Why can't I be copied by other traders?

To be copied by other traders, you must be enrolled in our Popular Investor programme.

When you are being copied by other etoro clients, you are passively affecting the funds of other people. Our responsible trading policy is in place to encourage responsible behaviour among all our investors on our social investment platform.

There are a few reasons why other investors might not be able to copy you. Some of the main reasons are:

High risk

Popular Investors may be blocked from receiving new copiers if they reach an average monthly risk score of 7 or a maximum daily risk score of 8.

Breach of community guidelines

As a social platform, we follow community guidelines. If you do not respect them while commenting on trades and interacting with other investors on the platform, you may be blocked from being copied.

We encourage the etoro community to discuss and challenge ideas, strategies, and market events as they happen, in a friendly, polite, and respectful way.

Non-responsive

As a social platform, clients who do not reply to our requests for information or documents, or do not post on the platform for the benefit of their copiers, may be blocked from being copied.

Breaking the rules of trading

There are rules set out in our Terms and Conditions that all clients must follow when using the etoro investment platform. If you break these rules of trading, you may be blocked from being copied.

Forbidden actions under the rules of trading include: attempting to bypass security measures, practising abusive trading techniques such as scalping, and using external software or technology to automate trades.

At etoro, we review our investors’ strategies regularly to determine who can be copied, in the best interests of the etoro community and according to etoro’s Terms and Conditions.