Copy Trading With No Fee on Losing Weeks
The weekly fee is held at the start of the week and only paid to the manager if the trades you copied finish in profit. Otherwise it's refunded. Here's how it works, step by step.
Most copy-trading setups charge you whether the trades work or not: a subscription, a spread, a cut of volume. That puts the manager's income and your results on different tracks. TradeFIQ ties them together with one simple rule.
The week, step by step
- Monday. The manager's flat weekly fee is held from your TradeFIQ wallet. It's reserved, not paid. (No funds, no hold, and nothing is copied that week.)
- Monday to Friday. The manager's trades are mirrored on your exchange account, sized to your allocation.
- Saturday. The copied trades that closed during the week are added up.
- In profit? The held fee is paid to the manager.
- Broke even or lost? The held fee is refunded to your wallet.
A worked example
Say a manager charges $20 a week. In week one the trades copied to you make $140: the $20 is paid. In week two they lose $60: the $20 comes back to you, so your cost for that bad week is the trading loss alone, not the loss plus a fee.
What you'll see
Your transaction history shows exactly what you paid or got back: the fee being held, then paid or refunded. Nothing else, no internal splits.
Why managers accept this
Because it's how trust gets built. Managers must already have proven at least $1,000 of live profit on TradeFIQ over the last three months, on a Premium plan, and are re-checked every quarter. A manager confident in their trading has no reason to fear being paid only when it works, and followers have a reason to stay.
What it doesn't do
It doesn't make copy trading safe. Losing weeks still lose money; the rule just means you don't pay a fee on top. Allocate only what you're comfortable losing, and read the risk disclosure.
Frequently asked questions
When is the weekly fee taken?
It is held from your TradeFIQ wallet on Monday, when the copying week starts. Held, not paid: it only goes to the manager if the week ends in profit. If your wallet cannot cover it, nothing is copied to you that week.
What counts as a profitable week?
The combined realised result of the copied trades that closed between Monday and Friday. A trade still open on Friday counts toward the week it closes in. If the week adds up to a profit, the fee is paid; if it breaks even or loses, it is refunded.
What do I see in my transaction history?
What you paid or got back, and nothing more: the fee being held, then either paid or refunded.
Does this take the risk out of copy trading?
No. The fee is refunded on losing weeks, but the trading losses themselves are real. Copy trading can lose money, and past results don’t predict future ones.
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