Social Trading vs Copy Trading: What Is the Difference?
Social trading means following and talking with other traders on a shared platform; copy trading is the automated part, where their trades open on your account. Social Trade Hub is a copy trading tool: it copies the signals and accounts you choose, and lets signal providers share their trades with subscribers.
What social trading is
On a social trading network, traders publish their positions, comment and are ranked by results. You read, compare and decide. It often happens inside one broker’s platform.
What copy trading adds
Copy trading removes the manual step: when the source opens, changes or closes a trade, the same happens on your account, with your own lot size and risk limits.
Share your trades with your followers
If you are the trader others follow, the Trade Sharing Center lets you invite subscribers by email, see who is connected, set an expiry date for each one and revoke access at any time. A Shared Sender gives several subscribers the same source while you keep control of access.
To publish your trades in a Telegram channel instead, use the Telegram Forwarder.
The risks
Following a trader does not remove risk: losses are copied as well as gains. Check a long track record, start small and set a drawdown limit on each account.
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Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to automate your trading
No. Social trading is about following and discussing; copy trading executes the trades on your account automatically.
The tool can be reliable, but the trades carry market risk. Past results of a trader do not guarantee future ones.
Yes. The Trade Sharing Center manages your subscribers, their access and its expiry date.
No. With a trade copier or a Telegram copier, you copy to your own accounts, at your own broker.
Yes. The Telegram Forwarder posts the trades of your MT4, MT5, cTrader and other accounts to your Telegram channel.
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