THE PROCESS, EXPLAINED
Connected trades. Your account.
Copy trading allows eligible trades placed by a strategy to be replicated in your own trading account. Automating the entry does not remove your responsibility to understand the exposure.
From a strategy to a copied trade
Trade instructions
- Sonic strategy
- CopyX
- Tag Markets account
- Copied trade
Your funds
- Your funds
- Your broker account
Your deposit is held in your broker account, subject to the broker’s terms. It is not paid to CopyTradingHQ or the strategy operator.
The connection passes trading instructions. Your broker account records the resulting activity. A copied trade can differ from the source because of account settings, timing, available margin or execution conditions.
SEPARATE ROLES. CLEAR RESPONSIBILITIES.
Who does what?
CopyTradingHQ
Education, analytics, onboarding guidance and affiliate/referral website. We do not hold your trading funds.
Sonic
The strategy being followed. Separate from CopyTradingHQ.
CopyX
The system connecting eligible strategy trades to your account.
Tag Markets
The broker and trading account provider.
You
Own and control your broker account, subject to platform and account terms.
Where your money sits
Your funds sit in your own broker account, subject to the account agreement. CopyTradingHQ is an education, analytics and referral website; it does not accept your trading deposit. Account ownership does not remove broker, custody or withdrawal risk.
Scaling changes the trade size
Position sizes can be adjusted to account configuration and allocation. A trade on a provider account is not automatically the same dollar exposure in a follower account. Understand the platform’s sizing rules and amplification before connecting.
The historical follower-equivalent model on this site is a documented calibration. It is not a guarantee that a live account will reproduce the same percentage return.
Fees, in plain sight
Performance fee: 30% of qualifying profits. The source historical model uses this rate. Check current platform terms before activation, including how qualifying profits are defined and when a fee is taken.
This is a fee illustration, not an earnings prediction. Other applicable trading, funding, conversion or withdrawal charges depend on account terms. No high-water mark or loss carryforward is assumed from missing information.
Liquidity-provider commission
Liquidity-provider commission: $10 per lot of gold traded, per trade. This is separate from the 30% performance fee and is based on trading volume.
For example, one trade of 1 lot incurs $10 in this commission. The charge applies to the traded volume, regardless of whether the trade is profitable.
The source workbook does not separately identify this commission. Whether it is already included in its P/L and monthly returns remains unconfirmed; the historical figures are preserved without an additional deduction.
Deposits, withdrawals and the 30-day clock
Adding funds
Deposits can be made using fiat currency or cryptocurrency through the methods supported in your account.
Where withdrawals can go
Withdrawals can be made to supported crypto wallets or EU bank accounts. UK bank withdrawals are not currently supported.
Access to profits and your initial investment
Profits can be withdrawn at any time, provided they have not been reinvested. The initial investment becomes eligible for withdrawal after 30 days.
Reinvesting profits restarts the 30-day withdrawal clock. Consider this before choosing to reinvest.
Withdrawal eligibility does not mean instant payment. Available funds, verification, fees and processing requirements remain subject to current CopyX/Tag Markets account terms. Trading losses can reduce the amount available to withdraw.
Understanding amplification
Amplification describes trading capacity relative to deposited capital. The example below is conditional: it applies only if an eligible account’s current terms provide this allocation.
Educational example · not an available-account promise- $1,000Deposited capital
- 24×Trading allocation
- $24,000Trading capacity
The extra trading capacity is not withdrawable cash. It is not money given to the investor. Capacity alone does not establish the exposure of every trade or a fixed return multiplier.
Gains are magnified.
More exposure can increase a gain from a favourable movement.
Losses are magnified.
The same exposure increases sensitivity to adverse movement and liquidation thresholds.
The historical calculator does not multiply reconciled returns by 24. Its recorded follower-equivalent methodology is separate from this educational illustration.
Read the amplification guide →When a trade loses
A loss reduces the account’s equity. Depending on exposure and account terms, further adverse movement may lead to positions being closed. Multiple small wins do not rule out a larger loss, and short holding times do not make a strategy low risk.
When you stop copying
Stopping new copying and closing existing positions may be separate actions. Check which positions remain open, what fees are due and whether withdrawal or lock-up conditions apply. Do not assume a disconnect button returns the account to cash.