Most explanations online stop at the definition. The problem with that: “a performance fee is a success-based charge” does not answer the question you actually have — namely how much of it really comes off in the end. That is why every term on this page is followed by a calculated figure from the 62 trading days we have documented since Jul 1, 2026.
The CopyX setting that determines the factor by which your deposit is represented in the trading account.
Amplify is not a trading term but a setting in the CopyX interface. It determines how large the trading capital is in relation to what you actually paid in. With Amplify set to 24, a deposit of $1,000 is represented as $24,000 in the trading account.
This is why the figure in the trading terminal is never the figure you transferred — and why every return depends on which of the two it refers to.
In our own numbers
On Sep 25, 2026, one of our community trading accounts showed $480,288.59. The amount actually paid in was $20,012.02 — the same figure divided by 24.
The number behind Amplify — and the answer to the question of which sum a percentage refers to.
A profit is only ever as meaningful as its reference value. The same amount produces a small figure when measured against the terminal balance and a 24 times larger one when measured against the money actually paid in. Both are arithmetically correct, but only one answers the question people really have.
Throughout this website we state the return on the money actually paid in. That is the real figure: it is the larger one, and that is precisely why the 24x factor is always stated alongside it.
In our own numbers
The trade on Sep 25, 2026 produced $158.38 after commission. Measured against the account balance of $480,288.59 that is +0.03% — measured against the $20,012.02 actually paid in it is +0.79%. Same amount, two reference values.
The unit of measurement for position size. With gold, 1 lot equals 100 troy ounces.
The lot answers the question of what a price move is worth in money. If the gold price moves by one dollar per ounce, that is $100 on one lot and $10 on 0.1 lot.
In CopyX Trading the lot grows with the capital: the same signal is replicated on a larger account with a larger position. That is why our journal shows fractional lot sizes rather than round numbers.
In our own numbers
The trade on Sep 25, 2026 ran over 0.36 lots, i.e. 36.00 ounces of gold. The price moved $4.51 per ounce in our direction, which produced $161.97 in gross profit.
What matters here
Anyone doing the arithmetic will arrive at a slightly different amount. That is down to the display: entry and exit are shown to two decimal places, while settlement uses the actual execution prices, which are finer.
A fixed charge per lot traded — regardless of whether the trade wins or loses.
Unlike the performance fee, the commission depends on position size rather than on the result. It is charged for opening and for closing and is debited directly from the account.
We never leave it out of our arithmetic: the daily increase in the account is always trading profit minus commission, and only then is the percentage calculated.
In our own numbers
Sep 25, 2026: $3.59 on 0.36 lots. On the trade before that it was $3.52 on 0.35 lots — around $10.01 per lot both times, for opening and closing together.
The gap between the buy and the sell price — the price of getting into the market at all.
A buyer always pays slightly more than they would receive by selling at the same moment. That difference is the spread. It is not an item on an invoice; it is already contained in the price at which a position is opened.
That makes the spread the least conspicuous of all costs: it never appears anywhere as a deduction, it is simply already included.
In our own numbers
We deliberately do not state the spread as a separate figure — we could not document it. What our journal contains are the actual entry and exit prices from the account statement. The spread is already included in them and is not to be deducted on top.
At the end of a winning day there are three options. Only one of them is what we call compounding: actively paying the profit back in — because a deposit counts 24x in the trading account.
At the end of a winning day there is a net profit, and there are exactly three things that can be done with it. First: simply leave it sitting in the account. Second: withdraw it and take it out of trading. Third: actively reinvest it, that is, pay it back into the account as a new deposit. Only the third route is what compounding means here, and it is what most accounts in our community do every day.
The difference lies in what a deposit does in the trading account: it is counted at 24x. A profit that merely sits there is not — it is simply booked credit. An example with round numbers: someone paying in $10,000 trades with $240,000. If a day produces 0.50% net, that is $50. Anyone actively paying those $50 back in has then paid in $10,050 and has $241,200 in the trading account — $1,200 more instead of $50. The next day is traded on that larger basis.
In practice there is a lower limit: withdrawing, and therefore reinvesting, is only possible from $10 upwards. On a small account the daily profit therefore does not clear that threshold every day — the amount then accumulates first before it can be paid back in.
That is the whole mechanism: same percentage, larger basis, larger amount. In savings-account language this is called compound interest. In the first week there is barely anything to see; over many days the difference becomes clear — which is why everything on this site is chained and never added up. It works in both directions: after a losing day the basis is smaller. And anyone choosing option one or two forgoes the effect — that is not a mistake but a decision everyone makes for themselves.
In our own numbers
Across 62 trading days since Jul 1, 2026, simply adding up the net daily returns gives +42.32%. Chained — that is, with daily reinvestment — it is +52.38%. $10,000 would thus have become $15,237.52 instead of $14,232.00; the difference of 10.06 percentage points is nothing other than compounding.
Recalculate both curves with your own amountThe decline from the previous peak — the figure that shows how bumpy a track record was.
An overall return says nothing about what happened along the way. The drawdown measures exactly that: how far things fell from the last high before they moved up again.
For the question of whether someone can live with a track record, it is the more honest figure than the final result.
In our own numbers
Across 62 documented trading days there were 2 losing days: Jul 2, 2026 at −0.61%, Aug 4, 2026 at −0.21%. The best day in the same period was Sep 4, 2026 at +3.19% gross.
What matters here
That is our experience in precisely this period and says nothing about what comes next. A period without larger setbacks is no evidence that there will not be any.
The share of trades closed in profit. Meaningful only together with the size of the wins and the losses.
A high win rate on its own says little: it can be achieved by taking profits early and letting losses run. Conversely, a rate below 50% can lead to a good result if the winners are considerably larger than the losers.
What is being counted also matters. We count per trade, not per day — on a day with two trades and one winner we record 1 out of 2, not one winning day.
In our own numbers
79 out of 90 trades across 62 trading days were closed in profit, which is 87.78%. Counted per trade.
The symbol for gold against the US dollar — the only pair traded with the SONIC strategy. XAU is the currency code for one troy ounce of gold.
The price states how many US dollars one troy ounce of gold costs. What is traded is the price, not physical gold — nothing is delivered and nothing is stored.
The SONIC strategy trades this one pair exclusively: no other currencies, no shares or indices, no crypto assets. Every trade in this journal is a gold trade — so the figures on this page are throughout the result of a single market.
Gold reacts strongly to interest rate decisions, inflation data and geopolitical news. That keeps the market moving, which for short-term strategies is both a precondition and a risk.
In our own numbers
All 90 trades across the 62 documented trading days ran on XAU/USD. The prices in our journal range from $3,998.12 to $4,643.24 per ounce.
The orders of a signal provider are replicated automatically on your own account. The account stays yours throughout.
With CopyX Trading, no money is handed over to a manager. The trading account is in your own name, the connection can be disconnected, and every booking appears in your own account statement.
What is replicated is the signal, not the amount: on a larger account the same position is opened on a larger scale. The percentage return is therefore identical across all connected accounts; the amount is not.
In our own numbers
That is exactly what this website rests on: the figures here come from our own account statements — not from a set of statistics someone showed us.
The broker passes the order on to the market instead of taking the opposite side itself.
Under the A-book model the broker earns from commission and spread — regardless of whether the client wins or loses. Under the opposite model (B-book) the broker takes the other side itself; the client loss is then its revenue.
This is the question of the conflict of interest, and it is one of the few worth genuinely clarifying before opening an account.
In our own numbers
How to check this yourself for a specific provider — contracting party from the terms, register of the supervisory authority, comparing the licensed activity with what is being offered — is set out in detail on our page “Check for yourself”.
Check for yourselfWhere the numbers come from
All figures on this page come from the same account statements the monthly review and the daily videos are calculated from. None of them is typed in by hand: they are recalculated from the trading data on every trading day, so the page does not go stale unnoticed.
The calculation is open: gross return is the account increase after commission, measured against the real deposit. Net is the same value minus the 30 % performance fee. Monthly and overall figures are compounded, not added up.
If you want to check for yourself, the full calculation is in the trading model, the daily figures are in the journal calculator and the months are in the monthly reports.
Questions about one of these terms?
We explain in the community how the numbers come about — and show the account statements behind them. So you can form your own view.
To the community
All content consists of experience reports from our own trading and is intended to help you form your own view. Not investment advice, not a recommendation and not a promise of returns. Past results say nothing about future ones. Trading leveraged products involves considerable risk.