Copy Trading & Social Portfolios

Copy trading in Gilito lets you follow experienced investors and automatically mirror their portfolio decisions. Instead of building strategies from scratch, you can browse top-performing leaders, review their verified track records, and choose to follow their moves — either manually or with automatic synchronization.

What Is Copy Trading in Gilito?

Copy trading is a social investing feature that connects two types of users: leaders who publish their portfolio decisions, and followers who replicate those decisions in their own accounts. Gilito facilitates this by tracking every transaction with immutable, server-timestamped records so performance metrics are transparent and trustworthy.

Unlike traditional copy trading platforms that only show aggregated returns, Gilito provides full transparency into each leader's strategy signals, Gilito Scores, and trade rationale — giving followers the context they need to make informed decisions.

Leaders and Followers

Leaders

A leader is any Gilito user who chooses to publish their portfolio. When you publish a portfolio, your future trades become visible to followers, and your performance is tracked from the moment of publication. Leaders can share their investment approach, the signals they follow, and any strategies they use to make decisions.

• Leaders retain full control of their portfolios — followers cannot influence or modify a leader's positions
• Performance metrics are calculated only on trades made after the portfolio was published, ensuring authenticity
• Leaders can unpublish their portfolio at any time, which stops new followers from joining but does not affect existing followers' synced positions

Followers

A follower is a user who subscribes to a leader's portfolio. As a follower, you can see the leader's current positions, receive notifications when they make trades, and optionally enable auto-sync to mirror their moves automatically.

• You can follow multiple leaders simultaneously with different allocations
• Following is always optional — you can review a leader's moves and choose to act manually instead
• You can unfollow a leader at any time without affecting your existing positions

Verified Transactions

Trust is the foundation of social investing. Gilito ensures transparency through verified transactions — every trade made by a leader is recorded with an immutable, server-generated timestamp at the moment it occurs. This prevents retroactive editing of trade history and ensures that the performance metrics you see are genuine.

How Performance Metrics Are Calculated

A leader's performance is measured exclusively on trades executed after they published their portfolio. Pre-existing positions at the time of publication are recorded as the starting baseline, but they do not count toward returns. This prevents leaders from inflating their track record by publishing after a lucky streak.

Metrics include:

• Total return — cumulative percentage gain/loss since publication
• Win rate — percentage of closed positions that were profitable
• Average trade duration — how long positions are typically held
• Maximum drawdown — the largest peak-to-trough decline since publication
• Sharpe ratio — risk-adjusted return relative to a benchmark

Auto-Sync Mode

Auto-sync is an optional feature that automatically mirrors a leader's trades in your portfolio. When enabled, every time the leader buys or sells an asset, the same action is queued for your account proportionally based on your configured allocation.

• Set a maximum allocation per leader (e.g., allocate 20% of your portfolio to follow a specific leader)
• Auto-sync respects your trade guardrails — safety limits are always enforced
• You receive a notification for every auto-synced trade before or after execution, depending on your preference
• Auto-sync can be paused or disabled at any time without affecting existing positions

Published Strategies

In addition to publishing portfolios, leaders can also publish individual strategies they use. Published strategies include full backtest results, parameter configurations, and historical performance — giving followers deeper insight into the leader's approach.

Followers can review a leader's published strategies to understand not just what trades they make, but why they make them. This transparency helps followers evaluate whether a leader's approach aligns with their own investment philosophy.