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# 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**](/graphdex-docs/wallet-predictions/wallet-overview.md) 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.
{% hint style="danger" %}
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.
{% endhint %}
## 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.
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