How to Get Paid When Others Copy Your Trades

Most copy-trading content is written for the follower. But there is another side: the strategy leader, the trader other people choose to copy. On RelayTrades you can let others copy your trades and charge a subscription for it, while you keep trading your own account exactly as you do now. This guide explains how that works and what it takes to get started.

What a strategy leader actually is

A strategy leader is a trader who makes their track record public so others can subscribe and copy their trades. You do not take anyone’s money, hold their funds, or place orders in their account. When you trade in your own connected brokerage account, a signal is generated, and each follower’s own account mirrors it inside the limits they set. You are sharing your own real trades, not acting as an investment adviser or money manager.

Key distinction: followers keep their capital in their own brokerage accounts and control their own risk settings. You are publishing signals from your own real trading, not managing other people’s money.

How leaders get paid

• You set your own subscription price for followers who want to copy your strategy.
• RelayTrades handles the billing through Stripe and pays out your earnings, keeping a small platform fee (currently 6.9%).
• You earn from subscriptions, not from your followers’ trading results, so your incentive is a clear, consistent track record rather than hidden markups.
• Your own trading profit or loss is separate: you still trade your own account and keep your own gains and losses there.

Why a broker-verified track record matters

Anyone can claim big returns on social media. RelayTrades track records are broker-verified, which means your stats come from real closed trades in your connected brokerage account, not numbers you type in yourself. Followers see your realized (closed-trade) profit and loss, your win rate, and your trade history. That verification is what builds the trust that makes people comfortable subscribing.

How to become a strategy leader

• Connect your own brokerage account through SnapTrade so your trading can be verified (your broker login is never shared with RelayTrades).
• Trade your account as you normally would and let a real, closed-trade track record build up over time.
• Set up your strategy profile and choose a subscription price.
• Followers discover you on the leaderboard, subscribe, and their own accounts copy your trades within their own sizing and risk limits.

Responsibilities and the honest disclaimer

Being a strategy leader is not a license to make promises. You should never guarantee returns, and you should expect that followers can lose money when your trades lose money, because every follower carries real market risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results, and presenting it honestly is both the compliant approach and the one that keeps followers around. RelayTrades provides the automation and the verified track record; it does not make you an adviser, and you should not present yourself as one.