What Is a Good Win Rate for Copy Trading?

When you are choosing a trader to copy, win rate is the number that jumps out. But on its own it can be deeply misleading, and focusing on it alone is a common mistake. Here is how to read win rate properly.

What win rate actually means

Win rate is simply the percentage of trades that closed profitably. A 60 percent win rate means six of every ten trades made money. It says nothing about how big the wins were versus the losses, which is what actually determines whether a strategy makes or loses money over time.

Why win rate alone is misleading

• A trader can win 80 percent of the time and still lose money if the 20 percent of losses are large.
• A trader can win under 50 percent of the time and do well if the winners are much bigger than the losers.
• A high win rate over only a handful of trades is not meaningful; it can be luck.
• Win rate says nothing about how much you could be down at the worst point (drawdown).

What to look at alongside win rate

• Drawdown: how deep the losing stretches get, since that is what you would actually have to sit through.
• Risk-reward: the average winning trade versus the average losing trade.
• Sample size and time: enough trades over enough time to trust the pattern.
• Whether the record is broker-verified rather than self-reported screenshots.

There is no magic win rate. A broker-verified record with controlled drawdown and healthy risk-reward tells you far more than a high win rate on its own.

The bottom line

Rather than asking what win rate is good, ask whether a trader has a long, broker-verified record with drawdowns you could tolerate and winners that outweigh losers. RelayTrades shows broker-verified win rate and closed-trade results to help you judge, but no metric removes risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results, and this is general information, not investment advice.