The CopyScore (0–100) weighs the things a copier can actually check before depositing: regulation (30), scale (10), age (10), platform-side cost (15), track-record transparency (12), risk controls (12) and features/access (11). Click a row to open the platform; hover any score, minimum, fee, leverage or regulation cell for the detail behind it. Provider-set performance fees are shown but not scored, because they change with the trader you pick.
CopyScore is a research score, not a forecast. A high score means a platform is easier to verify and harder to blow up at the company level — the trader you copy can still lose money.
A copy-trading bill has two very different halves. The platform may charge a subscription, management fee, spread markup or per-trade fee; the trader usually takes a share of profit, from 10% on crypto exchanges to 50% on some broker-copy venues. Move the sliders to see what both halves take from a year of copying. The matrix follows the region filter at the top of the page.
Model: annual subscription and strategy fees × 12; $1 per-trade fees × 40 new positions; spread cost scaled by account size. The performance fee uses one representative share per platform, so your actual trader may cost more or less. Excludes tax, funding and FX conversion.
| Platform | Fee model | Fixed / yr | Performance / yr +20% |
Total / yr | % of profit | Verdict |
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The patterns that hold across the board, not just at the top of it.
You link your own account to another trader’s and the platform mirrors their positions in proportion to your balance. The money stays in your account, and you can stop copying at any time. You are still taking real market risk: if the trader loses, you lose.
On this board eToro leads with a CopyScore of 97: full licences in the UK, EU, Australia and the US, a $200 entry per trader and no performance fee on CopyTrader. Vantage and HFM follow at 91 for broker-copy, while Axi is the strongest pure FX option. “Best” still depends on where you live and what you want to copy.
Seventeen of the 23 platforms have a minimum of $100 or less. Axi has no account minimum, several crypto exchanges start at 10 USDT, and eToro asks for $200 per trader. At the other end, DupliTrade starts around $2,000 and Collective2 at $5,000. A low minimum makes a strategy cheaper to test; it does not make the risk smaller.
Expect a performance fee set by the trader, commonly 10–30% of profit and as much as 50% on some broker-copy venues. The platform may add a monthly subscription, a management fee, a spread markup or a per-trade charge — eToro charges $1 per new copied position. Six platforms add no platform fee of their own, but the trader’s share still applies. Use the calculator above to compare both halves.
Ten platforms hold a full licence, 11 are partly regulated and two have no major licence. Regulation protects the way client money is held and how the platform operates; it does not protect you from a bad trading strategy. Negative balance protection applies to CFD accounts at regulated brokers, not to crypto positions. Never copy more than you can afford to lose.
Only four platforms on this list explicitly accept US clients: eToro, Collective2, MQL5 Signals and Myfxbook AutoTrade. The major crypto exchanges and most CFD brokers do not. US rules also vary by state, and eToro’s US copy-trading product is built around stocks and ETFs rather than leveraged CFDs.
CopyScore is a 0–100 research score: regulation 30, scale 10, age 10, platform-side cost 15, track-record transparency 12, risk controls 12 and features/access 11. It measures how easy a platform is to verify and how well the company side is protected. It is not a forecast of returns, and a high-scoring platform can still host a trader who loses money.
Yes. The account and positions remain in your name, and you can stop copying or close positions yourself. The difference is that entries and exits happen automatically while copying is active, so you cannot approve each trade. Check whether the platform lets you set a stop-loss, cap the amount copied per trade or pause new positions without closing existing ones.