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Why do copiers underperform the leader?
The leader's profile shows +200%, yet the people who copied them often made far less — or lost. If it's the same trades, why the different result? Here are 5 common reasons the gap opens up.
Late entry
Start copying after the big move and you miss the profitable stretch.
Execution lag / slippage
Copies fill later than the leader, at a worse price.
Fees & funding
Costs on every trade quietly eat into returns.
Copy caps
Your max size limit can stop you following as big as the leader.
Psychology
In a deep drawdown you stop copying at the bottom and lock in the loss.
That's why 'copier P&L' matters.
What matters is not the leader's own return but whether the combined P&L of people who actually copied them (copier P&L) is positive. CopyRadar checks this and flags traders where the leader profited but followers lost as a red flag.
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