Major Forms Of Social Trading

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4 Main forms of Social Trading

Follow and Lead

It provides educational benefits to new traders and the basic understanding of the financial markets ,this is at the very heart of social trading.

Information

Information they say is power, the community must have a deeper knowledge of the expert traders they wish to follow and copy, this will help them in management and other risk affiliated decisions they have to make.

Volume

The size of the trading community matters, diversification and access to various trading strategies will define the outcome of followers

Versatility

New traders want to try different approaches, and advanced ones adjust as their portfolio expands. The best platforms offer flexibility so that followers can create the portfolio they desire

Major concepts of social Trading

Mirror Trading

It allows traders to copy a strategy rather than a trader. More advanced traders use it.  Mirror trading requires more capital amid high trade frequency in a fully automated environment

Copy Trading

When copy trading, copiers will select a trader to follow and duplicate all trades.

Social Trading

Traders will discuss and share ideas, but trade placement is manual.

Signals

Many traders publish them free of charge, brokers offer them, and paid-for signal providers also provide them. It is manual trading without interaction between traders and followers

Advantages of Social Trading

• Collective knowledge gained via the trading community for improved trading decisions.
• Trading histories allows followers to research the right traders to copy and engage with for optimized results.
• Watch & Learn depends on the social trading platform and the level of engagement between traders and followers.
• Confidence-building through active communication with strategy providers.
• Emotion-free decisions as the social trading platforms copy positions from traders to followers

Disadvantages of Social Trading

• Can risk be limited? Unfortunately, no. Social trading carries significant risks to consider.
• Hidden aspects of the traders who provide signals can add risks. Social trading platforms offer performance details but no information about the capital or diversification of the portfolio.
• False sense of security is one significant problem and often results in new traders skipping the educational part of trading. It is a requirement to succeed, irrelevant to the strategy.
• Overconfidence usually leads to excessive risk-taking and long-term losses. Social trading sounds excellent on paper but is only as good as the traders in the community.