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Recently come across “copy people” feature in eToro. Basically the concept is following the portfolio of other people. Anyone try this platform before? Mind to share your experience?
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Lau YongLe
17 Mar 2020
Accountancy at Nanyang Technological University
Like what the rest says, eToro is a good playing ground where you get to copy popular investors. Kind of a no-brainer.
Always select copy open trades when copying anybody as the investors have most likely opened a ton of positions with a substantial amount of their balance into a portfolio of companies, currency pairings etc. Not doing so will lower the performance of your capital in most cases.
There are no commission fees for trades, but the spreads are less favourable as compared to other platforms. Withdrawal fees is fixed at USD 5 per withdrawal.
Read more about eToro: https://guidesify.com/blog/2017/03/16/top-ways-...
Like if it works!
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Personally tried and lost a lot of money (about 20% of what I deposited).
Copy trade seems so brainless, just copy someone with returns of more than 10% or 20% in the past year and you know you're on your way to a Lambo.. right? Wrong.
Because the problems with copy trading are as follows:
overall, maybe because I lost money that's why I'm salty. But my take is if all you Wan do is to copy trade, then go for something simple like auto wealth or stash away. Because after all, these ppl u put ur money with are retail investors.
finally, if you don't trust what I say. Try searching for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 TOP Traders. Most are never there to stay. Often, the 2016 guy is gone and probably non-existent by now.
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Yes, I have been using it for about two years now for some of my trades. Initially used it mostly for cryptocurrency and CFD trades before they offering actual shares late last year.
Personally, I think it's a good playground to learn from the social trading aspects from some of the popular investors especially for beginners.
Let me summarise the pros and the cons of the platform from my experience:
Pros:
The copy trade features allow a beginner to have a diversified portfolio by copying the trades of the selected popular investors.
Additional income for becoming popular investors (having a certain number of copiers). There are different tiers of the PI which grant you different benefits.
Low barrier of entry because they offer fractional shares
No commissions for opening trades
Cons:
There's a withdrawal fee of 50 USD for each withdrawal regardless of the amount.
Fluctuations of the USD/SGD as the denominated currency is USD.
There's been a trend of the delays in the market opening for the particular stocks when they experiencing a big surge/dip. For example, says a US company had a good Q3 earnings call and has a premarket surge in the price, Etoro will delay the market opening for that stocks so you can't trade at all.
The platform reliability could be questionable due to point 3 as I mentioned.
Just my two cents and hope it helps! :)
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Nicholes Wong
02 Jan 2019
Diploma in Business Management at Nanyang Polytechnic
Just saying eToro might be CFD trading (contract for difference) not stock trading they are differen...
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Just at the point you can make money the software glitches and the stop loss function stops working. Then the take all your capital, there is no security in trading with this platform. The positions do not reflect the true market positions and this gives the scope to manipulate the position not relative to the market. I lost some money and what little I had left with them I decided to withdraw but I never received refund.
Most business these days is very good at selling products that don't work and etoro are very good at this. These types of company's should be stopped but they don't seem to be accountable to any law. It is a legalised scam, they are moderated so if you make money but not much then your a good statistic for them to show to the governing body but your profit is not going to be worth your worry over your capital or your time.