Insights · Copy Trading
Published: 22 August 2026 · by the QuantGovernor team
Copy trading is a broker service that automatically replicates the trades of one trading account (the master) onto another (the follower), in proportion to each account's capital. The follower account belongs to you, stays in your name at your broker, and you can stop the copy at any moment. What follows is how the mechanism actually works — including the parts that marketing pages usually skip.
Every copy relationship involves exactly two roles. The master account is where the strategy runs: in our case, algorithmic systems executing on our own capital. The follower account is a normal trading account, opened by you at a partner broker, that subscribes to the master. The broker's copy engine watches the master and mirrors its activity onto every connected follower.
Two things never happen in this setup: the strategy provider never holds your funds, and you never lose the ability to intervene. The follower account is yours — you can deposit, withdraw, disconnect the copy or close positions at any time.
When the master opens a trade, the copy engine calculates an equivalent position for each follower. The standard method is proportional sizing: if the master risks a position sized for its balance, a follower with half the master's capital receives a position of roughly half the size. This scaling is what lets one strategy serve accounts of different sizes without changing its risk profile.
Replication also applies to trade management: stop losses, take profits, partial closes and modifications on the master are mirrored on the followers. The follower does not "re-decide" anything — which is precisely the point of copying a systematic strategy: no manual interference, no emotional overrides.
A follower account almost never matches the master's published performance exactly. This is normal, and the reasons are mechanical:
On liquid instruments and reasonably sized accounts these differences are usually small — but they exist, and any provider claiming identical results is describing something other than reality.
Copying is not "all or nothing". Our partner brokers run their copy service on a professional social-trading engine for MetaTrader, which exposes a set of controls on the follower's side — yours. Depending on the broker's configuration, you can typically:
And the point worth repeating, because it is the foundation of the whole model: the money is always in your name, on your account, at your broker — and the management of that account remains entirely yours. We provide the strategy; every permission you grant is revocable by you, at any moment, without asking anyone.
Each of our systems declares a minimum account size — not as a commercial threshold, but as a replication constraint. Below a certain capital, proportional sizing collides with the broker's minimum lot: positions can no longer be scaled down accurately, so the follower's risk per trade becomes higher than the master's, not equal to it. A minimum capital requirement is there to keep your copy faithful to the risk profile you saw on the track record.
Copy trading is not a managed account: nobody has discretionary power over your funds. It is not an investment fund: there is no pooling of capital. And it is not a guarantee of replicating past returns: it replicates future trades, whatever their outcome. The published track record tells you how the strategy has behaved so far — past performance is not indicative of future results, and that sentence is not a formality.
A follower account carries the full market risk of the strategy it copies: drawdowns on the master become drawdowns on your account, in proportion. Leverage amplifies both directions. Technical risk exists too — a disconnection between master and follower can leave positions unmanaged until the connection is restored. Before connecting any capital, read the strategy's declared risk limits and our Risk Disclosure, and only allocate capital you can afford to put at risk.
Every strategy we publish runs on a real-money account tracked by Myfxbook, an independent third-party service, with a public account number. That is the standard we suggest applying to anyone — us included: no verifiable live track record, no copy. You can compare the three systems, their declared risk and their minimum capital on the strategies page, and see the connection process step by step on Get started.
Questions about a specific setup? Contact us — we answer personally.