# Copy Trading

Copy trading lets you automatically replicate another trader's moves in your own wallet. When the traders you follow execute a buy or sell, ARCHONE mirrors that trade in your account proportionally — so you benefit from their success without needing to make your own decisions.

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## How Copy Trading Works

This section details the end-to-end flow of how copy trading operates.

### The Core Mechanism

1. **You follow a trader** — You choose someone to copy and set your copy amount.
2. **They make a trade** — The leader executes a buy or sell in their wallet.
3. **ARCHONE detects it** — The system detects the leader's completed trade.
4. **Mirrors in your wallet** — ARCHONE executes a proportionally-sized trade in your wallet.
5. **You get notified** — You receive a message with trade details.

### What Gets Copied

| Leader's Action | Your Action                            |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| Buys a token    | You buy proportionally                 |
| Sells a token   | You sell proportionally                |
| Sets TP/SL      | Not copied — your TP/SL is independent |

### What Doesn't Get Copied

* Limit orders
* DCA orders
* Sniper entries
* Manual decisions from other bots

Only direct buy/sell trades trigger copy actions.

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## Setting Up Copy Trading

### Step-by-Step

1. **Send `/copy`** — Opens the copy trading menu.
2. **Browse leaders** — See the leaderboard ranked by performance metrics.
3. **View leader stats** — Tap on any leader to see:
   * Win rate (% of profitable trades)
   * Average return per trade
   * Maximum drawdown
   * Total trades
   * Number of followers copying them
4. **Tap "Follow"** — Start copying a trader.
5. **Set your copy amount** — This is the maximum amount you'll deploy per trade (see Copy Ratio below).
6. **Confirm** — Copy trading is now active.

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## Copy Ratio

Your copy amount determines how much you allocate per copied trade relative to the leader.

### How It Works

If you set a copy amount of **0.5 SOL** and the leader trades **1 SOL**:

| Leader Trades | You Trade |
| ------------- | --------- |
| 1 SOL         | 0.5 SOL   |
| 0.5 SOL       | 0.25 SOL  |
| 0.1 SOL       | 0.05 SOL  |

Your trades are always proportional to the leader's, up to your copy amount limit.

### Minimum Copy Amount

If the leader trades less than 0.01 SOL, no copy trade triggers. This prevents spam from micro-trades.

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## Managing Copy Trades

### Viewing Your Copy Positions

Send `/copy` → **"Following"** to see:

* All traders you're currently copying
* Your total copy trades
* Combined P\&L from copy trading
* Status of each copy relationship (Active, Paused)

### Pausing Copy

Tap **Pause** on any leader to temporarily stop copying their trades. Pausing:

* Halts new copy trades from that leader
* Doesn't close any positions you already have from copied trades
* You can resume anytime

### Updating Copy Amount

Tap **Edit** on any leader to change your copy amount. Changes apply to future trades only.

### Unfollowing

Tap **Unfollow** to stop copying a trader. This:

* Immediately halts all new copy trades
* Does NOT sell any tokens you purchased from copying
* Your positions remain — they're your tokens now

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## Leader Selection

### What to Look For

| Metric              | Why It Matters                                                              |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Win Rate**        | Higher win rate = more winning trades. Look for 60%+ consistently.          |
| **Average Return**  | Higher avg return = bigger gains per trade. Look for positive returns.      |
| **Max Drawdown**    | Largest peak-to-trough loss. Lower drawdown = more consistent.              |
| **Trade Frequency** | How often they trade. Too frequent may mean overtrading.                    |
| **Followers**       | More followers = more people trust them. Not always a guarantee of quality. |

### Red Flags

Be cautious of leaders with:

* Very high trade frequency (>10 trades/day)
* 100% win rate (unrealistic over time)
* Extremely high average returns (may be unsustainable)
* Recent account creation with high stats (may be inflated)

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## Copy Trading and Risk Management

### You Control Your Size

Your copy amount sets a maximum per trade. Even if a leader trades 10 SOL, you only copy up to your limit.

### Your TP/SL is Independent

Leaders don't set your exit strategy. Configure your own TP/SL in `/settings` or per-trade to manage your risk.

### Diversification

You can follow multiple leaders simultaneously. This spreads your copy trades across different strategies.

### Stop Losses

Stop losses you set on your own positions are not affected by copy trading. If you manually set a stop loss on a copied position, it triggers independently of the leader's actions.

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## Notifications

When a copied trade executes, you receive a message with:

* Leader's name
* Token traded
* Action (BUY/SELL)
* Leader's amount
* Your copy amount
* Estimated fill price
* Transaction hash (once confirmed)

You can disable these notifications in `/settings`.

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## Copy Trading vs Manual Trading

| Aspect              | Copy Trading           | Manual Trading    |
| ------------------- | ---------------------- | ----------------- |
| **Decision making** | Leader decides         | You decide        |
| **Execution**       | Automatic              | Manual            |
| **Copy amount**     | Proportional to leader | You choose        |
| **Timing**          | Same as leader         | You choose        |
| **TP/SL**           | Your own settings      | Your own settings |
| **Effort**          | Low                    | High              |

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## Fees

Copy trading itself has no additional fees beyond:

* Normal trading fees from Jupiter swaps
* Any priority fees you set

Leaders may charge a commission if they're on the ARCHONE marketplace. This is set by the leader and shown before you follow.

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## Limitations

* Copy trades execute after the leader's trade — there's slight latency
* If your wallet doesn't have sufficient balance, the copy trade fails
* Copy trading doesn't copy fractional positions — it's proportional to the SOL amount
* Leaders must be on the ARCHONE platform to be copyable
* Past performance does not guarantee future results


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