Filters & Risks

Use the filters to narrow your scope. Use this page to cap your exposure before you press Copy.

Copy-Trading hides a lot of risk behind a single button. The filters above the table are how you constrain what you see; the discipline below is how you constrain what you do.

Filters

• Sub-tab — Top (discovery) / Active Copy (running) / History (closed).

• Category — All / Politics / Sports / Crypto / Finance / Tech / Culture / Weather / Economy.

• Timeframe — 24h / 30d / All time.

Useful combinations

• Top + Crypto + 30d — meaningful sample of mid-frequency traders.

• Top + Politics + All time — long-window track record on election-cycle traders.

• Active Copy (no filter) — your full live exposure on one page.

• History + Crypto + 30d — recently closed crypto copies, what worked.

Combinations to avoid

• 24h + All — too short and too wide; rank is dominated by noise.

• All time + niche category — pulls in inactive traders whose history is no longer relevant.

Risks

Copy-Trading layers a few specific risks on top of regular prediction trading. Each one is worth a hard look before you start.

1. Survivorship bias

The Top board lists who survived. Traders who blew up are not there. A green leaderboard does not mean prediction-markets are easy — it means the losers are invisible.

Discipline: read History honestly. The losers in your own history are the most informative rows on the platform.

2. Sample-size illusion

A 90% win-rate over 5 closed positions is meaningless. A 60% win-rate over 200 is real.

Discipline: check the Closed column before trusting the percentage. Below ~30 closes, win-rate is decoration.

3. Strategy drift

A trader you copied for their Sports record may move into Crypto without telling you. Your copy mirrors what they do, not what they did before.

Discipline: review Active Copy weekly. Stop copies whose trade tape no longer matches what you signed up for.

4. Position concentration

You copy 4 traders, all of whom hold the same side of the same big election. Your real exposure is 4x what you think.

Discipline: check Wallet → My Assets for the aggregate. Diversify by trader and by market.

5. Latency / order-quality

Your copy fills happen after theirs. On thin markets your fill quality is worse than theirs by definition.

Discipline: copy traders who trade liquid markets. On thin markets the slippage eats their edge before it reaches you.

6. Fees and economic terms

Copy-Trading mechanics have platform-defined fees and possibly performance-share. The terms are visible on the Copy modal. Read them.

Discipline: model the after-fee P/L, not the gross.

A sizing rule of thumb

• Copy size per trader = a fraction of your bankroll you can afford to lose entirely.

• Number of concurrent copies = small enough that you can read every Active Copy row in one sitting.

• When in doubt — smaller, fewer, longer.

Copy-Trading is not a financial recommendation engine. It is a routing tool: it lets you assign your capital to other people's decisions. The decisions are theirs; the losses are yours.

FAQs

Are there per-category exposure caps?

Per-category caps are not exposed in the current build. Cap yourself manually by tracking aggregate exposure in Wallet.

What if I notice the trader I copy is making bad trades but Open P/L is still green?

That is the most dangerous moment. Open P/L is mark-to-market, not realised. Closed P/L is what matters. Trust process over the scoreboard.

Can I opt out of specific categories on a copy?

Not per copy. The category filter narrows discovery; once you copy a trader you mirror their categories. Stop and pick a different trader if scope drifts.