📖🅼🅰🆇🅸🅼🅸🆂🅴 ​ 🆈🅾🆄🆁 ​ 🆁🅴🆃🆁🆄🅽🆂📔𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘾𝙤𝙥𝙮 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 - Copier handbook 📓

As I see the number of my copiers grow, I have seen most copiers replicating my results, which is great. However, I have seen people making a few mistakes too, leaving probably unhappy. I'd like all my copiers to succeed, hence I'm writing this guide for you!

👉𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿?

You can choose your favorite PI in a lot of different ways, there is no wrong or right way. Now that you found me, ideally, you have:

-Read my Bio, my investing principles

-Had a look at my portfolio, which will be YOUR portfolio soon

-Checked out my risk score, and you are comfortable with it.

-Checked out my past performance

👉𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽-𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝘁?

I personally do not like Stop-Loss. In theory, It should prevent you from a catastrophic meltdown, but in reality, you are just realizing the floating losses, and as the market turns, you are missing the upside.

I advise you to set it to the maximum. Market dips happen quite often and I have seen a few people cautiously setting the stop loss at 95%. If the market dips for some bad news, it is very easy to get stopped out. I believe the most important is protecting your capital, getting stopped out due to a tight stop-loss is not serving your interests.

👉𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵?

The minimum amount eToro allows is $200. However, each position in the copied portfolio should be at least $1. If I open a position with less than 0.5% of my equity, you will not open that position.

Technical issues aside, it's also about meaningful returns. In 2024, I achieved 54% return. If you copied with only $200, you'd have an extra $108 which is not significant in most of our lives.

Therefore my suggestion is: As much as you are comfortable with, a significant amount for you. The more, the better.

👉𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗱𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀?

In short: Whenever you can. Personally, I throw every surplus income I have into investments. If you do not believe in savings accounts giving you 0%-4% annually, then capital markets are your best option.

In case the market dips, I often add some extra money, so I can buy more of the stocks that are on sale.

👉𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗱𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜 𝗱𝗼?

If you can, yes. If you can't no big deal. eToro is rebalancing the copy portfolio, to match my portfolio's proportions.

👉𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆?

Now. Actually, the best was 3 years ago, but the second best time is today.

👉𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆?

We all have unique life situations. To enjoy the most compounding growth, you want to stay invested as long as possible, often years, until you actually need the money for a house downpayment or something big.

👉𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆?

The other day a mate asked for my take on investing. And he kept going back to the question, "How much can I earn per day?" I believe this is the wrong mindset, investing is not about daily earnings. Many people are chasing the dream of perpetual earnings, gaining 5-10-20% per day, but it is just not sustainable.

If there was a way to make just 5% per day, starting with $1000 dollars, you should reach 1 million on day 145. I do not see these millionaires among us. Gaining 5% every day is not realistic. Daily gains are just a wrong mindset, not understanding how the market works. If you are after consistent daily/monthly earnings, employment is your best option.

👉𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻?

On a 100-year timeframe, the SP500 returned 10.39% annually, on average. There were better years, like 2024, the return was 25%. In 2022, it yielded -19.44% If you have a look, most investors on eToro dipped in 2022, including myself.

Yield strongly correlates with risk, so the more risk you are willing to take, the bigger the swings can be, in both directions.

👉𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂?

The risk score is a number between 1 (extremely low risk) and 10 (extremely high risk). It represents the overall risk of investing in a portfolio, accounting for all of the assets within it. 

Popular Investors should have a maximum Risk Score of 7, and I can see why. Check out the link!

help.etoro.com/s/article/How-does-eToro-calculate-and-present-risk

This is it, Version 1.0 If you read the guide and set your copy accordingly, then you will earn exactly the same as I do, and you will be a happy copier!

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💚 Invest smarter, not harder—copy my trades and watch your portfolio grow! 🚀

✅2023 - 54.58%

✅2024 - 54.1%

Gabor Fogarasi @fogi70

eToro Popular Investor 🏦

CISI Level3 Investment Certification

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