How copy trading works.

Copy trading lets you allocate an amount of your own money to automatically replicate another investor’s portfolio. The positions are opened in your own account, sized in proportion to your allocation, and follow the investor’s future trades until you stop.

You choose a Popular Investor, decide how much to allocate, and start the copy. eToro proportionally mirrors that investor’s portfolio inside your account and automatically reflects their future buys and sells. You can pause, add or remove funds, or stop the copy at any time.

No. Under eToro’s current CopyTrader rules, only Popular Investors may be copied — participants accepted into eToro’s Popular Investor Program, which is built around standards of transparency, responsibility and consistency. Ordinary user accounts can’t be copied.

On eToro the minimum is currently $200 per Popular Investor you copy, and any individual position that would be worth less than $1 is skipped. Minimums are set by the platform and can change, so check eToro’s current terms before copying.

Yes. A copy performs the way the copied portfolio performs, including its losses and drawdowns. Copy trading does not remove market risk, and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

Copying on a regulated platform keeps the money in your own account and under your control, but “safe” never means risk-free: you take on the full market risk of the portfolio you copy. The most important safety step is understanding the investor’s strategy, risk and drawdown history before allocating anything.

Yes. When you stop a copy on eToro you choose what happens to the copied positions: sell them, or keep them in your account and manage them yourself. You can also pause a copy, which stops new trades from being opened while existing copied positions continue to follow the investor’s close instructions.

Their trades are reflected in your copy automatically and proportionally — a buy opens a proportional position in your account, and a sell closes the corresponding part of your copy. No approval request is sent first: the copy runs on the standing instruction you gave when you started it.

Yes. Copied positions sit in your own eToro account — it is not a managed account, and eToro has no discretion over it. You can even close individual copied positions yourself, although doing so means your copy may no longer match the investor’s allocation.

You choose when you start. eToro’s “Copy Open Trades” option (on by default) replicates the investor’s existing portfolio at current market prices — not their original entry prices. If you switch it off, only trades they open after you start copying are replicated.

eToro does not charge an extra fee for using CopyTrader — no management, membership or performance fees to the copier. Standard trading costs, such as spreads and any applicable transaction fees, still apply exactly as they would for manual trades.

Yes — eToro currently allows up to 100 Popular Investors to be copied at the same time, each with its own allocation. Spreading allocations across investors with different strategies is one way copiers manage risk.

Look at the full public record, not one good year: long-term track record, drawdowns, risk score, portfolio concentration, use of leverage and how consistent the strategy is. Then decide whether that strategy — including its bad periods — actually fits your goals and risk tolerance. Start with a full record: my track record and my strategy are public.