Risk Rules for Copy Trading

A source can be sharp and still ruin an account that sizes like a dare. Copy trading without rules is just faster typing. Your rules are the part Merc will not let the source override.

Merc refuses what you would refuse. That sentence is literal. Parser confidence, missing stops, pair policy, position caps, kill switches. The desk stores the reason.

Size is how much of your Futures equity one ticket may put at risk. A percent of equity, or a fixed USDT risk, is a decision you can explain to yourself. A signal that says all-in is not a decision. It is a mood.

Merc sizes from your risk setting rather than from the source's swagger. That keeps two followers of the same Discord community from taking the same nominal pain on very different accounts.

Leverage is a multiplier on the venue. It is not extra skill. Higher leverage makes a small adverse move liquidate you sooner. Merc sizes tickets from your risk settings and stop. If you set a max leverage ceiling, the ticket stays at or under that ceiling. A signal that asks for more leverage than you allow does not get a friendly rewrite into a bigger bet.

A stop is the price where the plan admits it was wrong. Take-profit is where the plan banks a piece. On Merc, a missing stop can be a hard refuse if you require one. That default exists because Discord messages forget the stop more often than they forget the pair.

• Required stop: no stop in the message, no order.
• Optional fallback stop: only if you chose that policy on purpose.
• Targets: attached when the plan names them and your rules allow.

Stops can slip in a fast market. A rule reduces exposure. It does not print a floor under the candle.

Max concurrent positions stop a hot night from stacking five correlated longs. Daily stop rules exist so a source that is wrong four times does not keep firing into the same bruise.

Unarmed sources are ignored for execution. You can follow a room and still keep it dark until you are ready. That is a rule too.

Rules cannot make a source right. They cannot hold your funds off-exchange. They cannot promise profit. They can keep a bad message off your MEXC book. That is enough to be worth writing down before you arm anything.

If the venue itself is still fuzzy, read Mexc Futures For Beginners. If you want the execution spine, read How Merc Works.