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How to Start Copy-Trading on Bybit: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Plenty of articles explain what copy-trading is. Fewer just walk you through doing it. This one does. By the end you will know exactly what to click, what each setting means, and how to start mirroring a strategy into your own account.
If you want the deeper background on custody and how trades get mirrored first, how copy-trading works on Bybit covers the plumbing. Otherwise, let us set you up.
Step 1: Create and verify your Bybit account
Sign up on Bybit with an email or phone number, then complete identity verification (KYC). This is not optional busywork. Copy-trading and most withdrawal features stay locked until verification clears, and it usually takes only a few minutes. Use a strong, unique password and turn on two-factor authentication while you are in there.
Step 2: Fund your own account
Deposit USDT into your Bybit account. The money lands in your account, under your name, and it stays there. You are not sending funds to a trader or to some third-party platform. If anything ever asks you to deposit “to them” to copy a strategy, stop, because that is not how this works.
Only commit money you are genuinely prepared to put at risk. A copied strategy can have losing stretches like any other.
Step 3: Open the Copy Trading section
From the Bybit menu, head to the Copy Trading area. This is where leaders are ranked and where you manage everything you copy. You can browse the leaderboard here, or jump straight to a specific leader if you already have their profile link.
Step 4: Choose a leader
This is the decision that matters most, so do not rush it. Look past the biggest green return and check the things that actually signal stability: drawdown, how long the track record runs, and whether the account is still actively trading. Our guide on how to read a copy-trading leaderboard breaks down each metric.
When you want to weigh ours against the field, open our verified Bybit profile and compare the numbers directly on the exchange.
Step 5: Set your copy amount and risk controls
Once you select a leader and hit copy, Bybit asks how you want to allocate. The settings worth understanding:
- Total investment: the slice of your balance assigned to this leader. Everything copied draws from this pool, not your whole account.
- Copy mode: either a fixed amount per trade or a proportional ratio that scales the leader’s sizing to your balance.
- Your own stop-loss and take-profit: optional limits you set on the copy itself, on top of whatever the strategy already does.
Start conservative. You can always raise the allocation later once you have watched the strategy behave with your own eyes.
Step 6: Confirm, then let it run
Confirm, and the connection is live. From that point Bybit mirrors the leader’s trades into your account automatically, sized to your settings. No tab to keep open, no software to run, no manual order entry.
Step 7: Monitor and stay in control
Check in whenever you like. You can adjust your allocation, add or pull funds, or stop copying entirely with a single action, and you never need the leader’s permission to do any of it. The account is yours the whole way through.
That is the entire flow. If you would rather see our side of it, how it works walks through copying our strategy specifically, or reach out with any questions before you start.