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title: 'How to Copy My Trades'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=sTqUGSGrJVI'
video_id: 'sTqUGSGrJVI'
date: 2026-08-17
duration_sec: 854
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# How to Copy My Trades

> Source: [How to Copy My Trades](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sTqUGSGrJVI)

## Summary

The video explains how to effectively copy trading signals by mastering risk management and position sizing. It covers the core concepts of risk and reward, the 5% risk rule, and how to convert risk into position size using a calculator. The creator also demonstrates placing trades on exchanges and clarifies how leverage works without increasing risk.

### Key Points

- **Community Results and Problem** [00:02] — The creator shares results from 14 trades with 4 losses and a total P&L of $31.72R, emphasizing that some followers still lost money despite the profitable signals.
- **Risk and Reward Defined** [00:47] — Risk is what you're willing to lose if a trade goes against you; reward is what you stand to gain. A good trader only takes trades with at least 1:2 risk-to-reward.
- **Profitability with 50% Win Rate** [01:27] — With a 50% win rate and 1:2 risk-to-reward, you can be profitable. Example: 5 losses ($25) and 5 wins ($50) = $25 net profit.
- **Why Traders Lose Despite Good Signals** [02:14] — Trade outcomes are random; consecutive losses can wipe out an account even if the signal is profitable. Greed leads to increasing risk after wins, causing losses.
- **The 5% Risk Rule** [03:51] — Never risk more than 5% of your capital per trade. Recalculate monthly based on your new account balance to allow exponential growth.
- **Position Size Calculation** [05:31] — Position size is calculated using risk amount, entry price, and stop-loss. Use a calculator to convert risk to position size.
- **Placing Trades on Exchanges** [07:36] — Demonstrates placing a BTC trade on Wiggs and Bybit, entering entry price, stop-loss, and take-profit to confirm the risk and reward match the calculator.
- **Leverage Explained** [11:49] — Leverage does not increase risk; it only allows bigger position sizes. Risk is controlled by position size and stop-loss.

## Transcript

took in our community first week of November. 14 trades, four losses, and a total P&L of $31.72R. So depending on your capital, you could be taking home $6,344 if you are risking $200. Now, the crazy
thing is some people took these same signals and still came out in signals and still came out in hell. That is what I want to address in exactly how to copy my signal so you can achieve result like this when I achieve
that. Now the first you have to understand on how trading actually works and how traders really make money is risk and reward. Risk is simply what
you're willing to lose if a trade goes [music] against you. And yes, in trading you will take losses. You cannot escape it. If you are not comfortable with taking losses, then trading is simply not for you. No matter how good a trader
is, losses are part of the game. So risk is again what you're willing to lose if [music] the trade does not go your way. And reward is what you stand to gain if the trade goes your way. [music] A good trader will usually only take trades
where the reward is at least twice the risk. Let's take an example. Let's say my risk-to-reward is one is to2 and I decide to risk $5. It means that if I
decide to risk $5. It means that if I lose, I lose $5. If I win, I win $10. Now, let's say I took 10 trades with a 50% win rate, meaning I won five of them and lost five of them. So, my losses will equal $25 and my wins will equal
will equal $25 and my wins will equal $50. So, a net profit of $25 [music] even though I lost half of my trades. But in reality, actually, this might be closer to $20 because [music] I will pay transaction fee, but it's still profit
either way. But why do people [music] see signals like this, take them, and still make losses? You should know that [music] just because your win rate is [music] just because your win rate is 50% doesn't mean your trade will go in a
consecutive order of win followed by loss and like that. That is not how trading actually works. [music] Trade outcomes are random. Let's look at two
different scenarios using the same 10 tricks. So scenario one, there are two losses before a win. Now imagine you have $100 and decided to risk [music]
$50 per trade. After the first two trades, you've already lost all your money. Even though at the end of the 10 trades, the signal itself is still profitable. Scenario two. In this case, there are
three consecutive wins followed by four consecutive losses. Let's say a copier consecutive losses. Let's say a copier start with $100 risking $5 per trade. So the first trade was a win, he's happy. The second trade a win, happy. Third
trade a win, he's happy. At this point, he's saying, "Man, this guy is good. Let me increase my risk." So instead of risking $5 that he was [music] risking, he decided to risk $50. Then the next four trades were all losses. And just
like that, his account is gone. >> NO. GOD, PLEASE NO. NO. SO, we have the same signals, same win rates, different [music] risk management. Now, if this
has ever happened to you and you're wondering what is happening to me, is it from my mother's side or is it from my father's side? It is not from either of the side. You're just greedy and everybody's actually greedy. [music] So,
here is the rule. Do not risk more than 5% of your capital when taking my signals. You can choose to compound, that is fine, but do it monthly, not emotionally. So, for example, if your capital is $100 for 5% is $5, [music]
that $5 should be your risk per trade for the entire month, then the next month you can recalculate. [music] If your account grows by $150,
If your account grows by $150, that 5% for the next one becomes $7.5. that 5% for the next one becomes $7.5. You will be surprised how exponentially you can grow your account just by doing this. This is how trading works and how
this. This is how trading works and how traders actually make money. Now the next aspect of trading where [music] I discovered people don't really know what they are doing is actually placing the trades itself. [music]
If you think that risking $5 means going to an exchange and entering $5 into the exchange, you are wrong and you're going to pay for it. So, just pay attention to this. On an exchange, you trade using what is called
exchange, you trade using what is called position size, not risk amount. You have to convert your risk amount to position size. So, how do you do that? I'm going to show you. I also showed you how to place your signals on your exchanging
and confirm if what you're entrying is correct or not. And I will also talk about how leverage actually works and how to use them. So how do you convert your risk into position size? Position size is calculated using three values.
Risk amount, entry price, and stop-loss [music] price. To help you with this, I [music] price. To help you with this, I built the FS crypto calculator. You can just use the link in description of this video to get to it. It is completely
free. You can use to calculate crypto position size, chorus lot size and deriv synthetic indices slot size. Now back to how to convert your risk amount to position size. Let's look at this real signal. So we have BTC USDT buy limit.
This is the entry your stop loss and take profit. Let's risk $10 on this trade. That means if the trade hit my stop loss, I lose $10. If it hits my takerit, I make the reward. In this case, this is a riskreward ratio of 1 is
case, this is a riskreward ratio of 1 is to 4.6. So, a win would give me $46. To to 4.6. So, a win would give me $46. To convert the $10 to position size, I'm going to go to the FS crypto calculator. And in the capital section, I'll put $10
as my risk, my percentage of 100%. You can see above here it also shows $10 as can see above here it also shows $10 as my risk amount. Now the entry is 86159.3
Now we have trade amounts and leverage. Just don't bother yourself with this one. Now I'll come back to it. Now to even confirm how much I will make, I can enter the takerit in the takerit section. [music] So 88
510.5. You can now see that my profit is going You can now see that my profit is going to be approximately $46. My risk is $10 and my risk toward ratio is 1 is to4.61. Now you don't need this part to take
your trade. I'm just showing it to you so you see how that works. Now let's go to the exchange [music] and place this signal there. then confirm if it is actually correct. We'll do this. Put on wigs and buy a bit. So let's start with
wigs. So this is a BTC USDT trade. I'm going to click on market and change this to limit order. Then this is where I'll enter my entry price. It is 6159.3.
Now you can see what we have cost beside it is USDT. If I click on it, I need to it is USDT. If I click on it, I need to make sure that what is selected is USDT make sure that what is selected is USDT and place an order based on amount. Do
and place an order based on amount. Do not do by cost. Do place an order based on amount and select USDT. Then click on confirm. So what I now do is to copy my position size and paste it or simply type it [music]
into that particular section. To confirm if this is correct, I want to click on take profit and stop loss. [music] So my stop loss is 649.5. You can see now that it tells me that if
I'm taking a long position that what I will lose is $9.99 which is approximately um $10. Now let's enter take profit. 88510
You see it shows here that if I'm going long, which we're going long, if this trade goes my way, I'll make $46. Now, let's see how this works on buy Now, let's see how this works on buy bit. So, for buy bit, this is Bitcoin
USDT. Let's do the same thing. Okay, my leverage is 100x here. You can see where we have UST with the um circular arrow. If I click on it, I have to make sure
If I click on it, I have to make sure that it is not order by cost but order that it is not order by cost but order by value is what I want to select. Then limit order. I enter the entry price here. It is 6 um 159.3. [music]
Then order by value. This is where I will enter my position size that I got will enter my position size that I got from the calculator.
Then to confirm if this is correct, let's do it again. So if I enter my stop let's do it again. So if I enter my stop loss, you see that my estimated loss will be $9.6, which is approximately worth $10 and my estimated profit if I
worth $10 and my estimated profit if I enter my takerit price is $44.67 67 enter my takerit price is $44.67 67 approximately $46. In this case, Bit is taking away their transaction fee to have this to be at this amount. So, this
confirms what our calculator [music] showed us. Now, if you go back to the calculator, there's this section that says trade amount and leverage. How do want to use this section, I have to go back to buy bits. Instead of using order
back to buy bits. Instead of using order by value, I will select order by cost. I can as well still leave my leverage as 100x. Then I'll come here and enter 100x. It means that my trade amount is going to be 16.9.
That is what I will enter here as my trade amount. And I'll still get the same thing, same loss and the same win by just doing the same thing. On weeks, it is also similar. If I want to use other by cost, I'm going to come to that
same section and now choose by cost. Confirm. Then my leverage is 400x. What I would do is to come to the calculator and just put leverage as 400.
So my trade amount becomes 4.2. But in this case, because my [music] risk is $10, I have to make sure that I'm using cross margin and not isolated margin. second section. just order by your value and just enter position size. It makes
everything really, really simple and easy. Now, let's talk about leverage. What leverage should you use when trading on an exchange? The answer is trading on an exchange? The answer is simply use the highest leverage your
exchange allows. Now, I know some people here will start panicking and you know saying, won't leverage increase my risk? I'm going to [music] explain it. I'm going to [music] explain it. If my account balance is $100
If my account balance is $100 at $400 leverage, I can open up to 100 at $400 leverage, I can open up to 100 times the 400x which is $40,000 position
size at 100x leverage. It means I can open up at 100x leverage. It means I can open up to 100 * 100x which is $10,000 position
>> [music] >> Now the examples we have seen so far you see that our position size was worth 1690. So in the first case even though I have $40,000 available to
even though I have $40,000 available to me I am only using 1,690 from it [music] to trade. In the second case, I have $10,000 available for me,
but I'm only using 1,690 from it to trade. So whether I use 100x or 400x trade. So whether I use 100x or 400x leverage, I'm still using only 1690
leverage, I'm still using only 1690 position size, my risk does not increase. You can clearly see it. Leverage only gives me room to open Leverage only gives me room to open bigger position sizes not increase of my
bigger position sizes not increase of my risk. My risk is controlled by position size and stop-loss. [music] I hope this has made it clear. Now someone also asked me this question. Do I have to calculate position side each
time to take a trade? The answer is yes because every trade will have a different entry and different stop-loss. As a matter of fact, you yourself might change your risk again. Meaning that every trade is unique. But the good
thing now is that if you don't want to do all these things manually, you will soon be able to automatically copy my trade by just a click of a button because [music] I am building a platform that allows you to do that. If you want
to be the first to know, just subscribe to this channel and go to copymecto.com. Join the email list there to get updates on the progress.