Copytrading
How do I find profitable crypto traders to copy?
Find them on a leaderboard that ranks realised profit over a period long enough to contain a losing month, then verify the trader's behaviour rather than their headline number. The single most useful filter is consistency of position size: a trader whose wins come from one enormous bet is not a strategy you can copy, they are a coin flip that landed.
Read the ranking, not the number
Before comparing two traders, find out what the leaderboard measured. Realised profit over 30 days, unrealised included or not, one chain or several - each choice produces a different top ten from the same underlying data. A ranking that includes unrealised gains promotes whoever is currently holding a token that has not come back down yet.
Signals worth weighting
- Trade count. Thirty or more closed trades before you take the win rate seriously at all.
- Position size consistency. Similar size on most trades means a repeatable process. One trade at fifty times the usual size means the record is that trade.
- Drawdown survived. A trader who has been through a bad month and still ranks is telling you something a two-week record cannot.
- Token liquidity. Check what they actually buy. Their edge might live entirely in tokens too thin for a copied order to enter well.
- Hold time. If they exit inside 90 seconds, a copier arriving 5 seconds late is trading a materially different strategy.
Signals that mislead
- Multiples on a single trade. A 400x screenshot is compatible with a losing account.
- Win rate alone. A 90 percent win rate with an average loss four times the average win is a losing strategy.
- Follower count. Popularity moves the tokens they buy, which makes copying them worse, not better.
- Recency. The last seven days is mostly a measure of which narrative was running.
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