MAM / PAMM

A copy trading affiliate is a partner who promotes a broker's copy or social trading platform rather than manual trading. They target investors who want to automatically mirror the trades of experienced strategy provide…

A drawdown limit is a risk rule capping how much an account may fall from its peak before trading is halted or the manager is penalized. Common in PAMM, MAM, and prop-firm setups, it is set as a percentage or a fixed am…

An Expert Advisor (EA) Partnership is a marketing arrangement in which an Introducing Broker (IB) or affiliate distributes an automated trading program — an Expert Advisor — to their audience, usually for free or at a d…

A Follower Account is a client trading account linked to a Master Account inside a copy-trading, PAMM, or MAM system. It automatically duplicates the master trader's positions, sized proportionally to the follower's own…

A MAM (Multi-Account Manager) Partnership is an arrangement in which an experienced trader — the money manager — trades many individual client accounts at once from a single master interface, while the broker supplies t…

A Management Fee is a fixed charge — a percentage of assets or a flat amount — levied periodically by a money manager or trading-system provider simply for managing a client's capital, independent of trading performance…

A Master Account is the primary trading account operated by a signal provider or money manager whose trades are automatically replicated to every follower or investor account attached to it. It sits at the top of a PAMM…

A Money Manager is an experienced trader or firm authorized to trade on behalf of clients through MAM, PAMM, or a discretionary mandate. They make every trading decision for the pooled or allocated capital and are paid …

A PAMM Partnership is a managed-account arrangement in which multiple investors pool capital into a single master trading account run by a professional, and profits, losses, and fees are split proportionally by each inv…

A Performance Fee is a percentage of the net new profit a money manager or copy-trading master generates for an investor, charged only when the account reaches a new equity peak. It is the incentive layer of managed-acc…

A signal provider is a person or piece of software that analyses the market and issues specific trade recommendations — instrument, direction, entry price, stop loss, and take profit — to a group of subscribers. In reta…

A social trading network is a platform that fuses financial trading with social-media mechanics: users follow each other, share strategies, discuss markets in a feed, and can automatically copy the portfolios of top-ran…

A trade copier is software that links multiple trading accounts and instantly duplicates every order placed in a master account into one or more receiver accounts. Unlike a broker's built-in copy feature, a trade copier…