> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.metacopier.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.metacopier.io/features/signal-sharing.md). # Signal sharing ## Introduction Welcome to the Signal Sharing feature! If you want to share your trading activity with friends, colleagues, or the MetaCopier community, this guide will help you understand how it works. We'll walk you through all the features and settings step by step. ### How Signal Sharing Works The Signal Sharing feature has two main roles: * **Signal Provider** – Shares trading activity with others. * **Signal Follower** – Copies trading activity from a provider. If you only want to follow trades, go straight to the [**Signal Follower**](#signal-follower) section. If you want to share your trading operations with others, keep reading. ## Requirements There are no special requirements. You just need to have a trading account added to MetaCopier to start using Signal Sharing. ## Signal provider As a Signal Provider, you can share your trading operations with others. The use of the Signal Provider is free: there are no monthly or setup costs. Before you start, ensure that your trading account is added on the **Accounts** page.

Account overview page

Next, in the left-side navigation menu, open the **"Signal Provider"** page.

Signal provider page

Now, you can add a new provider. Below, you'll find all the configuration settings. Adjust them according to your preferences to set up your signal provider. The upper part of the configuration settings includes the general settings.

General Settings

This is followed by the billing and marketplace options.

Billing and Marketplace settings

Then contact information and follower requirements.

Contact information, follower requirements and permissions

Finally, the permissions that determine who is allowed to follow when the signal is private.

Follower permissions

### Settings * **Name**: The display name for your signal provider profile. Choose a name that reflects your trading style or focus, so followers can easily recognize and identify your signals. * **Description**: A short summary of your trading strategy or approach. Use this field to give potential followers an idea of what to expect from your signals, including any specific methods, goals, or markets you specialize in. * **Trading profile link:** Include a link to your verified trading performance on a trusted analytics platform such as **MyFXBook** or **FX Blue**. * **Monthly Subscription Fee**: The amount charged to followers on a monthly basis for access to your signals. Set a competitive price based on the value and insights you provide, or leave it blank if you want to offer free access. * **Profit Sharing Fee:** An optional fee based on the profits generated by followers using your signals. This allows you to earn a percentage of your followers' profits, providing an incentive tied directly to performance. * **Billing Model for Profit Sharing** (This can only be set during creation)**:** * **Monthly Profit:** Charge the profit sharing fee on all profits generated each month. This is calculated monthly regardless of previous losses. * **High Watermark:** Charge the profit sharing fee only when followers reach a new peak in their cumulative profit. This ensures followers only pay fees when their total performance surpasses all previous highs, regardless of deposits or withdrawals. If a follower has a losing month, they won't pay fees again until their account reaches a new all-time high. * **Copier:** Select the specific account you want to use for sharing signals. * **Allow Override Copier Settings:** Enable this option if you want followers to customize certain copier settings, such as risk parameters or trade sizes. Allowing overrides gives followers flexibility while using your signals. * **Use MetaCopier as Payment Provider:** Select this option to have MetaCopier manage payments on your behalf. When enabled, MetaCopier collects payments from followers, either through a subscription fee or profit-sharing arrangement, and transfers the funds to you. Please note that MetaCopier retains a 30% service fee from each transaction. For users with significant transaction volume, we offer more favorable terms. If you process a high volume of transactions, please contact us to discuss customized pricing. KYC/KYB verification is required for this payment option. The fee covers: * **Payment provider processing fees** * **Credit card fees & crypto fees** * **Applicable taxes** based on the follower’s country * **Administrative and compliance costs**, including transaction handling and payouts * **Currency conversion fees** (if applicable) * **Chargeback and dispute handling** * **Payouts** will be processed in the currency defined in the project * **Is Public:** Mark this setting if you want your signal provider profile to be visible and searchable by other users. If set to private, only users with direct access will be able to view and follow your signals. Please note that it may take **up to 12 hours** for your signal to appear in the marketplace, and the account must have at least 10 trades in its history. * **Make visible in marketplace:** If the signal is not public, enable this option to make your signal visible in the marketplace for discovery. This allows users to find your signal through the marketplace while maintaining controlled access. Please note that it may take **up to 12 hours** for your signal to appear in the marketplace, and the account must have at least 10 trades in its history. * **Allow reselling:** Enable this option to allow subscribers to resell your signal to their own customers. When enabled, your subscribers can act as intermediaries, offering your signal to others while potentially adding their own markup or fees. This creates a reseller network for your signal. This option can only be set during creation. **Important:** resellers cannot further resell the signal. If a reseller enables the “Allow reselling” option, it will be automatically disabled by the system. * **Cover follower costs:** Enable this option to cover the MetaCopier subscription costs for your followers. When enabled, all follower accounts using your signal will have their base MetaCopier subscription fees charged to your project instead, allowing them to use MetaCopier at no cost. This applies to all follower accounts but does not include signal provider performance fees or any other charges. The option is available only during creation and can be enabled only if the signal provider **has more than 100 planned followers**. * **Max covered accounts per follower project:** When "Cover follower costs" is enabled, you can limit how many follower accounts per follower project you will sponsor. For example, with a value of `1` and a follower who connects 5 of their own accounts to your signal, only the **first account** (by subscription date) will be covered by you; the remaining 4 will be billed to the follower's project as usual. Use `0` (default) to cover all follower accounts without any per-project cap. The cap selects the oldest follower-features by creation date, and **can be updated at any time** — changes take effect immediately for the current billing period. * **Make history public:** Enable this option to make your trading history publicly visible to potential followers. When enabled, users can view your historical trades before subscribing. This transparency can help build trust and attract more followers. * **Allow Customers:** If the signal is private, specify the email addresses of customers you wish to grant access. Only users with these listed email addresses will be able to view and subscribe to your private signals. * **Contact information:** Provide your preferred contact details so that interested followers can reach you if needed. This may include your **email address**, **website**, **Telegram**, **Discord**, or any other communication channels you use for support and inquiries. * **Minimum account balance:** Specify the minimum account balance a follower must have in order to subscribe to your signal. This helps ensure that followers use appropriate capital to mirror your trading strategy effectively and safely. * **Allowed broker patterns:** Enter one or more broker patterns separated by commas. You may use full broker names or partial matches with [wildcards/regex](/tutorials/regex.md) (e.g., `ICMarketsSC-Live.*`, `Pepperstone-Live`). Followers will only be able to subscribe if their broker name matches one of the allowed patterns. Now, your signal provider should be successfully configured with your account. From this point on, your signal can be followed by others.

Example signal provider

{% hint style="warning" %} Please note that the monthly subscription fee and the profit-sharing fee cannot be changed once set. This is to protect followers, so they don’t get any unexpected charges. If you need to change the fees, you’ll have to create a new signal provider. In the case of a private signal, you can contact us directly. We’ll review your request, and if the change doesn’t negatively affect customers, we may approve and update it. {% endhint %} {% hint style="warning" %} If a follower pays the invoice using trial credit, such transactions are not eligible for a payout to the signal provider. {% endhint %} ### Earnings examples Let’s look at a few examples to understand how much money you can earn with a signal provider. In the first example, assume that **one follower** starts following your signal in the middle of the month. For simplicity, let’s also assume that the month has **30 days** and there is **no profit-sharing fee**. | | Calculation | Result | | ------------------------ | ----------------------------- | ------------- | | Monthly Subscription Fee | | 50 USD | | Days of subscription | | 15 days | | Prorated earnings | (50 USD / 30 days) \* 15 days | 25 USD | | MetaCopier Fee | 30% of 25 USD | 7.50 USD | | **Net Earnings** | 25 USD - 7.50 USD | **17.50 USD** | Another example: assume you have **10 followers**, all of whom **started following at the beginning of the month:** | | Calculation | Result | | ---------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------- | | Monthly Subscription Fee | | 50 USD | | Days of subscription | | 30 days | | Prorated earnings | (50 USD / 30 days) \* 30 days | 50 USD | | MetaCopier Fee | 30% of 50 USD | 15 USD | | Net Earnings | 50 USD - 15 USD | 35 USD | | **Net earnings with 10 followers** | 10 \* 35 USD | **350 USD** | ### Cover follower costs The **Cover follower costs** option lets you, as a signal provider, take over the MetaCopier base account fee of your followers' accounts. It is intended for providers who want to lower the entry barrier for their followers, for example when you bring your own audience from a Telegram channel or a community and want them to be able to copy your signals without paying the MetaCopier base fee themselves. #### What is covered (and what is not) When the option is enabled, the **base MetaCopier account fee** of each covered follower account is moved from the follower's project to **your** project. The fee is the standard shared-account price of **0.27 USD per day**, which corresponds to approximately **8.10 USD per account per month** (30 days, pro-rated daily). The option does **not** cover: * Your **monthly subscription fee** (if any). Followers continue to pay this for access to your signal. * Your **profit-sharing fee** (if any). * Any other follower-side charges such as **dedicated IP** or **PRO features**. #### How followers and your project are billed For every follower account that is covered, the daily account fee is: * **Removed** from the follower's monthly invoice for the days the account was active in that month. * **Added** to your project's monthly invoice for the same days. Billing is computed daily. If a follower starts following your signal on the 16th of a 30-day month, only the remaining 15 days of that month are charged to your project for that account. #### Concrete example without a cap Assume **Cover follower costs** is enabled and **Max covered accounts per follower project** is set to `0` (the default, meaning no cap). During a 30-day month three followers have accounts connected to your signal: | Follower | Accounts following your signal | Active days in the month | Cost added to your invoice | | ---------- | ------------------------------ | ------------------------ | ----------------------------- | | Follower A | 1 account | 30 | 30 × 0.27 = **8.10 USD** | | Follower B | 2 accounts | 30 each | 2 × 30 × 0.27 = **16.20 USD** | | Follower C | 1 account (joined on day 16) | 15 | 15 × 0.27 = **4.05 USD** | | **Total** | **4 covered accounts** | | **28.35 USD** | On their own invoices the followers see **0 USD** for the MetaCopier base fee on the days their accounts were covered. They still see and pay any signal subscription fee or profit-sharing fee that you charge. #### Limiting your exposure with "Max covered accounts per follower project" If you do not want to subsidise every single account that a follower connects, use the **Max covered accounts per follower project** setting. The value defines how many accounts **per follower's project** you are willing to sponsor; any additional accounts are billed to the follower as usual. Same scenario as above, but with **Max covered accounts per follower project = 1**: | Follower | Accounts following | Covered by you (oldest first) | Billed to the follower | | ------------------------ | ------------------ | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------- | | Follower A | 1 | 1 | 0 | | Follower B | 2 | 1 (the older account) | 1 | | Follower C | 1 | 1 | 0 | | **Total covered by you** | | **3 accounts** | 1 account stays with Follower B | The cap is applied **per follower project**, and within each project the oldest follower-feature (by creation date) is covered first. You can change this value at any time and the new cap takes effect immediately for the current billing period. #### You stay in control of who you sponsor Under **Signal Provider → Followers** you can suspend or remove any follower account at any time. As soon as the follower is removed, no further days are charged to your project for that follower account, and only the days when the cover was actually in place appear on your next invoice. #### Activation Because this option directly affects your invoicing, it can only be activated by MetaCopier. To enable it, please contact support. The recommended use case is signal providers who expect a significant number of followers (typically more than 100) and want to offer them free MetaCopier access as part of their own value proposition. Once activated, the option cannot be toggled off and on again on the same signal provider. If you want to stop covering follower costs, you can either remove the affected followers or create a new signal provider without the option. ### Functions By clicking on the settings menu, you can access various functions related to your signal.

Signal provider functions

#### Follower In the follower menu, you can view all accounts that are currently following your signal.

Accounts that are following your signal

In the follower settings, you can review the settings for specific accounts. You also have the option to suspend a follower, giving you full control.

Follower settings

#### Performance report Here, you can download an Excel report containing all accounts and their details for a specific month. The report includes identification, balance, equity, net profit, and other relevant information. #### Earnings report The Earnings Report shows the net amount you have earned by selling your signal and receiving payouts through MetaCopier. Earnings are credited to your project balance. At the end of each month, the system pays out the project balance while reserving approximately 50 USD (or equivalent), which remains on the project balance to cover upcoming MetaCopier invoices. Please note that if the option 'Use MetaCopier as payment provider' is set to false, this report will be empty. Below is an example. {% hint style="warning" %} The earnings report only includes paid fees. If the customer does not pay the invoice, the profit sharing will not be included {% endhint %}

Earnings report

### Payout terms Your earnings will be credited to your project at the beginning of each month, after the follower has paid the invoice. Payouts will then be sent automatically via Wise at the beginning of each month. Please note that a KYC verification and provider agreement are required before any payout can be processed. #### **Key Details** * **Minimum payout threshold:** $50 USD * **Reserved balance:** $50 USD (or equivalent) will be reserved in the project balance and is not included in the payout. This reserve is used to cover possible upcoming invoices and to avoid charging the credit card on file after a payout has been made. * **Accepted payout methods:** Wise * **Fees and commissions:** Any bank, transfer, or processing fees will be deducted from the payout amount. * **Payout schedule:** Payouts are processed monthly, following a **30-day holding period** to account for possible refunds or chargebacks. * **Payouts** will be processed in the currency defined in the project ### Personal verification To be eligible for a personal verification, you must first meet the following requirements: * You must be a signal provider with at least one payout completed. This step also requires successful KYC verification. * The signal must have a minimum trading history of 6 months. * The signal must not use high-risk or prohibited strategies such as Martingale, Grid Trading, Hedging, or similar systems. If all of these requirements are met, you can contact us for the verification process. ### Policy & Limitations * **The use of multiple signal providers connected to the same master account is not allowed**. If different settings are required, the master account must be added separately for each configuration. * **Public signals must be unique**. If multiple providers with different settings are required, they must be configured as private signals. * Non-compliance with the above limitations may result in the suspension or deletion of the account without prior notice. * Signal providers with no trades executed within the last four months will be deleted without prior notice. *** ## Signal follower To start receiving trading operations from signal providers, you first need to add a trading account to your project. Once your trading account is set up, you can enable the **Signal Follower** feature. {% hint style="success" %} To start following a signal, you must first fund your project with the subscription amount. After that, renewals are charged automatically from your project balance or credit card. **Please note: the trial balance will expire as soon as you add a signal follower.** {% endhint %}
Select then "**Signal follower**"
In the window, you can select your signal provider. Be sure to review the **description** and **fees section**, if applicable. Please note that the total cost of following a signal includes: * A **MetaCopier account fee** (approximately **$8 per month**). * Any **subscription fee** and/or **profit-sharing fee** set by the signal provider. Make sure to check these details before subscribing.

Signal follower settings

If the signal provider allows it, you can customize certain settings in the copier. For example, you can **reduce your risk by 50%** by setting the **multiplier to 0.5**. Adjust these settings based on your trading strategy and risk tolerance.
You're all set! As soon as the signal provider executes a trade, it will be automatically copied to your account. If needed, you can also set a [risk limit](/features/basic-features/risk-limits.md) or enable additional features to better manage your trades. {% hint style="info" %} Additional features or specific configuration settings are only possible if the signal provider allows it. {% endhint %} ### Limitations * If you are following a signal with profit sharing, please use a dedicated account exclusively for this purpose. Do not use this account for other expert advisors (EAs) or manual trading, as the profit calculation includes all trades executed on the account. * If the signal provider has enabled a profit-sharing fee, only one signal follower is allowed per account. * There is no distinction between demo and live accounts when following a signal. In both cases, all applicable fees, including profit-sharing fees and monthly subscription fees, are calculated and billed in the same way, meaning that using a demo account does not exempt you from any charges associated with the signal. *** ## Marketplace The Marketplace is your gateway to both public and private Signal Providers. You can explore strategies that are available to everyone as well as those that have been shared with you directly. Each signal includes detailed performance metrics that make it easier to evaluate results, understand risk levels, and select the providers that best match your trading style.

Signal Marketplace

{% hint style="warning" %} **High Risk Warning:** Trading foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, and other financial instruments involves substantial risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Past performance is not indicative of future results. You should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite before engaging in any trading activity. The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. You should be aware of all the risks associated with trading and seek advice from an independent financial advisor if you have any doubts. Signal providers' past performance does not guarantee future profits, and all trading involves significant risk of loss. {% endhint %} *** ## Legal & Compliance #### **Do followers (subscribers) sign agreements with MetaCopier?** Yes. During onboarding, followers must accept MetaCopier’s General Terms & Conditions (GTC), Risk Disclosure, and platform terms. This clearly defines responsibilities, risks, and confirms that MetaCopier operates solely as a technology provider. #### **Does the signal provider sign a contract with MetaCopier?** Yes. Signal providers sign a Provider Agreement. By doing so, they confirm that they are legally authorized to distribute trading signals and responsible for meeting all regulatory obligations within their jurisdiction. #### **Who is responsible for risk disclosure, suitability checks, and trade execution?** * **MetaCopier** provides the general platform-level risk disclosure. * **Providers** are responsible for regulatory compliance related to distributing their signals. * **Followers and their brokers** are responsible for trade execution, account suitability, and any account-level requirements. * MetaCopier does *not* execute trades or manage assets. #### **Does MetaCopier offer compliance guidelines for regulated entities?** No. MetaCopier does not provide regulatory guidance. Regulated entities must rely on internal compliance and their jurisdiction’s regulatory framework. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.metacopier.io/features/signal-sharing.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.