COPY TRADING: MYTHS vs FACTS #1 🧵 “No time to trade” or just avoiding responsibility? 🤔 Follow a trader (most of the time an automated bot), sit back and collect profits. Sounds easy, right? Here's the maths: 📊 $10K portfolio, +10% gross return = $1,000 • Trading fees: ~0.02–0.05% per side (futures) • Round-trip taker fees: ~$10 on a $10K position • Copy trader's profit share: 10–30% (platform-dependent) At 20% profit share, that's roughly $198 gone, plus $10 in trading fees. Net profit: ~$792 instead of $990. And that's before funding or slippage. The catch? You share the profits, but the losses remain yours. The alternative? Analytics + Limit Orders + Position Sizing + Risk Management. Control your entries, define your risk and keep your profits without paying a copy-trading profit share. “Copy their trades, inherit their risk. Learn the game, own your capital.” Trade it, don't date it. 🤝