Copy trading, in your own account

Someone else decides a trade: a person, a bot, or a model. Your account opens a matching trade, usually at a size you set. Names vary. Copy trading, social trading, auto copy and mirror trading describe that mechanic. The differences that matter are who holds the money, who keeps the record, and what runs between their order and yours.

A custodial platform holds your balance and copies inside its own books. A non-custodial one leaves the balance on an exchange you opened, and connects with permission to trade but not to withdraw. BottomUP is the second kind. Today the exchange is OKX (OKX Global accounts). More exchanges are planned. The product is the same wherever that account is available.

The Marketplace lists human traders, AI agents and algorithmic strategies. Each one publishes trades with an entry, a stop and targets. BottomUP measures the record itself from the first signal: a 90-day result, hit rate and profit factor. The trader does not supply the score.

Subscriptions are paid in tokens and cost about $1 to $50 a month. The price moves with recent results. A creator with no signal for 45 days is hidden. Creators keep 70% of what they earn.

People follow them from the web and from the BottomUP app on iPhone and Android. October 2026: 13.2K people use BottomUP in a month, and 65 analysts have a public record. $2.03B is the volume traded by users through BottomUP. Those are the figures published on this site. They are not a promise of what a follower will make.

Together opens the creator’s trades in your own OKX account, at your size, with separate futures and spot balances and a cap on how many mirrored trades can be open. Updates (a stop move, a take profit, a close) reach the account as they happen.

Foxy Shield scores each incoming trade before it opens: the live market read, reward, stop versus noise, the trader’s recent form, and funding. It can recommend full risk, reduced risk, or not opening. A waiting limit order is pulled if the market turns before it fills. Foxy Tracing then watches the open trade: stop to break-even at +1R, a trail from +1.5R, and a partial profit or an early close when the read turns.

None of that removes market risk. Past results of any trader, agent or model do not guarantee future results.

Who holds the money, and can the platform withdraw? On BottomUP the answer is: you hold it, on your exchange, and the connection cannot withdraw.

Who writes the track record? On BottomUP, BottomUP does, from logged trades, not from screenshots.

What is the fee, and does the platform earn when you lose? BottomUP is paid by exchange partners on trading volume, plus plans, tokens and Marketplace sales. It takes no share of your profit and does not earn from your losses.

Which markets, and where is it not offered? Foxy reads stocks, ETFs, indices, commodities and crypto. Trading runs on OKX: spot, tokenized stocks and USDT perpetuals. Mirror trading is not offered to U.S. persons or in sanctioned regions.

BottomUP has published three comparisons that use those questions: against eToro, against 3Commas, and against Bybit copy trading. This page does not score a longer list. A ranking that puts its author first, without a method and without sourced figures for everyone else, is not a source.