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Glossary

Every term, explained.

77 terms across copying, track records, money, partners and the markets — the words on the platform and the words you will meet in the markets it trades.

Copying on IDTradersReading a track recordWallets, money and verificationPartners: introducers and ranksMarkets
Copying on IDTraders
Social trading
Following a trader whose results you can see and having their trades copied into your own allocation, in proportion, automatically. Your money stays in your wallets; the trader never holds it. You choose who to follow, how much to allocate and when to stop.
Master trader
A trader whose account is open to be copied. Every master profile shows figures computed by the platform from real closed trades — return, drawdown, win rate, followers, risk grade — none of them typed by the master. Masters earn a share of the profit they make for followers, and nothing on losses.
Copy
One following relationship between you and one master: an allocation, the trades mirrored into it, its settings and its history. You can hold several copies with different masters at once, each with its own allocation and auto-stop.
Copy Wallet
The wallet that funds copies. Money is moved into it from the Main Wallet (Wallets → Transfer Funds), allocated from it when you start a copy, and returned to it when a copy stops. Settlements credit your profit share here.
Investment (copy amount)
The amount from your Copy Wallet allocated to one master. Mirrored trades are sized from it. It must be at least the master's Minimum Balance and, for a commitment package, at least the package minimum.
Minimum Balance
The smallest allocation a master accepts for a new copy, set by the master. It exists so that very small allocations do not produce mirrored trades that round down to nothing.
Mirroring
The platform copying a master's trade into your allocation: same instrument, same direction, same entry and stop, with the size scaled to your allocation. It happens the moment the master trades, without any action from you.
Proportional by Allocation
The default copy mode. Each mirrored trade is the master's trade multiplied by the ratio of your allocation to the master's account. If the master risks 1% of their account, your copy risks about 1% of your allocation. It preserves the master's risk discipline in your copy.
Risk Multiplier
A setting in the copy form that scales every mirrored trade. 1x takes the master's risk exactly; 2x doubles the size of every trade and therefore of every gain, loss and drawdown; 0.5x halves them. Leave it at 1x until you have watched a master through a losing week.
Fixed Lot
A copy mode in which every mirrored trade is the lot size you type, regardless of the master's size or your allocation. It breaks the link between the master's discipline and your risk; for most copiers, Proportional is the safer choice.
Auto Stop Drawdown
Your own loss limit on a copy, set as a percentage in the copy form. If the copy's equity falls by that percentage from its peak, the platform closes every open mirrored trade and stops the copy. Set it somewhat above the master's historical Max drawdown, and size the allocation so that the resulting dollar figure is acceptable.
Daily Loss Limit / Max Loss Limit
Optional dollar limits in the copy form. The copy stops if it loses more than the daily figure in one day, or more than the total figure overall. They work alongside the auto-stop; whichever triggers first, triggers.
Stop-loss
An order attached by the master to a single trade: close it if the price reaches this level. Mirrored trades carry the master's stop, scaled to your allocation. It limits one trade; the auto-stop limits the whole copy.
Settlement
The moment the profit on closed copied trades is shared: your share is credited to your Copy Wallet, the master's share to the master, and the introducer pool is distributed. It happens on the master's cadence — daily, weekly or monthly. Only closed trades settle; losses are never charged.
Profit share
The split of profit on a copied trade at settlement. On a standard copy you keep 50%; a commitment package adds to your share for the whole term. The remainder is the fee, split between the master, the introducer pool and the platform.
Commitment package
A copy in which the allocation is kept with a master for a fixed term — three, six or twelve months — in exchange for a larger profit share for the term. The package bonus is credited to the Reward Wallet. Stopping before the term ends forfeits the bonus, not the capital; changing master keeps it.
Package Terms
The conditions shown before you confirm a commitment package: the term, the bonus share, the minimum, and what happens if you stop early. Read them there; they are the rules for that package.
Change master
Moving a copy — including a package and its term — to a different master from Social Copies. Profit to date settles with the old master; the allocation carries to the new one. Allowed only when the current master has no open trades, and once per account per 24 hours.
24-hour rule
The limit of one master change per account in any 24-hour period. It exists to stop a copier moving between masters several times on a bad day, paying a settlement at each step.
Social Copies
The dashboard page listing each of your copies: master, invested amount, current equity, profit, status, package and days left, with the Stop and Change master buttons.
Recent Trades
The list of a master's closed trades on their profile — instrument, size, entry, exit, result and times. It is the evidence behind every number on the profile and the quickest way to see how a master sizes and manages trades.
Reading a track record
Return (ROI)
Profit as a percentage of the amount followed, over the record's life or a stated period. On its own it says nothing about the risk taken to earn it; read it against the drawdown.
Drawdown
The fall from a peak to a subsequent low in an account's value, as a percentage of the peak. Max drawdown is the worst such fall in the record. Your copy experiences the same percentage. After a 20% drawdown, 25% is needed to recover; after 50%, 100%.
Return over drawdown
Total return divided by max drawdown — the master's grade. Above 3 is excellent, 2–3 solid, 1–2 means the return cost real risk, below 1 means luck or recklessness.
Win rate
The share of closed trades that ended in profit. Misleading alone: a 90% win rate with losses ten times the wins loses money, and a 35% win rate with wins three times the losses makes it. Read it with the size of the losses.
Expectancy
The average result per trade: (win rate × average win) − (loss rate × average loss). Positive means the strategy makes money over many trades; it is what win rate and reward-to-risk add up to.
Reward-to-risk
Average win divided by average loss. Paired with win rate it decides whether a strategy is profitable; a 40% win rate needs at least 1.5:1 to break even.
Risk grade
The platform's computed summary of a master's volatility and drawdown — Low, Medium or High. It agrees with the drawdown figure almost always.
Equity curve
The chart of a master's account value over time on their profile. Look at the slope, the depth and length of the dips, and the recent shape against the rest.
Trading style
The master's stated approach — scalper, day trader, swing trader, position trader — and instruments. It tells you what kind of week a copy will have: many small results or few large ones, quiet nights or lively ones.
Wallets, money and verification
Main Wallet
Where deposits arrive and money not allocated to anything sits. No master, trade or copy can reach it. Withdrawals are made from here (and from IB and Reward).
IB Wallet
Where introducer earnings land, at each settlement of every trader in your network.
Reward Wallet
Where rank bonuses, monthly salaries and commitment-package bonuses are credited.
Transfer Funds
Moving money between your own wallets — Main to Copy, Copy to Main, IB to Main — instantly and without fee, on the Wallets page.
USDT
Tether, a stablecoin worth one US dollar, issued on several blockchains. Every balance, deposit and withdrawal on the platform is in USDT; crypto pairs are quoted against it.
BEP-20
USDT on the BNB Smart Chain. Addresses start with 0x. Free to deposit and free to withdraw on IDTraders.
TRC-20
USDT on the Tron network. Addresses start with T. Free to deposit; a withdrawal carries the network's cost, shown before you confirm.
Network
The blockchain a USDT transfer travels on. The network chosen on the platform and the one chosen in your exchange must match; a transfer on the wrong network is usually lost.
Sending wallet address
The address you deposit from, entered on the Deposit page so the platform can match your transfer. It is added to your withdrawal wallets automatically.
Withdrawal wallet
An address you own, registered once under Set Up Your Withdrawal Wallet and confirmed by an email code, to which withdrawals are sent.
KYC
"Know your customer" — identity verification: an identity document, a proof of address and a selfie, reviewed by a person. Required before the first withdrawal and before cumulative deposits pass USD 1,000. Usually completed within one working day.
OTP
A one-time password — the six-digit code sent to your email to confirm registration, and to confirm a new withdrawal wallet.
Two-factor authentication (2FA)
A second step at login using a code from an authenticator app, so that a stolen password alone cannot open the account. Recommended for every account.
Partners: introducers and ranks
IB (Introducing Broker)
A member who introduces others and earns from the trading activity of that network, across fifteen levels. Applies from the dashboard; approved by the platform team; receives a referral link and code.
Network
Everyone who registered with your code (level 1), everyone they introduced (level 2), and so on to level 15.
Level
Depth in a network. Level 1 is your direct referrals; level 2 is theirs; and so on. Introducer earnings are paid across fifteen levels according to the program's ladder.
Introducer pool
A quarter of every copy fee, set aside for the introducers above the trader who made the profit and split across the fifteen levels by the ladder. Paid at settlement to each introducer's IB Wallet.
Program (Balanced, Equal, Legacy)
The ladder by which the introducer pool is split across levels — front-loaded toward level 1, spread evenly, or in between. Chosen at IB application; changed by request to support.
Ladder
The percentage of the introducer pool paid at each of the fifteen levels under a program. Shown live on the Programs compared page.
Leg
One of the two sides of an introducer's network. Direct referrals are placed left or right; everyone beneath them is in the same leg. Rank volume is counted on each leg separately.
Commitment volume
The total of active commitment package amounts held by anyone in your network. It is the only figure that counts toward ranks; deposits and standard copies do not.
Rank
A tier earned on commitment volume, with both legs required to reach the figure. Each rank brings a one-time bonus, a monthly salary and rewards; each has monthly maintenance conditions. The Ranks & rewards page lists every rank live.
Weaker leg
The leg with less commitment volume. Because both legs must qualify, the weaker leg decides your rank; the next strong referral belongs there.
Maintenance
The monthly conditions for keeping a rank — typically new commitment volume on the weaker leg, and for higher ranks a minimum number of direct referrals holding packages. Missing them pauses the rank; the one-time bonus is not reclaimed.
Markets
Currency pair
Two currencies quoted as one price: EUR/USD 1.0850 means one euro buys 1.0850 dollars. The first is the base, the second the quote. A rise means the base strengthened against the quote.
Major / minor / exotic
Majors pair the dollar with another large currency (EUR/USD, USD/JPY); minors, or crosses, pair two majors without the dollar (EUR/GBP); exotics pair a major with a smaller economy's currency (USD/TRY). Spreads and gap risk rise in that order.
Pip
The standard unit of price movement in a pair — the fourth decimal for most, the second for yen pairs. A distance, not a value; its dollar worth depends on the position size.
Lot
The unit of position size. A standard lot is 100,000 units of the base currency; 0.10 is a mini lot, 0.01 a micro lot. In gold a lot is 100 ounces; in Bitcoin, one coin.
Pip value
What one pip is worth for a given size. On a dollar-quoted pair, $10 per standard lot, $1 per 0.10 lot. Pips × pip value × lots = dollars at risk.
Spread
The gap between the buy and sell price. Tight on majors during busy hours, wider on crosses, exotics and in thin hours. It is the cost of entering and leaving a trade.
Leverage
Controlling a position larger than the deposit held against it. 100:1 means $1,000 controls $100,000. It multiplies gains and losses equally; masters manage it by risking a fixed percentage per trade rather than using the maximum.
Margin
The deposit held against an open position — the position size divided by the leverage. Returned when the trade closes.
Stop-out
The platform closing a position automatically when losses have used up the margin supporting it. IDTraders checks every position every 15 seconds. A stop-out is always a loss and usually at a poor price.
Swap-free
No overnight or weekend financing charge on any instrument. On IDTraders a position held a week costs the same as one held an hour.
Sessions
The four periods that follow the trading day around the world: Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York. The London–New York overlap (about 12:00–16:00 GMT) is the busiest window and where most of a day's move happens.
Weekly break
Friday 22:00 to Sunday 22:00 GMT, when non-crypto instruments cannot be opened, closed or edited. Crypto trades through. The break stops anyone being shown a price that does not exist.
Gap
A jump between one price and the next with no trades between — usually across the weekend break, when news lands while the market is shut. Stops fill at the first available price, which can be worse than the level set.
XAU/USD
Gold priced in dollars per troy ounce. One lot is 100 ounces; a $1 move is $100 per lot. Driven by real interest rates, the dollar and fear; moves about 1% on an ordinary day.
Real yield
The return on a safe government bond after inflation. Gold's strongest single driver: when real yields fall, gold tends to rise, and vice versa.
Stablecoin
A token designed to hold a fixed value — USDT at one dollar — backed by reserves and kept at its peg by arbitrage. The settlement tool of crypto and of this platform.
Halving
The scheduled cut, roughly every four years, in the number of new bitcoin created per block. The mechanism behind Bitcoin's four-year cycle.
Liquidity
How much can be traded without moving the price. High in majors during the overlap, low at weekends in crypto and in thin hours everywhere; low liquidity means wider spreads and bigger candles on less news.
Candlestick
A chart element showing a period's open, high, low and close: the body from open to close, the wicks to the extremes. Green closed above its open; red below. Long wicks show rejected prices.
Support / resistance
Price levels where buyers or sellers have clustered before and tend to again — the market remembering. When a level breaks, its role often flips.
Economic calendar
The schedule of data releases and central-bank events, with forecast and previous figures, in GMT. The IDTraders calendar updates every 30 minutes; high-impact events are marked in red.
NFP / CPI / FOMC
The three US releases that move markets most: non-farm payrolls (first Friday of the month), the consumer price index (monthly), and the Federal Reserve's rate decision (eight times a year, with a press conference thirty minutes later).
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