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Introduction
Hi and congratulations for downloading this ebook!
If you did it, its because you probably want to start
getting the same revenues of a professional
trader.
If you are still wondering if this is really possible the
answer is YES!
We have written a mini guide that will show you, in 10
simple steps, exactly what to do (and the order to do
it) in order to invest professionally in Social
Trading.
Social Trading is becoming the new frontier in the
investment world, a fact now recognized and regulated
by the various supervisory authorities.
Therefore, you have to invest in it with the seriousness
it deserves. The first thing to do is avoid trusting in
makeshift experts, providing useless and sometimes
even harmful advice.

Some of our Advanced Courses and of our tool, despite

being free, are reserved to the users who open a live
account through our affiliate link (an easy and quick

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All the material you can find in InvestinGoal is

free (although, given the high added value and the
exclusivity of the content, we do not exclude that in the
future it may require a fee, at least for new members).

operation). This action allows you to access the

reserved material, at no extra cost.
You will not have to pay anything extra for having
access to our reserved material, given that we will be
paid from the Social Trading company to which you
signed up. A classic win-win situation.
Of course, we only cooperate with the best
companies on the international scene.
So, as you see, it's all at your fingertips, and
everything is really free. If you want to start investing
with Social Trading you only need a new real account...
but opened through our link, and you're done.
We tried to make it as concise and operational as
possible. If, despite our attempt to maintain a simple
and direct language, some terms or concepts may
appear to be difficult to understand, dont worry: at
every step you will find cross-references to in-depth
sections that will help you understand.

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Dont waste any more time. As someone said "money

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been developed thanks to our direct
experience with three of the leading
company in the Social Trading sector:

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account with all three, so that you can choose
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Open Ayondo Demo Account

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DISCLAIMER

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The present eBook is intended for teaching purposes

only. It shall not be intended as operational advice for
investments, nor as an invitation to public savings
raising. Any real or simulated result shall represent no
warranty as to possible future performances. The
speculative activity in forex market, as well as in other
markets, implies considerable economic risks; anyone
who carries out speculative activity does it on its own
responsibility. The Authors accept no responsibility for
any possible direct or indirect damage arising from the
readers investment decisions.

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INDEX
1 Choose a Social Trading company .....................9
Reliability ............................................................. 9
Offered services .................................................. 10
Financial Asset .................................................... 14
Accessibility ....................................................... 17
2 Basic understanding of the platform ...............18
Understanding the data provided about the Trader .. 18
The importance of Drawdown ............................... 19
3 Investors Profile ............................................20
How much capital do I have to invest? ................... 21
What is my risk target? ........................................ 22
What is my return target? .................................... 23
4 Searching and finding the best traders ...........24
The perfect trader ............................................... 24
Techniques to search traders ................................ 25
5 Analysing the traders ......................................27
Signal Style to understand the traders nature ........ 27
Analyzing and correlating data .............................. 28
Using Analyzer to automate the analysis ................ 29
6 Creating a People-Based portfolio ...................31
Exploiting Asset Allocation Master ......................... 32
Creating a Logbook ............................................. 34

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The correct subdivision ........................................ 31

7 Timing techniques ...........................................35

Identifying the time to start replicating .................. 35
8 Periodic portfolio monitoring ..........................37
ZuluTrade Refunds control ................................... 38
9 Managing the positions ...................................40
Managing winning or losing positions ..................... 40
Increasing volumes ............................................. 41
Cashing the profits .............................................. 42
10 When to eliminate a trader from portfolio .....43
Eliminating a trader from the portfolio ................... 43

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11 Getting the Advanced Courses FOR FREE ......45

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Choose a Social Trading
company
The first thing you need to do is figuring out which
company to use in order to start your social trader
path.
Having to entrust it your money, you will need to
make sure that it has high standards in terms of:

Reliability
Services and Technology
Financial Assets
Accessibility

Reliability

Social Trading is no exception. For this reason, its

important to entrust your capital and your Social
Trading activity to SOLID sector experts. Usually the
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The investment world is full of charlatans. Unserious

companies, disguising themselves behind an attractive
site with the false promise to make you earn huge
sums of money, are a daily occurrence.

ones who claim to be so are regulated and supervised,

for the territories in which they operate, from various
local control and supervisory authorities.
Heres the 4 companies that, at the time we are writing
this guide, are recognized by users and by authorities
as the greatest exponents of Social Trading for the type
of service offered, the quality of their technology and
the regulations to which they are subject:

eToro
ZuluTrade
Ayondo
Darwinex

With each of these companies you can open a demo

account in seconds, designed to let you try the same
experience of a real account.

Each of the above companies has its own

characteristics and peculiarities, as well as its own way
of interpreting Social Trading. This of course is reflected
in the offer to the clients.

eToro
Its a broker with Advanced Social Trading Services. In
this company the social aspect of Social Trading is very
developed, more developed than in any other reality.
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Offered services

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EToro provides a platform very similar to Facebook,

within which you can deal directly with investors. You
can communicate directly with traders, trying to
understand the reasons that pushed them to do a
certain move, even though they often explain their own
motives.
EToro then gives you the option to operate in two
ways:
As a Follower: for every action made by the traders
you're following, you will receive notifications. With
this option you can decide whether and how to
replicate on your account the transaction made by
the trader, by manually copying it
As a Copy Trader: by activating the Copy Trading
option for the traders you want to include your
people-based portfolio, the trades made by your
traders will be replicated automatically in your
account.The trading signals replication technology
works very well, as all data flows on the same
eToro proprietary environment.

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ZuluTrade
Another important Social trading pillar, in this company
the social aspect is not as developed as in eToro. In
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ZuluTrade users can only make judgments on the

trader quality, on whether he complies or not with the
declared strategy, and they can leave comments on the
trader public board, but there is no real social network.
The most developed activity is certainly Copy Trading,
for which ZuluTrade provides a wide range of
operational details related to its Signal Providers
strategies and the possibility of a very advanced
replication customization.
About these two possibilities, ZuluTrade is definitely the
best.
The Copy Trading service can be used either through
AAAFX, proprietary ZuluTrade broker (which is no
longer mandatory, as it has been for a while for those
investing in Europe, following the alignment to MiFID II,
but which is still highly recommended), or through
other affiliated brokers. By using the AAAFX broker, the
operating signals replication is certainly better, since
the servers are in the same environment in which the
Copy Trading platform operates.
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Ayondo
Another important regulated Social Trading reality is
Ayondo.
Here the social aspect is definitely not present, but you
can enjoy a good Copy Trading service and a
comprehensive selection of financial assets in which the
Top Traders can invest.
Currently the Top Traders are not many, but the
selling point is the fact that they are rewarded if they
can maintain a solid and not very risky strategy,
with limited DrawDowns, consequently with low risks.
This compensates for the poor customization choices of
the replication processes.
To use Ayondo you rely on its integrated broker who
offers good spread conditions and also allows you to
operate with quantities even inferior of microlots,
allowing you to replicate Top Traders operations even
with minimum capital.

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So if you only have minimum capital (a few hundred

dollars or Euros), Ayondo might be the right fit.
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Darwinex
Recently introduced, this platform goes a little beyond
the traditional Social Trading rules, to get closer to
Copy Investing. Darwinex also is a broker in the true
sense of the word, and has a really competitive
brokerage offer.
It provides a replication service through the
purchase of Darwins, synthetic investment
instruments they invented to allow you to replicate the
trader performance without revealing his operational
strategies, automatically moderating the exposure to
risk.
It doesnt provide any social aspect and not even an
interesting depth analysis on traders. The signals
replication is still at a good level, and its structure
facilitates the approach to even the most novice
investors, even though it doesnt allow optimal
analytical skills.

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Financial Asset
Another important decision element is the amount of
instruments on which traders can work to make a

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profit, and that allow them, and consequently you, a

good portfolio diversification.
Given the presence of reverse or direct correlations
between some markets or financial instruments, it may
be useful to have a good assortment within the
portfolio, so that the negative variance moments of
some can be compensated by the positive variance of
others.
The correlation between different assets is an
interesting and important element, but dont forget that
what matters most, and that makes the difference, is
the trader's strategy. Youll find investors who get
excellent profits while working on a single financial
instrument, having the ability to buy or sell it at the
right time.

eToro

Stocks
Currencies
Bitcoin
Commodities (limited to precious metals, natural
gas and oil)
Indexes
ETF (Exchanged Trades Funds)

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Its the company that provides the widest range of

negotiable instruments. Through its CFDs you can work
on:

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ZuluTrade
Its extending its products range and now offers the
possibility to work on:

Currencies
Indexes
commodities (gold, copper, oil, natural gas)
binary options

Ayondo
Also this company provides a great range of products,
in some ways even superior to eToro:

Currencies
American, European and Asian indexes
Interest rates
Bonds
Stocks

Not bad also the offer of the newcomer Darwinex,

extended to:
All major currencies
Commodities (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, oil)
Indexes

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Darwinex

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Accessibility
The great thing about Social Trading is the possibility
to get the returns of a Professional Trader... with
no need to be one. So, not having to stand all day in
front of a monitor, you can spend your time doing what
you normally do, from following your hobbies to going
to work.
Therefore, a big comfort is definitely represented by
having access to their services using as many devices
as possible.

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At the moment, only eToro and ZuluTrade provide a full

version of their platform accessible from mobile and
tablet APPs. Ayondo and Darwinex havent got any yet,
but theyre working on it. This doesnt mean that they
should be excluded beforehand, but only that before
choosing them you must also consider your position
and whether or not you have the possibility to use a PC
connected to the Internet.

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