I tried copy trading for six weeks and barely managed to break even in the end.

I was actually up on four trades. Then, one bad trade wiped out all those gains. I kept holding while the trader I was copying had already exited.

The biggest issue I noticed is that copying traders is easy, but you have no idea what their overall portfolio looks like. A 2% position for them might be 20% for you. So you cannot size properly or build the conviction that comes with research.

I reached out to some traders to discuss this. People who actually make money seem to treat copy trading just as a signal. They do their own research, manage positions, and decide when to exit.

How do you approach it? And how long do you typically test a strategy before deciding if it works?

I have had an exchange account for a year and I am finally making a real wallet this weekend.

The part that keeps stopping me is that there is no undo. Every other account I own has a reset link somewhere. This one has twelve words and that is it. No support line, no recovery.

So before I move anything in, two things I cannot find a straight answer on. Should I test restoring from the phrase first, on purpose, while the wallet is still empty? And do the email login wallets I keep seeing actually remove that risk, or just move it somewhere I cannot see it?

The standard crypto advice is to use hot wallets for small balances and put large amounts in hardware wallets.

But browser wallets are doing a lot more than signing transactions. Relying on them to simulate transactions, flag suspicious activity, and explain what we're signing. Many pair them with a hardware wallet so the keys never touch the browser, which is how I run mine, currently on Jupiter's.

If you want to level up the security further, you can think of air-gapped hardware wallets and a multisig setup.

Neither air-gapping nor multisig automatically solves blind signing, though. If the hardware wallet can't independently show you what you're authorizing, you're still dependent on the browser wallet UI to interpret the transaction.

So is the old advice of using a hot + cold wallet still relevant, or has the browser wallet layer become the bigger weak point?

I swap between SOL and USDC a few times a week, usually a few hundred dollars at a time.

The part I've never understood is the fee side. Some days it goes through for next to nothing. Other times the wallet wants noticeably more before it will confirm. I assume that's priority fees when the network is busy.

Is that worth paying attention to at my size, or is it just noise? Do you set priority fees yourself, or do you leave whatever the app picks?

And when you look at a swap afterward on an explorer, what are you actually reading? I can pull up the transaction, but I'm not sure which number indicates the actual cost of the trade.

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Last night some x amount of money from saving account got auto swept to activ money without my permission or anything and then I disabled but it's still showing there not transferred back to my savings account any idea how much time it will take to get transferred to my savings account???

i have been losing for days and still somehow controlling not to blow the account but still in doubt is it my strategy or am i missing something , thinking to take a break from trading and focus on myself as this losing streak is impacting my mind and my anger issues. fyi i have been trading forx for almost 3-4 months.