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Difference between copy trading and signals explained

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Copy trading: you allocate an amount to a master trader, and your account mirrors their positions automatically, sized to your allocation. You keep custody — the master never touches your funds — but leverage and position sizing are theirs, and their worst day becomes yours proportionally.

Signals: a channel publishes calls (symbol, direction, entry, targets, stop) and you place the trades yourself. You control sizing and whether to take a call at all; you also carry the execution risk — a signal whose entry never fills is not a trade, and roughly a third of everything we replay never fills.

Why it matters here: the two need completely different verification. Copy traders have an equity curve, so we score them from it (Life Score). Channels have no curve — they have published claims, so we replay every signal against real candles and report how often price actually moved 2% their way before the stop.

Ratings live in two places: Copy Traders and Signal Providers. Neither is a recommendation.

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netsaleFounder

Having lost money at both, here is what I'd add from the practical side.

With Telegram signals, most of the outcome is not in the call - it is in your strategy. Channels advertise "92% accuracy", "88% accuracy", and that number is whatever its owner decided to count. How we measure it here, so channels can actually be compared: we replay every published signal against historical 1-minute futures candles, and a signal passes when price moves 2% in the called direction before hitting the channel's own stop, within 30 days of publication. Signals whose entry never filled are excluded rather than counted as wins. One fixed yardstick for everyone - it answers "how often was the call right", not "how much would you have made". How much you'd have made depends on your sizing, your leverage, and which calls you take, and that is exactly why the backtest tool exists: run a channel's real signal history under your own rules before risking a dollar on it.

With copy trading, the one thing to understand is the cycle. Deposits get zeroed - it happens to most traders eventually, and the headline numbers usually restart from the reset. If you follow anyone, know where in their cycle you are entering, and take profit out along the way. That is my advice as someone who has been through a few of these: always withdraw your profit. A blown cycle only takes what is still sitting on it.

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