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Trading Strategies

Copy Trading

Automatically replicating the trades of experienced traders.

Full Definition

Copy trading allows you to automatically replicate the trades of experienced traders or systematic strategies in your own account. When the signal provider buys, your account buys. When they sell, your account sells. Position sizes are typically scaled to your account balance so the risk percentage matches the master account. This enables traders without time or expertise to participate in forex while learning from proven approaches.

Copy trading comes in several forms. MAM (Multi-Account Manager) and PAMM (Percentage Allocation Management Module) accounts pool capital and allocate returns proportionally. Signal services push trade instructions to subscriber terminals that execute through a bridge or EA. Social trading platforms like Myfxbook Autotrade, ZuluTrade, and proprietary broker platforms let subscribers choose from many signal providers. The common thread is automation: once connected, trades execute without manual intervention from the subscriber.

For example, if a copy trading subscriber has a $10,000 account connected to a master that enters 1 standard lot on EUR/USD at 1.0850, the scaled position on the subscriber might be 0.1 lots (proportional to the master's account size). A 50 pip winner produces $50 on the subscriber account and $500 on the master, keeping returns proportionally equivalent. Risk is similarly scaled, so drawdown percentages match between accounts regardless of balance differences.

SteadyFlowFX is built specifically as a copy trading service, with the 9 algorithms and 8 currency pairs designed to replicate reliably across subscriber accounts. The verified Myfxbook track record shows how the strategy has performed on real capital over multiple years — giving prospective subscribers concrete, independently verified data rather than simulated or cherry-picked results to evaluate before committing.

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