Fees calculation¶

For investors¶

While strategy providers can offer their strategies for copying on a free basis, some strategies involve fees for investors. The types of charges, in any combination depending on the strategy provider's preferences, include:

Performance fee
Management fee
Volume fee

An investor can instantly see all fees to be paid on the Start copying button before copying a strategy.

Performance fee¶

Performance fee (P, max 40%) – the amount investors will pay to the strategy provider based on the established percentage of their net profit calculated by means of the high-water mark (HWM) model.

Management fee¶

Management fee (M, max 10%) – a periodic payment to the strategy provider for managing investors' funds regardless of the strategy performance. Management fees are accrued on a daily basis and set by the strategy provider as an annual percentage of the investor's equity.

Volume fee¶

Volume fee (V, max USD 10) – the amount investors will pay to the strategy provider per million of volume copied. It is calculated per side and added to each position. The volume fee is charged only for the strategy provider's trading actions and is not applied for balance operations (deposits or withdrawals).

Example

If a strategy provider charges USD 10 per million, and an investor copies the volume of USD 1 million, they will pay USD 10 upon opening the position and USD 10 upon closing the position.

Strategy fee	Charged on	Maximum
Performance	Investor's net profit (HWM model)	40%
Management	Investor's equity, per year	10%
Volume	Per million of copied volume	USD 10

Example

Let us assume an investor allocates USD 1,000 to a strategy with the following fees preset by the strategy provider:

Performance fee: 10%
Management fee: 5%
Volume fee: USD 5 per million

Calculation:

Performance fee: 10% of the USD 700 net profit, or 700 * 0.10 = USD 70.
Management fee: 5% of the allocated equity per year (USD 50), or 1,000.00 * 0.05 / 365 = USD 0.14 per day.
Volume fee: USD 5 per million copied (USD 0.5 per lot) — for one lot of EURUSD, 1.19 * 100,000 / 10^6 * 5 * 2 = USD 1.19, where 1 lot = 100,000, the quote is 1.19/1.19, 10^6 = 1 million and 2 = position sides (opening and closing).

Fee logs¶

Investors can locate the applied performance and management fees on their copy-trading account page in the Transactions tab.
The volume fee log entry is available in the History tab. The unrealised volume fee can be found in the Positions tab.

Note

The Volume fee and the Unr. volume fee columns are disabled by default. Investors and strategy providers can right-click on any column heading in the History and Positions tabs and enable these columns for viewing in the drop-down menu.

For strategy providers¶

A strategy provider can establish zero fees for copying their strategy on live and demo accounts, or charge investor fees (performance, management and volume) in any combination but within the allowed boundaries discussed above.

Warning

Any of the fees can be adjusted by the strategy provider only after the strategy is stopped and no investors are copying it. New fees will be applied to the investors only after they restart copying the strategy.

Fees are paid to the strategy provider in the form of a deposit from the broker to one of the accounts specified by the provider in the Strategy settings window. The copy-trading fees are automatically converted to the provider's account currency. All fees paid by investors are deposited to the provider's account with a separate transaction per investor.

The broker will immediately reimburse the strategy provider for any realised performance or management fees applied to any investor. The volume fee will be charged to the investor's copy-trading account when the deals are executed, but it will be deposited to the provider's account along with the performance or management fee.

When fees are deposited to the provider's account, the strategy provider will automatically receive an email with a detailed description of the fees paid per strategy.

Note

cTrader charges a 30% commission on all fees earned by the strategy provider from 4 July 2026 onward. The commission is automatically deducted from the provider's fees and adds no extra charge for investors.

Example

Let us assume an investor generates USD 100 of net profit on USD 1 million of copied volume, with the strategy provider's fees set as follows:

Performance fee: 25%
Management fee: 0%
Volume fee: USD 5 per million

Calculation:

The total fees earned by the strategy provider: 25 + 5 = USD 30
The platform's 30% commission: 30 * 0.30 = USD 9
The strategy provider receives: 30 - 9 = USD 21

Fee payment time and terms (triggers)¶

All fees regardless of their type are charged to the investor's copy-trading account on the 1^st of each month. The payout to the strategy provider's account will be made immediately after the investor is charged.

Additionally, the following events trigger the application of fees:

The strategy provider stops providing their strategy. In this case, all investors automatically stop copying it, and all open positions within the strategy will be automatically closed for the investors, and all unrealised fees will be charged after the positions are closed.
The investor stops copying the strategy themselves.
The investor withdraws funds from their copy-trading account (for example, removes funds to their main trading account). In this case, the platform also automatically recalculates the equity and adjusts the current and future trades according to the equity-to-equity model. If the investor removes funds while copying the strategy, all fees will be charged at once and in full.

Note

When the provider adds their own funds to the strategy account, the platform automatically decreases the investor's positions; and when the provider withdraws funds decreasing their balance, the platform automatically increases the investor's positions. Depositing the investor's fees to the provider's account does not trigger the recalculation of the investor's volume to avoid any unplanned volume corrections.

If the investor is copying several strategies, fees will be applied to each dedicated copy-trading account independently.