How Beginners Are Making Passive Income With Crypto Copy Trading

Copy trading sits in a strange middle ground. It isn't fully passive, and it isn't fully manual either. In this session, Brian walks through what copy trading actually is, how the settings work on a live exchange, and why beginners use it as a training ground rather than a get-rich button. (Educational content only — nothing here is financial advice.)

Where Copy Trading Fits Among Crypto Income Methods

Brian frames crypto income in four buckets. The first is simple yield — moving dollars into a stablecoin like USDC and earning a few percent, often more than a bank pays. The second is liquidity pools, which he compares to an airport currency exchange: someone has to hold both currencies so travellers can swap between them, and the pool collects a fee for the service. The third is copy trading. The fourth is trading yourself.

Copy trading is the bridge between buckets three and four. As he puts it, if you want to learn a trade, you find someone who's good at it and follow them around until you understand what they're doing. If you're still mapping out the landscape, it helps to first understand how copy trading works in crypto markets before funding an account.

What You're Actually Looking At on a Trader's Profile

The heart of the video is profile evaluation. Every lead trader card shows the same layout, and Brian goes through it line by line:

- ROI — the trader's return, adjustable across 30, 90, 180 days. A trader who looks brilliant over 30 days can look ugly over 90.

- Max drawdown — how far the account fell from its peak. Single digits to low teens is reassuring. Fifty percent means a $10,000 account touched $5,000.

- Win rate — useful but not decisive. A 50% win rate with 2-3% losses and 20-30% wins is a profitable trader.

- Trading days and history length — a 354% return over 10 days tells you almost nothing. A shorter history can unwind just as fast as it built.

- Trading preference — Brian prefers traders focused on a handful of top-10 assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, where liquidity is deeper and moves are less violent.

- Leverage in position history — 10x and 20x read as risk-aware. Seeing 60x, 74x and 75x across hundreds of trades in 18 days reads as something else entirely.

These are the same signals covered in more depth in our breakdown of the metrics that matter when picking a lead trader.

Copy Settings: Fixed Amount vs. Multiplier

Once you click copy, you choose how your capital mirrors theirs.

Fixed amount means every trade they open, you open at a set size — say $100 per order with a $400 cap. Simple, but it has a catch Brian spells out clearly: if your cap only covers their first four positions and those four go badly while their next four go well, the lead trader ends the day green and you end it red.

Multiplier copies proportionally. If they commit 10% of their account to a trade, you commit 10% of yours. This mirrors their conviction — the $1,000, $1,000, $200 sizing that reflects how confident they felt on each setup. Brian suggests starting with fixed while you learn, then moving to multiplier.

Then come the risk controls: stop loss, take profit, isolated vs. cross margin, and leverage. Isolated caps your loss at the order size. Cross can draw on your whole balance before liquidating. His preference is "same as trader" for margin mode and leverage, paired with your own stop loss — because a stop loss overrides both. If you want the full checklist, our guide to setting stop losses and margin mode in copy trading covers it step by step.

He walks through all of this on Bitunix, which he rates as the easiest of the three to use, with BTCC close behind and MEXC offering a genuinely different trader-sorting interface. Signing up through an affiliate link on Bitunix can unlock a deposit bonus; the step-by-step Bitunix copy trading walkthrough mirrors the exact screens shown in the video.

Start Slow, Then Scale

The realistic version: allocate small, copy more than one trader, check position history weekly, and treat the first few months as tuition. Brian's free copy trading community at skool.com/crypto-profit has the full classroom — funding an exchange, copy trading basics, and platform-specific setup videos — if you'd rather follow along with someone instead of figuring out the settings alone.

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