The whole catalogue counted: how many copy traders look profitable on the short window an exchange prints, and what their full record says. See the numbers →
The marketing page shows a headline return. What you actually receive is an equity curve caught mid-motion, sometimes deep underwater on a position you cannot see. Here is how to size that risk before you press connect.
Across 19,168 deduplicated archived channel messages there is exactly one mention of an API key, and it is a warning. Here is where the money sits in each arrangement, and what can take it.
The exchange publishes the numbers, so verification is not the question here. The question is what a good-looking curve leaves out — and 76 of our 1,186 traders have already answered it.
The difference is not that one is safer. It is which of the four decisions in a trade someone else has already made for you, and what you can still check afterwards.
Copy trading is simple to switch on and easy to misjudge. What actually happens to your money, what you still control, and how to check a trader before you follow them.