Someone else's trades, your account
Copy trading platforms, compared
Eight of the nine brokers we track offer some way to follow another trader, but under three different models. RoboForex, LiteFinance, Deriv, Tickmill, Libertex and Bybit run their own copy platforms; FxPro does it through cTrader; Alpari runs PAMM, where money is pooled and managed rather than copied. On CopyFX the provider sets a performance fee of 0–50%.
Conditions checked against each broker's own pages
Who runs what
Grouped by model, because the models are not interchangeable: a broker's own copy platform, copying built into cTrader, and a PAMM account answer different questions. Within each group, brokers that publish their terms come first.
| Broker | Service | Model | Published terms | What you control |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RoboForex | CopyFX | Own platform | The strategy provider sets a Performance Fee of 0–50% of subscribers' overall profit, paid out every 1, 2 or 4 weeks; other schemes charge per copied trade or a weekly subscription. To share a strategy the provider must deposit at least 100 USD | Subscribe, set your own subscription terms, unsubscribe |
| Deriv | Deriv Nakala, plus copying on Deriv cTrader | Own platform | Requires a Deriv MT5 Standard account; strategy providers earn a fee per copier | Copy proportionally by equity, mirror the provider's size, or use a fixed size; set soft drawdown limits that stop new copying and hard limits that close positions |
| LiteFinance | Social Trading | Own platform | The trader sets the commission and it is shown in the ranking; LiteFinance puts the average around 20%, charged from the follower's account after rollover | Copy by percentage of the provider's volume, from 1% to 100,000%, or by the ratio of your allocated funds to theirs |
| Tickmill | Tickmill Social Trading | Own platform | A strategy provider needs an account balance of at least 250 USD or equivalent | Follow a provider and copying starts once the setup is active |
| Libertex | Copy Trading on the Libertex platform | Own platform | Following a master account is offered at no additional cost; the platform's own trading commission and overnight fees still apply to every copied position | Allocate an amount, monitor in real time, stop copying at any point |
| Bybit | Copy Trading, on crypto and on the MT5 CFD account | Own platform | Terms not captured from its own pages | Follow master traders from the exchange interface |
| FxPro | cTrader Copy | Through cTrader | Copying is a cTrader feature rather than an FxPro product; strategy fees are set inside cTrader | Filter providers by performance, risk, instruments and timeframe; allocate to several at once and stop with immediate effect |
| Alpari | PAMM accounts | PAMM | Not copying: funds are allocated to a Strategy Manager and profits — or losses — are shared proportionally between investors | Withdraw part or all of the investment at any time |
| ForTrade | — | None found | No copy or social trading service found on its site | — |
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Read from each broker's own pages on 24 August 2026. Where a cell says terms were not captured, the broker runs the service but does not publish the numbers where we could read them — we leave that visible rather than filling it from someone else's review.
Three products share the name
A broker's own copy platform is the common one: CopyFX at RoboForex, Social Trading at LiteFinance and Tickmill, Nakala at Deriv, copy trading inside the Libertex platform, copy trading at Bybit. You keep your own account, choose providers from a public ranking, and their trades are repeated on your account until you stop them.
Copying through the terminal is the second. FxPro does not run a copy product of its own — the feature belongs to cTrader, which several brokers offer, so the provider list and the fee arrangements come from the platform rather than the broker. LiteFinance and Deriv also run cTrader alongside their own systems.
PAMM is the third, and it is not copying. In Alpari's PAMM accounts money is pooled with a Strategy Manager who trades the pool, and profits or losses are divided proportionally between investors. Nothing is mirrored onto an account of your own, and what you can control afterwards is the size of your allocation rather than any individual trade.
Who pays whom
In every model the person being copied is paid, and the follower pays. The clearest published terms are RoboForex's: on CopyFX the provider chooses a Performance Fee of up to 50% of subscribers' overall profit, settled every one, two or four weeks — the scheme its own page calls the most popular — with alternatives charging per copied trade or a flat weekly subscription. Providers themselves must deposit at least 100 USD before they can offer a strategy.
LiteFinance leaves the number to the trader as well, publishes it in the ranking, and says competition pushes the popular providers down to around 20%. Tickmill asks a provider for a balance of at least 250 USD. Deriv's Nakala pays providers per copier. Libertex offers following at no extra charge — with the ordinary trading commission and the overnight fee still applying to every copied position, which is where the cost actually sits.
Read a fee percentage as what it is: a share of the profit, on the profitable weeks, with no symmetric share of the losses. The provider's downside is reputation on a public ranking; yours is money.
What you can still control
Sizing is the first control and the one that decides how much a bad week costs. Deriv's Nakala offers three modes — proportional to your equity, mirroring the provider's size, or a fixed size per trade. LiteFinance lets you copy a percentage of the provider's volume, anywhere from 1% to 100,000%, or scale by the ratio of your funds to theirs. Mirroring a provider with a far larger account is how a small balance is emptied by a strategy that was working as intended.
The second is a stop. Deriv publishes two kinds: a soft drawdown limit that stops new trades being copied, and a hard limit that closes open positions. Every platform here lets you stop copying at will, but a manual stop requires you to be watching, and an automatic one does not.
The third is what happens to open positions when you stop, which is the least documented part everywhere. Check it before you need it rather than after.
What the provider ranking does not tell you
Every platform sells itself with a leaderboard, and a leaderboard is a survivor's list. It shows the providers who are currently up, sorted by the metric the platform chose, and the arithmetic that produced those returns is usually invisible: a strategy that never closes a losing position looks perfect until the week it does.
Alpari's PAMM listing is unusually honest by accident — its own public pages carry manager accounts with deeply negative returns next to the profitable ones, because the ranking lists what exists rather than what markets well. That is what the distribution actually looks like on every platform, whether or not the interface shows you the bottom of it.
Two questions worth asking before allocating: how long is the track record, and what did it do in the worst month rather than the best. A provider with two profitable months and no drawdown has not been tested; a provider whose fee is charged on profitable weeks has an incentive to take the kind of risk that produces them.
One thing this page is not about
Trade copier software — Tradesyncer, Duplikium, Traders Connect and similar — is a different product. It copies orders between accounts you already control or manage for others, sits outside the broker, and is bought by account managers rather than by people looking for someone to follow. If that is what you need, a broker comparison is the wrong list.
Questions people ask
Which brokers offer copy trading?
Of the nine we track, eight in some form: RoboForex through CopyFX, LiteFinance and Tickmill through their own Social Trading platforms, Deriv through Nakala and cTrader, Libertex and Bybit through their own platforms, FxPro through cTrader, and Alpari through PAMM accounts, which pool money rather than copy trades. We found no such service at ForTrade.
How much does copy trading cost?
The provider sets it, within limits the platform allows. On RoboForex's CopyFX the Performance Fee runs to 50% of subscribers' overall profit, paid every one, two or four weeks. LiteFinance publishes each trader's commission in the ranking and puts the average near 20%. Libertex charges nothing extra for following, but its ordinary trading and overnight fees still apply.
Is copy trading the same as a PAMM account?
No. Copy trading repeats a provider's trades on your own account, which you keep control of. A PAMM account pools your money with other investors under a Strategy Manager who trades the pool, and profits or losses are shared proportionally. Alpari runs PAMM rather than copy trading.
Can you lose money copy trading?
Yes, and the same way the provider does — their losing trades are copied as faithfully as the winning ones. The fee is charged on profit, so a provider is paid on good weeks while your losses stay yours. Sizing and drawdown limits are the only controls that reduce the damage.
How do you choose whom to copy?
Length of track record before size of return, and worst month before best. Leaderboards rank whoever is currently up, and a strategy that holds losing positions open looks flawless until it closes them. Check how the copying is sized as well: mirroring a much larger account is how small balances are wiped out.
Do you need a special account to copy trades?
Usually one of the broker's own. Deriv's Nakala needs a Deriv MT5 Standard account; RoboForex requires a CopyFX-enabled account, and a provider must deposit at least 100 USD; Tickmill asks a provider for a 250 USD balance. Followers generally need nothing beyond a funded trading account.
Copying somebody else does not change what the account costs — spread and commission are charged on every copied trade as on your own. If you would rather automate than follow, brokers running MetaTrader are compared on robots and VPS.