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How Copy Trading Works, Step by Step

Copy trading is a relay: a provider's trade is written down, sent to a server, received by your terminal and placed again at your size, and its close travels the same way. This paper shows the five steps, the relay as a baton passed through four hands, one real EURUSD trade traced through the steps with the clock and the one-pip difference the second costs, the copied trade as a row in your Trade tab, and the Options screen where the steps are switched on and sized. After reading it you can follow a copied trade from the provider's fill to your own row and say where each second and each pip went.

Difficulty
Beginner
Reading time
5 min
Pages
8
Reviewed by
Saman Rahbar

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Copy trading, in five steps

Copy trading works in five steps. You subscribe, hitching your account to a provider and setting your size. The provider trades: 1.00 lot, the unit a trade is sized in, of EURUSD bought at 1.16526, the real 10:00 open of 25 August 2026. The copy travels: the trade is sent to a server, which sends it on to your terminal. Your terminal trades: 0.10 lot bought at 1.16527, a second and a pip later. And the close travels too: the provider closes at 1.16695, the 18:00 open, and your copy closes at the same price. Every step is a message. Nothing is moved between the accounts.

A baton passed along a track

Picture a baton passed along a track through four hands: the provider's terminal, the signal server, your terminal, your broker. The baton is the trade written down, instrument, direction, size as a share, and the price it was filled at. Each hand passes it on unchanged, a second or so from the first hand to the last. Copy trading is a relay. Nothing in the baton is money; it is a description that the last hand turns back into a trade, on your account, at your size.

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