Terms

The rules the subscription runs on: where the money sits, what you pay, what you risk and how to leave. All on one page, so you do not have to collect it across the site.

The money stays yours

You open your own account with Tickmill and subscribe to copying. The funds stay there the whole time: I take no transfers, have no access to your account, and can neither trade on it by hand nor withdraw anything from it. Trades are copied by the platform, not by a person.

What you pay

The fee is a percentage of profit and of profit only: no profit, no fee. The platform withholds it, and only on gains above the account’s previous high, so months that merely recover a past loss cost nothing.

The public rate is 30%, an ordinary figure for this market: copying usually costs 25–30%. Until 7 September 2027 a rate of 20% is available on request, through a separate subscription link: while the live track record is still being built, charging everyone the full rate does not seem right to me. Once a subscription is set up its terms do not change — whoever joined at 20% stays at 20%.

How much money you need

The minimum for copying is $1,000, four times the platform’s own threshold of $250. Below that the position size hits the minimum lot and a subscriber gets a different strategy from the one shown in the figures. Full agreement with the stated risk starts at $2,000.

What you are risking

Risk per trade is 1% of the account, and a stop is placed on every position. Across 5 years of calculation the deepest drawdown was 22.6% by equity and 18.1% by closed trades. On a $1,000 account that means roughly $774 would have been left at the worst moment.

Deeper drawdowns have happened and will happen: reshuffling the trades across thousands of variants gives a median of about a quarter of the deposit, and every fifth variant goes below 30%. That is not a failure but the ordinary working of the system — the full breakdown is on the Backtests page.

What you may do with the account

The account is yours and I cannot forbid you anything. But bear in mind: if you close positions by hand, or add and withdraw money mid-run, your result will drift away from mine and there will be nothing left to compare. Copying is executed at current market prices, so a small difference is always there.

How to stop

You can unsubscribe at any moment, without notice and without a minimum term. Open positions are closed at the current price when you leave. The money stays in your account; taking it out is the broker’s ordinary withdrawal procedure.

What I do not promise

No fixed return, no profit every month, no repeat of past results. The calculation on history shows how the system behaved between 2021 and 2026 and says nothing about the future. Trading on borrowed money, on your last savings, or on money you will need within the year is a bad idea regardless of whose strategy it is.

What you can verify yourself

All 3,291 trades of the calculation are published as a single file, and a small script recomputes the site’s key figures from it — total, drawdown, profit factor, share of winning trades and average RR — and checks them against what is written here. The live account is visible in the Tickmill card and on Myfxbook, an independent service where the statistics are not computed by the author. Nothing has to be taken on faith.

Download all trades (CSV) · Download the verification script (Python)