The following is a guest editorial courtesy of Arina Sharagina, Marketing Manager at broker technology solutions provider Brokeree Solutions.
Over the past few years, demand for copy trading services has grown 20% year-over-year. This market trend makes brokers worldwide consider the launch of such services on their trading platforms.
Despite this momentum, copy trading is still widely viewed as a forex and CFD product, and that perception is understandable. Copy trading grew up alongside forex. MetaTrader was the dominant platform, and retail FX was the dominant market. As a result, copy trading and forex grew side by side and shaped each other for years.
However, the market looks different today, and nowhere is this shift more visible than in crypto markets.
Crypto exchanges actively promote copy trading, multi-asset platforms offer social investing across a broad range of instruments, and traders increasingly move between asset classes rather than staying within a single market.
Is copy trading applicable only to forex?
Crypto exchanges have already answered the question. Copy trading is now a standard part of the offering at Binance, OKX, and Bitget, sitting alongside futures, spot trading, and other core products.
By the end of 2023, Binance reported more than $2 billion in weekly average trading volume through its Futures Copy Trading product within months of launch, highlighting the scale of demand for copy trading beyond traditional forex markets.
On the infrastructure side, modern trading platforms have also evolved to support multiple asset classes within a single environment, including forex, stocks, futures, commodities, indices, and cryptocurrencies.
“Forex is the classic class of trading instruments for copy trading, but not the only one,” commented Arina Sharagina, Marketing Manager at Brokeree Solutions. “Even though it’s the key class, the forex market itself, particularly dominated by a few major currency pairs, accounts for significant trading volumes, while many other forex symbols aren’t as widely traded. However, a robust copy trading platform goes beyond these traditional boundaries, allowing traders to explore and copy trading signals on symbols across a diverse range of asset classes, including cryptocurrencies, offering a richer and more versatile trading experience.”
The opportunity is significant. According to CoinGecko’s 2025 annual report, cryptocurrency markets generated more than $86.2 trillion in trading volume, creating a large pool of active traders who may be interested in social investing and signal-sharing services. At the same time, crypto-oriented copy-trading services often require additional controls to help followers evaluate signal providers and manage risk exposure.
Features useful for crypto signals copying
The inherent high volatility requires brokers to vet signal providers more rigorously to ensure the reliability and trustworthiness of their trading strategies. A robust copy trading solution should allow brokers and traders to navigate these in several ways:
- Brokers may assign special badges to signal providers to indicate whether their trades involve crypto symbols. The trading strategies of signal providers may also be flagged as risky or low-risk using the same badge system. This helps followers make informed decisions about which signal providers to trust, based on their risk tolerance and investment goals.
- As with other symbols, traders may use proportional copy mode to adjust traded volumes to their account size. They should apply the right risk management practices to navigate the market’s fluctuations effectively.
- With more advanced systems, followers can also choose to copy signals for only specific securities, such as crypto. This lets users tailor their portfolios more precisely, focusing only on the assets they’re most comfortable with or most confident in.
All these features are not unique to crypto, but they become more important when volatility increases, and risk profiles vary significantly from one asset to another.
Crypto within other investment systems
As brokers expand their product offering, investment services increasingly need to support multiple asset classes within the same ecosystem. A client following forex strategies today may be interested in crypto tomorrow. Another may be looking for exposure to metals, commodities, or indices through managed investment products.
“As long as the asset classes are part of what brokers provide to their clients within these trading environments, Brokeree’s flagship investment system is equipped to meet their diverse business needs. All popular asset classes: forex, cryptocurrencies, metals, and commodities are included in the investment systems of Brokeree’s offerings. This versatility is not only relevant to our Social Trading platform but also extends to our PAMM,” said Tatiana Pilipenko, Regional Head of Business Development at Brokeree Solutions.
From a technological perspective, most copy trading and PAMM platforms can work with multiple asset classes. But for brokers running simultaneously on different trading platforms that alone is not enough. Without cross-platform support, brokers operating MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, and cTrader may have to manage separate investment pools across different servers or trading platforms, rather than offering a unified investment ecosystem.
Brokeree’s Social Trading and PAMM both support cross-server and cross-platform copying, meaning brokers operating across MT4, MT5, and cTrader can run a single investment ecosystem rather than managing separate ones for each environment.
Parting Thoughts
Copy trading might have started as a forex-driven innovation, but the market no longer operates along those boundaries.
Crypto exchanges have demonstrated that traders are willing to follow strategies across entirely different asset classes, while multi-asset investment platforms continue to expand the range of instruments available for signal sharing. At the same time, the underlying technology has matured to the point where forex, crypto, commodities, metals, and indices can coexist within the same investment ecosystem.
Brokers whose copy trading setup covers their full symbol list are likely to capture that demand as it arrives. The ones whose setup stops at forex and CFDs risk losing clients to competitors that already do.
