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title: 'I Tried Copy Trading with $10,000 – Here''s What Happened'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=UP-x_9bvuJ4'
video_id: 'UP-x_9bvuJ4'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 765
channel: 'BentoBoi'
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# I Tried Copy Trading with $10,000 – Here's What Happened

> Source: [I Tried Copy Trading with $10,000 – Here's What Happened](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UP-x_9bvuJ4)

## Summary

A 22-year-old crypto trader tests copy trading on a leverage platform, starting with $10,000 across three top traders over 7 days. Despite early gains, a market crash leads to losses, concluding that copy trading is risky and not recommended.

### Key Points

- **Challenge Setup** [00:01] — Brandon, a 22-year-old with 4 years crypto experience, starts a 7-day copy trading challenge with $10,000 to follow top traders on a leverage platform.
- **Game Plan** [01:31] — Step 1: Pick traders with high win rate, good PnL, and consistency. Step 2: Allocate funds. Step 3: Sit back and relax.
- **Trader Selection** [02:49] — Three traders chosen: g98 (178% up, 77% win rate), Mr. Fibonacci (60% win rate), and Tekon (top trader on FX). Allocations: $5,000 to g98, $2,500 each to others.
- **Day 1 Results** [03:46] — Portfolio up $31 after day 1, with some unrealized losses but overall small profit.
- **Day 2 Results** [05:20] — Portfolio up $290 total, driven by g98's profitable trades on Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, and Aptos.
- **Day 3 Losses** [07:09] — Portfolio down $159 due to a large Solana loss from g98. Fibonacci and Tekon inactive.
- **Days 4-5 Recovery** [08:07] — Portfolio recovers to up $728, with g98 making profits on Ethereum, Pendle, Solana, and Bitcoin. Market heating up with Bitcoin hitting $107k.
- **Day 7 Market Crash** [09:26] — Bitcoin and crypto market nuke. Portfolio ends down over $1,000, with g98 losing $550 and Fibonacci losing $500. Tekon never traded.
- **Final Verdict** [11:13] — Copy trading is risky; not recommended. Suggests longer-term traders might be better. Despite losses, gives away Amazon gift cards to viewers.

### Conclusion

The copy trading challenge ended in a loss due to a market crash and poor trader selection, highlighting the high risk of leverage trading. The creator advises against copy trading and suggests longer-term strategies.

## Transcript

see if we can come out with a profit Bitcoin just hit $100,000 and everyone so I want to see if we can make some money simply just by following the smart
money in the space hello everyone so for those of you guys who don't know me my in the crypto space for over four years now and as someone who does have some was able to turn one of my $5,000 accounts into $15 ,000 over the past
the skills to make consistent month-over-month profit but while I was trading I was actually on a platform and I was scrolling through it and I found a little bit of investigating and I found out that I can actually automatically
of the work so basically I could give the top Traders some of my money and and relax and maybe we could come out with a profit or at least that's the
actually implementing the strategy with nfts and meme coins and we have actually some crypto altcoins so will this actually work all right so for the next 7 days we are going to be copy trading some of these smart traders in the space
be starting off with a budget of $10,000 and hopefully we can 10x this by the end out with a profit but make sure to stay to the end of the video to see how much
money we make or if we rinse the entire account however if we do make some money channel however to ensure we come out with a profit we need a game plan so traders that we are going to want to follow and this is the most crucial step
trades obviously we're going to make money so we do want to pick someone win rate a good pnl and is consistent in the market step number two is we're trade forward and we will be copying all of their trades then the third and final
the money come in so without further Ado let's load up the account and let's see trading not meme coin trading that's for another video I do know a lot of you
notifications on you will be pinged when that video does come out but for those summarize it quickly crypto leverage trading allows you to borrow funds to taking out a loan for example with up to 2x leverage you can trade double the
trade goes in your favor your profits are Amplified and you can make a lot of can get liquidated and lose all your funds so chat gbd does give a warning
crypto space there's a lot of risk but who are our Traders introducing Trader number one g98 he's up 178% over the past 30 days he has a 77% win rate and
he made 51,00 000 over the past 30 days I like this guy a lot Trader number two Mr fibach he trades off of Fibonacci levels and also Chinese astrology signs regardless he's one of the top Traders on the site he has a 60% win rate and
he's up over $20,000 in the past 30 days then the last Trader is going to be on a platform called femex it is tekon this Trader is up 11% or $62,000 in the past month and he's the top Trader on FX I like it a lot we are
going to be giving tekon and Mr fiir $2,500 we're going to be giving g98 the rest of the count which is $5,000 so let's get to day one and see how things go good morning everyone just woke up late start 944 as you guys can see but
let's go ahead and make some money oh just went all over the place all right good morning everyone so this is going to be day one our first check-in in the morning so if we take a
look at our current bit Unix account we actually made $131 last night so that is are currently in a trade that is down $189 so we are actually overall losing
money in this account we are down basically $50 more or less so that does hopefully if the market can pick back up again uh we will be in the profit but pretty cool to see that they actually made $132 last night and hopefully this
and our other account Mr tekon or nansen Alpha he actually hasn't made any trades so far so hopefully he can actually do something and make us some money but make it up in the next couple of hours and days I'll see you guys later tonight
where we check on the account all right everyone so it is currently the end of day one and we are going to be checking on our portfolio we do have our account loaded up right here and we're going to refresh the page and okay so we are
currently up a little bit actually so it does look like that the total unrealized profit is still in the negative so we're down 87 bucks however we still do have a profit of18 so let me do the quick math so I just
did the math really fast uh so although it does say we are profiting 118 bucks currently up in the green profiting around $31 so that is going to wrap it up for day one we are currently up $31 hopefully we are up more tomorrow but
amazing grub posted my new YouTube video traded some nfts and I also had to help my mom with a bunch of groceries today so it was a very very busy day and I hard at work and going to Absolute War for our portfolio so it is actually
night time of day two and we're going to check on the stats and how our Traders guys an update at the portfolio for day two I've been out all day so like I said I wasn't able to check on the portfolio so we're going to check it in 3 2 1 okay
and today we are up $242 in realized value and we also have a position that is up $52 so we are up around $2 $90 for the past 2 days so overall I'm really
really happy with that our boy FIB baracci is up $50 for us and g98 is moving like an absolute tank right now he is currently up $192 so we can long so basically we bought ethereum we also bought salana so we are up around
$50 on that and that is the trade that is unrealized we also closed out an ethereum long for 4 bucks a salana long for 13 bucks we also had a Bitcoin long in profit and Aptos long as well so overall very happy with g98 and fibbe
tekon in the other account and he still has not traded a thing but I will keep you guys updated but we are up $290 in 2 days is this the passive income that
very very rich by the end of the video and I'll tell you what if we make over $3,000 in this video I will be giving one of you guys a very big prize by the money I will see you guys tomorrow we're doing pretty well right now all right
and simple today we were very busy I was posting on YouTube I was going on Twitter and also my boys from college came back so I did have to hang out with them but wasn't too worried because yesterday we got our boys making us $290
happens refresh the portfolio we lost absolutely all our gains from yesterday in unrealized gains so that does suck a lot our boy Fibonacci actually didn't
take any trades but g98 got us absolutely messed up here so naturally $357 on a single salana trade like g98 come on brother and we're also down on a
link and ethereum trade so that does kind of suck so we lost all our money and more so we are currently down $159 in the portfolio we're starting to lose our last Trader you guessed it he did absolutely nothing but I'll update you
guys soon so for days 4 and 5 we just sat back and let our boys cook and I blow the whole entire account and the Traders were working over time in the past 2 days and we're going to check on their portfolio right now all right guys
so we're going to be checking up on the portfolio and check this out guys we are actually up $728 over the past 5 days so we do have our boy fiber Nici not trading too much but he is actually up 90 bucks and we
have our boy the goat G9 98 never doubted him for a second we're starting $78 so he did actually take a couple of big trades if we dive into it so we did actually make a couple of dollars on the ethereum long we also made money trading
Pendle and also Solana as well and he actually had quite a big trade on also important to note that the market has actually been heating up over the past couple of days and Bitcoin actually crossed an all-time high of 107k so I do
little bit well but overall we are up $728 over the past 5 days so we're going to be following Fibonacci and g98 and of course our FX boy did actually
absolutely zero trading brother this guy stin so hopefully he can actually get on it so I actually transferred $2,500 to another person which will be popping up lot over the past 2 days so hopefully he can make us some money I will see you
guys in the next clip and hopefully we are super Super Rich okay guys so after decided not to film an update however on day seven a lot of things happened in
fact the market absolutely nuked Bitcoin went down a lot and basically every scared to actually check our account however just because the market went our Traders could have flipped short and when this happens this would mean we
and the market going up and down on day 7 I was very excited and anxious to officially day s so this is going to be the last update of the challenge and I
have the portfolio right in front of me and so as you can see here the account is down and we are down bad we do have $ 6,497 in the account but we did start with $7,500 so although it says we're only down $550 we're actually down a
little bit over $1,000 for this challenge so that is overall not great and if we take a look at Mr G 98 the dude I said I had no doubts about he lost us 550 bucks in the past 2 days so yeah guys looking at the trades our
we did get wrecked by both of our Traders and on top of this our boy FCI did lose us I think around 500 bucks and he in fact canceled his copy trade so I follow any of his trades so that was a little bit unfortunate but maybe it was
account we actually had zero trades for the whole entire week even though we it did say the Traders basically didn't do anything so basically we did lose around $11,000 for the challenge but it was for entertainment and for science
okay guys so first things first is this a legit way that you guys could possibly lose quite a bit of money over the past 7 days it was a really rough day in the
would recommend everybody do I'm going to go ahead and say probably not this is benefit is you could sit back and relax another big downside is you don't have
all times you're basically putting your full trust in a random person so even to have control of my own portfolio so question number three if I were to do different Traders I essentially chose day traders who trade a lot and I do
longer term Trader who had a lot more conviction and had a high win rate I lot of these Traders will be profitable especially because we are experiencing a crypto bull run so I do think that this could be a viable strategy if you pick
small sample size I do think that if I picked the right Traders and did it over much better results especially if we picked the right Traders and even though
be giving out a couple of Amazon gift cards and in fact this person right here made $100 just because he retweeted one of my posts and lastly if you are into this is where I give you guys my strategy thought process and all my
help you guys out and again like I said it's totally free and up to you if you hope you guys did enjoy make sure to subscribe again I'll see you in the next one bye-bye