TBanque’s social features are what makes our platform unique in the online trading space. Both the CopyTrader™ system and Smart Portfolios investment strategies lean on TBanque’s user-base, which numbers over 20 million users from 140 countries, and are designed to help traders explore new ways to generate profit.
How Does CopyTrader Work?
The CopyTrader system is one of the key reasons the platform is considered among the leaders of the fintech revolution. The general idea of the CopyTrader tool is pretty simple: Choose the traders you want to copy, decide on the amount you wish to invest, and copy everything they do automatically, and in real-time, with one click of a button.
Beyond the basic concept of copy trading, there are quite a few additional elements to the system.
Before we begin, we will refer to:
- ”Copied Trader” as the trader you are investing in (copying)
- “Copier” as the user who is doing the copy action (i.e. yourself)
Here are a few important points you should take into consideration before copying:
- The minimum amount to invest in a trader is $200.
- The maximum amount of traders you can copy simultaneously is 100.
- The maximum amount you can invest in one trader is $2,000,000.
- The minimum amount for a copied trade is $1; trades below this amount will not be opened.
- If you close a copied trade manually, the funds from this position will be credited back to your copy balance (the amount allocated to copy that person that is not invested in open positions).
CopyTrader – Copying all trades
The CopyTrader system gives copiers the option to copy all of the currently open trades of the copied trader. Copiers choosing this method will have the existing open trades of the trader they are copying opened, with the following terms:
- The existing open positions will be opened in the copier’s account with the market rates available at the time of copying (not the rates at which the original trades were opened).
- The trades will have the same stop loss (SL) and take profit (TP) as the original trade.
- They will mirror the Copied Trader’s future actions including changes in SL’s and TP and closing of the trade, from the moment you begin copying them. If the copied trader extends their SL by adding more funds to a position, your SL will adjust accordingly. However, your position amount will stay the same as its initial amount. Therefore, you may sometimes see differences in gain percentage between your copy account and the copied trader’s account.
- You will be able to close a specific copied trade without closing the copy account.
- If the Copied Trader opens a position in markets that are closed during the time they are copied (market break for example), the system will open a Market Order for the copier. Once the market is open, the order will execute into a position with the first market rate.
- To see all of the trades copied from a single trader, go to your portfolio and click the Copied Trader’s name.
Please note: The trades will all open in your account at the same time. You will see them at a slight loss which reflects the spread between the Buy and Sell rates, to show you a real-time representation of the funds you will receive if you close the trade. New trades will open at the same rates as the copied trader opens them, and use the Realised equity (balance + invested funds) as the basis for the proportions of copied trades. For example, a trade opened with 10% of the Copied Trader’s realised equity will open a trade in your copy account with 10% of the realised equity in the copy relationship.
However the proportion can change when the copied trader changes their available balance – this can occur when the Copied Trader makes a deposit or withdrawal. When any of these events occur, there is a change in funds in the Copied Trader’s account, and you might notice trades that have a different proportion than before. When the Copied Trader closes all open trades, the trade size proportions between their account and the copier’s account are reset (equal once more).
**These terms and conditions are subject to change at TBanque’s discretion, at any time.
CopyTrader – Copying only new trades
Copiers choosing this method will only replicate new trades that the Copied Trader opens after the copy action starts. The following terms will apply:
- Only trades opened after the copy action started will open in the copier’s account.
- New trades will open at the same rate as the copied trader opens them.
- The proportions of the new trades will be calculated from the Realised equity of the Copied Trader (account balance + invested funds).
- The trades will have the same SL and TP as the original trades.
- All of the Copied Trader’s actions will automatically be duplicated in the copier’s account, including changes in SL’s and TP’s and closing of the trade. If the Copied Trader extends their SL by adding more funds to a position, your SL will adjust accordingly. However, your position amount will stay the same as its initial amount. Therefore, you may sometimes see differences in gain percentage between your copy account and the Copied Trader’s account.
- You can close a specific copied trade without closing the copy account.
- To see all of the trades copied from a single trader, go to your portfolio and click the Copied Trader’s name.
Please note: The proportion can change when the Copied Trader changes their available balance. This can occur when the copied trader makes a deposit or withdrawal or closes an old trade that was opened before you started copying them (if you chose not to copy the already opened trades). When any of these events occur, you might get trades that have a different proportion than before.
**These terms and conditions are subject to change at TBanque’s discretion, at any time.
Copy Stop-Loss (CSL)
CSL is a feature that gives you the ability to effectively manage your Smart Portfolio, by providing risk management across each copy relationship based on real-time Profit/Loss values. It is essentially an automated risk control system that allows you to set controls for the entire copy relationship, at a dollar value.
The system will automatically set the CSL at 40%, as a default, of your total invested copy value per copy relationship. Therefore, you will now be able to assume that when the copy value has reduced by 40%, the CSL will trigger and terminate that copy relationship, returning the remaining funds to your balance. The range that you can manually set your CSL at is between 5% to 95%. The 5% value is a true ‘safety net’ that should only trigger when nearly all the money in that copy relationship is gone.
For example: Trader A is copied by Trader B with $1,000. The CSL is set to 60% of the equity to return to the account, which in this case is $600. Once the current equity, including the profit/loss over all trades, is reduced to $600, the whole copy account will be closed, and the remaining funds (60% of the original copy amount) will be returned to Trader B’s balance.
So, what happens when CSL triggers?
If your copy relationship has unrealised losses of 40% of your allocated funds, the CSL will trigger, and all the positions in that relationship will close. The history tab on the platform contains a “Close By” column. The closed trades will be labelled in this column as “CSL”.
The CSL value can be adjusted to a value of minimum 5% and maximum 95% as a safety net. Please note that the system will not allow you to reduce the CSL to a value that is so small that it could trigger the closure of the CopyTrader relationship immediately.
As an example: Let’s say you are copying a trader with $1,000 and you are currently losing $300, while your CSL value is the default 60%, and you want to adjust the CSL value. You will not be able to set it for a value of 70% ($300 in this case) or less as this would trigger the immediate closure of the CopyTrader relationship and all the trades under it. In this case, the maximum CSL you would be able to set is 65%.
Keep in mind that the CSL value will change if you change your copy amount. Adding or removing funds from the copied trader will trigger a recalculation of the CSL value as a percentage of the new copy amount.
Say, for example; you’re copying a trader with $1,000. Your investment in this trader has lost $900 of its value, but you still believe in this copy relationship. When you allocate another $1,000 to that trader – the CSL value will now be updated and calculated on the new $2,000 total allocated to copying this trader. Remember you can update the CSL at any time.
Copied Trades SL
The CSL was put in place to limit your overall exposure to any one trader. Because your copied trades are protected by the CSL, we can allow for more flexibility when it comes to their Stop Losses (SL).
With regular trades, whenever you increase the SL, funds are added to the trade from the account balance to represent the extra funds needed to support it.
With copied trades, whenever the Copied Trader extends their SL, there are no extra funds deducted from the overall copy amount. Therefore, any one trade can go 200%, even 300% into loss, which gives it the flexibility to potentially recover the losses without being closed by the SL, and at the same time, leaves the copy amount with enough balance to cover additional trades. However, if the Copied Trader reaches your set CSL regarding an unrealised loss overall, the entire copy relationship will be closed.
This difference creates several discrepancies between the copied trades and the original trades:
We don’t add funds into copied trades. Therefore the percentage of available copy balance might be greater than the balance of the copied trader.
The copied trade’s gain/loss is calculated according to the original amount invested in the trade.
Pause Copy
With CopyTrader, we are proud to present “Pause Copy”, a feature that allows you to stop copying a trader without actually closing all the currently opened positions.
“Pause copy” can be activated from the portfolio page on TBanque by clicking on the settings button and “Pause Copy.”
When “Pause copy” is activated there will be no new trades opened under that copy relationship. However, all the currently opened trades will still be copying the SL/TP and close actions from the Copied Trader.
How do Smart Portfolios work?
TBanque’s Smart Portfolios are thematic investment instruments programmed for long-term double-digit return. Each Smart Portfolio aggregates various assets or a group of traders and is constantly optimised by machine-learning algorithms.
General Smart Portfolios considerations:
- The minimum investment amount is as low as $500.
- The default Stop Loss for a Smart Portfolio is set at 10%.
- The weights allocation of each Smart Portfolio can change over time.
Market Smart Portfolios
Market Smart Portfolios aggregate various assets together in a single portfolio, following a predetermined market strategy or focusing on a specific market segment. TBanque’s financial experts determine the composition of each Smart Portfolio, in conjunction with a machine-learning algorithm programmed to reduce risk and increase profit.
For example, the BigTech Smart Portfolio groups major companies from the tech sector, offering an asset for traders who wish to invest in the industry as a whole.
Top Trader Smart Portfolios
Leaning on the CopyTrader tool, Top Trader Smart Portfolios group successful traders together in different portfolios. Similar to Market Smart Portfolios, the traders within are selected by TBanque’s investment committee and a sophisticated algorithm which is looking for specific trading attributes that are optimised for profit.
For example, the GainersQtr Smart Portfolio groups investors who have shown consistent returns, and who are likely to turn a profit over the next quarter, according to predetermined parameters which the Smart Portfolio’s algorithm takes into account. The composition of the Smart Portfolio is updated periodically, to maintain low risk and increase the probability of profit.
For more information about Smart Portfolios, please refer to the Smart Portfolios page.
We hope this article has helped you gain a clearer understanding of our Copy systems. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us via our @CustomerService wall on TBanque, or learn more on our help page.
