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title: 'Binance Copy Trading Tutorial: How to Copy Trade Futures'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=6_C-P5DPaUk'
video_id: '6_C-P5DPaUk'
date: 2026-07-11
duration_sec: 1142
channel: 'MoneyZG'
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# Binance Copy Trading Tutorial: How to Copy Trade Futures

> Source: [Binance Copy Trading Tutorial: How to Copy Trade Futures](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6_C-P5DPaUk)

## Summary

This tutorial explains how to use Binance's new copy trading feature for futures. It covers finding and evaluating lead traders, setting up copy trading parameters, and managing risks to avoid liquidation.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Binance Copy Trading** [00:01] — Binance copy trading is currently for futures only. A link is provided for a deposit and trading bonus where available.
- **Accessing Copy Trading** [00:39] — Navigate to the Binance Futures page and click 'Copy Trading' or search for it in the app.
- **Evaluating Lead Traders** [00:52] — Use the portfolio list to view traders' performance. Change the time frame to 30 or 90 days to assess history. Key metrics: P&L, ROI, maximum drawdown (MDD), and AUM.
- **Choosing a Time Frame** [02:01] — Longer time frames (30-90 days) are better to identify consistently profitable traders, avoiding those with short-term luck.
- **Maximum Drawdown (MDD)** [02:28] — MDD shows the largest loss from a peak. Look for traders with low MDD to avoid high-risk strategies.
- **Assets Under Management (AUM)** [03:08] — Traders with high AUM may trade differently due to liquidity needs. Small AUM traders might trade altcoins.
- **Copy Trader Capacity** [03:53] — Each lead trader can have up to 500 copy traders. If full, you can wait for a slot to open.
- **Copy Trading vs. Lead Trader P&L** [04:07] — Your P&L can differ from the lead trader due to different settings (fixed amount vs. fixed ratio, leverage, stop loss, take profit).
- **Analyzing a Lead Trader's Trades** [05:05] — Click on a trader to see their trade history, including entry/exit times, assets traded (e.g., BTC, ETH), and trade duration (scalps, day trades).
- **Copy Settings: Fixed Amount vs. Fixed Ratio** [07:28] — Fixed amount: each trade copied with a set dollar amount. Fixed ratio: copies the percentage of the trader's account used per trade.
- **Setting Up Copy Trading** [09:49] — Choose cost per order, total copy amount (margin), and total stop loss (e.g., stop copying if down 30%).
- **Advanced Settings: Margin Mode and Leverage** [12:03] — Copy the lead trader's margin mode (isolated/cross) or set fixed mode. Leverage can be copied or set manually; mismatched leverage can cause liquidation.
- **Per-Position Stop Loss and Take Profit** [14:48] — Set individual stop loss and take profit for each copied position to manage risk independently of the lead trader.
- **Max Position per Symbol** [15:29] — Limit the percentage of your account allocated to a single symbol to avoid overexposure.
- **Risks and Final Advice** [15:58] — Read the service agreement. Risks include leverage mismatches and insufficient margin. Use low leverage, overfund your account, and diversify across multiple traders.

### Conclusion

Binance copy trading allows you to automatically replicate futures trades from experienced traders, but success depends on careful trader selection and risk management. Always use low leverage, maintain ample margin, and consider diversifying across several lead traders.

## Transcript

using the binance platform we'll go over exactly how it works how to navigate this system how to actually go ahead and copy and then some of the risks and with this I'll leave time stamps down in the description binance copy trading for
Trading you won't be able to use this I will leave a link below to binance as trading bonus you can check the details below if it's available for you but for
binance Futures page you can see copy trading up there now you can see it kind of disappears right now as I said this is a brand new feature so if you uh can see it here copy trading just click on that or you can just search for binance
copy trading in your application and it's there as well uh you can get to this page now once we're here you can see the overview so firstly we need to search uh for all the copy Traders and their performance over time so if you
come down to the portfolio list right here you can see uh different things that you can look at so the 7day I would change this to 90day or 30-day what we're looking at here is the history of these copy Traders right and so what
we're really looking for is you know have they got a history and is that not going to want to copy trade so go to something like 30 or 90 and you can see what they've done over that time now as I said this is brand new right so we're
going to go to 30-day and see 30day history right here then what we can do is actually search via these options here so p&l is profit and loss so you know what's the actual p&l of that trading account so you can see that is
uh the best Trader right here and then the p&l of various other Traders you can see this is in dollar terms um so that's how much they're making and this is the their account so obviously the more profitable Traders you're going to be
wanting to look at however what I would would suggest is going for the longest time frame possible you want people that are actually making money over you know a longer time frame because you know anyone can get right up to the top over
a 7-Day period they get lucky in a trade goes really well but then the rest of of the copy Traders then we can go to Roi which is obviously return on investment here so you can see that MDD is maximum draw down so the maximum draw
down is if they've lost a trade or they have losing trade what is the maximum draw down uh for those accounts what I would suggest is you want people who are making you know decent returns and not having huge draw Downs in the accounts
because if if they're having big draw Downs what type of risk are they taking are they you know are they kind of too less a fair with their um you know see what the maximum draw down is the maximum draw down here 0% right so he's
not actually had a loser um in his trades and then if we go down you can see maximum draw down 0.05 that getss much worse for certain Traders again so Trader or not or if they're just you know kind of punting around right you
definitely don't want to be going through that then we can see here AUM management it's right here so this guy has 800,000 under management 480,000
430,000 under management now traders that have larger amounts under management are going to trade very differently because they have copy Traders uh they may trade larger assets uh because with more trading you need
more liquidity right so you need notot be able to trade larger trades if you trading altcoins right so that can actually be part of your strategy to trade different things that's up to you the amount of copy Traders so the amount
500 per copy Trader so what you can do is press copy or press full here so if you press full uh and it's full so there's five 500 Traders copying if
someone drops out copying then you can obviously fill that place um copy Trader p&l is different because when copy trading you can actually copy the Traders entries and exits and their trades but you can also really um choose
or are you going to copy smaller amounts uh is your stop loss and take profit level different to theirs you can choose all of that and so what I would suggest
is looking at the trader themselves what they're doing because the copy Traders p&l your p&l and the others people's uh trading p&l could be wildly different to what the copy Trader is doing because they may have different inputs so
well but that is navigating this system and looking through different copy can see all of the details of how they trade you know the losses that they're
right here uh and then see exactly what they're doing so what we can see is how they trade and every single trade that they've made so we know if they're maybe
trying to scalp trades we can see all of that and that's going to uh tell us a lot about what they're doing so as you can see here only trading Bitcoin and eth uh due to liquidity right so this Trader has a lot under management as you
can see almost $500,000 so uh just Bitcoin underneath because maybe the really can't trade those smaller coins performance maybe we can look at 30-day performance we're going to look at 30-day p&l so 30-day p&l is pretty good
right as you can see here they're you know making decent profits over the last 30 days return on investment as you can see here around you know 2% over 30 days you know it's not not a terrible uh performance there current positions not
in the the market right now so as you can see if they have current positions any open positions neither will you as a copy Trader position history we can see here so we can look exactly what this Trader is doing so this Trader went long
uh eth and they opened uh at at 8:00 in the evening or 8 yeah 8:00 in the or something like that right and so a profit there you can see they went short
Bitcoin uh and again they kept the position open for a couple of hours uh so we can see here usually the positions are open for uh probably a couple of hours maybe a day something like that you know overnight uh so pretty
they're looking at um you know different technical analysis to open these trades but a lot of these trades are you know short-term day trading scalps like this and you know small kind of profits over that time um obviously with leverage
of the actual trades that they've gone in and out of as a copy Trader you would be looking to copy the opens and the closes right so you can change the amount that you put in per trade transfer history and then copy Traders
you can see all of the different uh copy traders that are copying this Trader and Trader you can click copy and then you can really dial in the way you want to actually copy these trades so if we click on copy on a Trader as long as
we're allowed to do that uh if it's not full of the copy Traders you have two options here you have fixed amount or fixed ratio so fixed amount each Order each order will be opened at a fixed margin amount or cost per order uh so
let's say the trader opens a trade you can say every trade that they open I want to open a trade with a specific dollar amount in my account so if they open one trade with a $1,000 or whatever you can say I just want to open each
500,000 your trade is exactly the same maybe it's $1,000 per trade or whatever fixed ratio is your um opening trades in the relation that they open trades in
their account right so again it's not the exact amount that you're copying but as an example if they have you know $100,000 in their account and they open a position in Bitcoin and that position is around 10% of their trading account
you will copy that for you now you may not have the same amount of money that they have have but it's going to open 10% of the amount that you have so if they open a trade with 30% of their account 30% of your account will be
traded as well so you're um trading with the same percentage that they're trading right which one should you choose um it really depends you know with fixed amount it's very simple you know exactly how much you're copying each time so
your $100 per trade the fixed ratio this could lead to you know different margin a different amount of money uh so I would just be careful with you know how
exactly you're trading um you just need to make sure that you have enough margin in your account to fund everything so fixed ratio may be a little bit better to go for because they're opening 20% of their account they're opening 50% of
their account so that's uh maybe reducing risk a little bit because you know exactly how much percentage they're opening and you're opening the same percent with fixed amount as long as you have lots of margin in your account it
positions that are let's say 20% of their account with a fixed amount for you that could be 20 30 40 50% of your account especially if there are multiple
here you have enough margin to fund trades because if you don't uh then the margin is going to get quite tight for you and you could get liquidated if
you're making losses losses in some positions whereas the the the actual trading first then this is when a Trader opens a position you open a position at the same time in the same direction but you just choose a flat amount to open
the trade with so let's go cost per order would be $50 so $50 per trade you open that the total Copy amount is the total amount of margin that you want to put in to copy this Trader with so you know if they're opening uh 10 trades
cost per order would be 500 for you or the total cost 500 for you and the copy amount you want an amount of margin that can fund those trades you know and fund you want to put towards copying that Trader and then if you have many trades
open that will be this so this has to be more than the cost per order and then the total stop loss is you can actually create a stop loss where if your margin which is this this th000 here if this gets down to a loss so let's say they
open seven trades a fewer in a loss fewer maybe flat and you're getting down to you know like a 30% uh loss on your total Copy amount that's when trades will start to be stopped out for you now this copy Trader May ride this down to
50 60% loss if you're not comfortable with that and you you don't want to ride that or if they've just opened a lot of orders uh you know and you're actually account more than them because you're on fixed amount what you can essentially do
is just say bottom line is that if my ,000 account is 30% down I start want to I I want to start trading out of positions and start liquidating them for a loss so that you can see down here your total loss would be you know 30%
right so that's something that you can look at throughout time you can actually change the Copy amount you can add more margin if you want obviously that just means that you um are putting more towards the trades this is a stoploss
saying like when we're down 30% we're out advanced settings you can copy the margin mode of the lead Trader or you can go to fix mode so they might be using uh isolated margin or cross margin isolated margin is where they fund
individual trades cross margin is where you just have an amount of money to fund all of the trades uh isolated margin can be a little bit um uh less risky than cross margin so if you go to fixed mode you can actually change this because
remember what's Happening Here is when they open a position you open a position positions you can actually go into your Futures Trading account and just edit
you want and you can add margin to different uh positions so you can actually do this yourself if you want to choose that if you want to know more about Futures Trading I'll leave some you know guides on Futures Trading below
everything like that and what the different options are so that video is down in the description you can just copy uh the lead Traders margin here leverage you can copy their leverage again if they're trading with let's say
2x leverage and they're taking you know less risk in a position if you're opening with 10x leverage you're you're copying the side of the trade if they're long you're going long but the risk is totally different right so if they're
only using 2x leverage and you're using 10 It's a larger amount of your position maybe you don't have enough margin maybe a 5% loss for them is like a lot bigger loss for you you get stopped out you lose money actually they just were using
up they actually you know made a good trade but because you were using more leverage you got stopped out so that's where U changing this essentially means
that your p&l can be very very different to the Traders pnl and so yes you're you're copying when they go long or short when you when they go in or out but if the amount of Leverage that you're using and the amount of margin
results so definitely keep that in mind maybe you just want to choose copying the Traders leverage no or you can just choose a very small amount and uh and and trade that right so Traders may use anywhere from kind of 5 to 20 x margin
you know what I just want to copy but one 1X margin would be no margin or two or 3x again that's up to the individual margin can be risky especially if you're copying a Trader who has different amounts in their account as to you know
what you have then right here for each single position you can choose a takeprofit and a stop- loss this is different to here this is for your account generally and what it's trading it may have 10 positions open this right
here is each individual position so if the position itself is down 15% cut me 40% again if the trader has a different stop loss to you your p&l is going to be
different to them but you can do that on a position basis and you can say if we're making a 25% gain or a 30% gain uh you can t take a profit and actually trade out of that position and again they may have no takeprofit they may
ride it to 60 or 70% they may you know do something else so your p&l may be different to them if you choose this but it is risk management if you're not sure these Traders can make losses and they may ride a position down kind of
symbol so again if one Trader is taking a huge bet on one position then you can wrecked by one trade and so you can put that in maybe 50% or 20% and again your
pnl is going to be very different to the trader if you're um you know doing this but that's up to the individual Trader then just read the service agreement I would read this carefully there are many risks here especially with copying
copying the ins and outs but the margin you're using how much margin you have to fund trades how much leverage they're using all of that is going to determine
um how your account is actually traded right so they could be using less margin than you more margin than you if you're not managing these positions carefully a ton of margin you copied that you didn't have enough margin in the account
and they kind of you know didn't blow up their account but you can blow up yours you're happy with that uh and then go ahead and copy and you can essentially open trades when and if the lead Trader is opening the trade if you do have any
also see them in the overview right here so if you just go to this uh Arrow right here it's going to take you through to uh all of the positions that you have
platform is right now is it's just open but ongoing any trades that you have have $1,000 in the account for margin you can see the realized p&l net profit
here uh so if you know your net profit is in a loss and the margin balance is getting pretty low you can add margin in if you want you you can take it away if you want or the portfolio list right here is going to show you every single
trade and then on the right hand side there should be an option to essentially manually cut it here there'll just be an option to cut it an option to view it Futures Trading screen and you should be able to see all of those orders uh live
as well because your account will be opening these trades it's just an instruction to say open this trade when this other Trader opens their trade but these trades are yours they're your futures trades you can manage them in
I have copy traded before and there are definitely some risks with copy trading the main one is getting wrecked with leverage uh the copy Traders can go into
some really crazy trades short term and if you're using a fair amount of Leverage it can really wreck those trades really really quickly so I would recommend this with very very low Mar in and putting way more margin in your
account than you think you need because trades can go very wrong very quick with this type of trading it definitely is a risk also what you may want to do is try and spread the risk over a few different Traders so rather than just copying one
Trader maybe you know copy six or seven Traders or whatever it is for you and have like a portfolio of copy Traders and just kind of see how it goes that's my two cents on it anyway link below to binance and some more helpful videos uh
down in the description as well for you I'm James is moneyz Che for watching and I'll see you in the next one