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Best copy traders with zero blowups in 12+ months?

Jul 24, 2026 1 reply
CT
ChainRated Team
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Honest answer first: nobody can give you a verified 12-month blow-up history for an anonymous copy trader, including us.

Exchanges publish a rolling 30-day window of daily performance. A blow-up from four months ago, followed by thirty calm days, is invisible in that window — to us, to you, and to any site claiming otherwise. If a rating site shows you a precise count of a trader's historical liquidations, the right question is where the number came from.

What we can do is start counting from the day we begin watching. We archive every tracked trader's daily curve, so from that point on a reset cannot hide, and the observation window on each profile grows daily and is stated openly ("archived since \<date\>, N days observed").

In the meantime, the closest proxy on a profile is the reconstructed drawdown and the worst single day. A trader who has never taken a −40% day in the period we have observed has at least not shown you that behaviour yet — which is a weaker statement than "zero blowups in 12 months", and it is the strongest one the data supports.

Jul 24, 2026
NE
netsale Founder

"Zero blow-ups in 12 months" is a filter I used myself for a while, and I would not use it again. It selects two kinds of trader and cannot tell them apart: the one who manages risk, and the one whose market simply hasn't arrived yet. Twelve calm months on a trader who runs 50x is not evidence of discipline, it is evidence of twelve lucky months.

What I look at now is the opposite end - the worst thing that ever happened to the account, and what the trader did in the month after it. Sizing down and grinding back is a completely different animal from doubling up to get even, and you can see which one it was in the curve. A trader with one honest blow-up two years ago and calm behaviour since tells you more than a spotless year.

Aug 22, 2026

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