01/12/2019
What is strategy copying?
Introduction
cTrader Copy is a fully integrated cTrader feature and a flexible investment platform that allows copying trading strategies, as well as providing one’s own strategies for copying by other traders. It is an easy to use reliable solution with clearly defined fees system and transparent strategies information and history that offers an easy copying mechanism for better trading experience.
Trading activity is taking place on the server. Therefore, all the trades of the strategy provided are copied by the followers automatically without the need of running cTrader themselves simultaneously.
While using cTrader Copy, you may refer to the following notions:
Strategy - aggregated actions of a trader provided for copying by the Investors under the certain conditions.
Investor - a trader who allocates a certain amount of funds from his trading account for copying a strategy under the certain conditions (investing).
Copy Trading Account - an account created by allocating a certain amount of funds from a trading account for copying a strategy.
Strategy Provider - a trader who provides his trading strategy for copying by other traders.
Exceptions
When you start following a strategy, all the existing open positions of the strategy will be opened for your Copy Trading Account with the current market rates, and all the strategy actions will start being copied. In some cases, the copying mechanism may undergo some exceptions. For example:
In cases when the volume of a trade performed in a copied strategy is lower than the minimum trading volume allowed by the broker, the trade size will be defined based on the step allowed by the broker.
In cases when the volume of a trade performed in a copied strategy is higher than the maximum ticket size allowed by the broker, then no position will be opened.
In cases when the market is closed for a certain symbol trading in a strategy, the position for such symbol will be open only when the market is opened.
In case of insufficient margin on your account, the position will not be copied.
For more details see link below:
https://help.ctrader.com/ctrader-copy/index/intro
