ChainRatedIs Bybit copy trading profitable?
We keep our own daily record of every copy trader in this catalogue — 2084 of them, read from the exchange through read-only keys. That record answers the question differently than the number on the trader’s card does. Everything below is counted from it, and recounted the day it changes.
Last recounted .
The short answer
For fewer than half of them — 1019 of 2075 copy traders are in profit across their whole history with us, a median of -0.7%. That is the honest headline, and it is not the useful part.
The useful part is that the number you see before you copy someone is not that one. The exchange publishes a short recent window; we keep the whole curve. Between those two sits every account that is having a good week after a ruinous year.
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647 traders look profitable and are not
Of the 2061 traders where we hold both figures, 647 (31.4%) are green on the window the exchange shows while their full record with us is negative. Not a handful of outliers — that is the share of everyone we can compare on both.
Of the 2061 traders we can compare on both the window and the record:
- 65.2%look profitable on the window the exchange publishes
- 49.4%are profitable across the whole record
- 192have wiped out an account, yet show a green week today
- 458fell 70%+ from their peak, and still show a green week
What that gap looks like
Four real accounts from the catalogue, no names: the point is the shape of the gap, not a pillory. Left is their whole record with us, right is the week on display.
| Full record | Week on display |
|---|---|
| -438.6% | +45.5% |
| -399.9% | +280.1% |
| -399.3% | +303.1% |
| -393.9% | +8.8% |
297 of them have lost an account entirely
That is 14.3% of the catalogue, and between them 399 separate wipe-outs — one account managed 5 of them. A wipe-out is the one event a leaderboard cannot show you, because the curve starts again with the deposit: same name, same page, fresh chart. We can show it only because we wrote down the equity every day while it happened.
The fall you inherit
Copying someone means copying their worst stretch, not their average one. Across 2075 measured curves the median deepest fall is 39.3%: that is the middle of the catalogue, and the middle is not what hurts you. 889 traders (42.8%) have fallen at least 50% from a peak, 683 (32.9%) at least 70%, and at the ninetieth percentile the deepest fall is 100.0% — one trader in ten has lived through a fall at least that deep.
What to check before you copy anyone
- Find the start of the curve. If it begins a few weeks ago on an account that has been trading for a year, you are looking at what came after the reset, not at the record.
- Ask for the worst fall, not the return. A 70% drawdown does not become tolerable because the year ended green; you would have had to sit through it with your own money.
- Treat a good week as a week. On this catalogue it tells you almost nothing about the year: 65.2% are green on the window, 49.4% on the record.
How these numbers are made
Every figure here is counted from our own archive, which records each trader’s equity daily rather than reading the summary the exchange prints. Traders whose curve we have not reconstructed are absent from the drawdown counts entirely — an unmeasured account is not a safe one, and we do not let it quietly improve an average. The full method, including what these numbers cannot tell you, is on the methodology page.
Related reading: what the copy-trader section actually shows, copy trading versus signals, and the full catalogue of 2084 traders.
This page counts; it does not explain the mechanics. Those are in the copy-trading guides — fees, custody, the drawdown you inherit, and what happens when a leader changes what they trade.