- Follow anyone with one click — their posts arrive in your feed, and you choose who.
- Portfolios are public by choice — when someone opens theirs you see the positions and how they actually performed.
- Simulated, and free — nobody’s real money moves, no orders are copied to you, and there is no paywall or card.
What is a social trading platform?
A social trading platform lets you watch how other traders actually trade and use that to shape your own decisions, instead of researching in a vacuum. It puts a community next to the market data so you're not the only person in the room. The idea behind social trading is simple — you observe the behavior of your peers and more experienced traders, then make your own call.
Trade Together builds this on top of the tools you'd expect: interactive charts, a market heatmap, company financials, an earnings calendar and news. What's different is that the people are part of the product. "Creators" open their portfolios and share how their positions have gone, so you can learn from decisions instead of guessing from price alone. A community, not just a terminal.
And to be clear about what we are — and aren't. We're not a broker. Trading on Trade Together is simulated: holdings and results are tracked, but no real money is executed — you practice with paper trading instead. That's on purpose. It means you can learn in the open without wiring cash into a live account first.
What is copy trading, and how is it different from social trading?
Copy trading automatically executes another person's real trades inside your own brokerage account. Social trading is broader — you observe, learn, and decide for yourself, with no automatic execution. This distinction matters, because most of what shows up when you search "social trading platform" is actually forex copy-trading brokers, and the two aren't the same thing.
Regulators draw the line the same way. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority describes copy trading as the "automatic execution of trade signals," where once you authorise a provider, your account mirrors someone else's orders without you deciding trade by trade. That's real money, moving on autopilot.
Trade Together doesn't do that. You follow people, you watch real simulated portfolios and results, and every decision stays yours. No orders are copied to you. No real money moves. Here's how the three approaches line up:
| Social trading | Copy trading | Following on Trade Together | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it means | Watching and learning from a community of traders | Auto-replicating another person's trades in your account | Following real, simulated portfolios and learning from them |
| Whose trades run | Yours — informed by others | The trader you copy, mirrored automatically | Yours — you place your own simulated trades |
| Real or simulated money | Usually real, broker-linked | Real money, executed automatically | Simulated — holdings tracked, nothing executed |
| Who decides each trade | You | The system, once you switch it on | You, every time |
| Cost | Varies; often spreads or fees | Varies; often fees or spreads | Free. For everyone. |
The short version: copy trading hands the wheel to someone else. Social trading — the way we do it — keeps you driving, with more information than you'd have alone.
Is there a free social trading platform?
Yes. Trade Together is 100% free — no tiers, no trial, no paywall and no credit card. The research tools and the community are free for everyone, and they stay that way while you use them. Free. For everyone.
This is the part people expect a catch on, so let's be blunt about it. There's no "pro" plan gated behind the good features. There's no free week that quietly starts billing you. You don't hand over card details to look around. The whole platform — charts, heatmap, financials, earnings, news, community and creator portfolios — is open from the first click. Plans, not promises.
Why give it away? Because a community only works when everyone can actually get in the door. Paywalling the people you'd learn from would defeat the point. So we didn't.
How do you follow another trader's portfolio?
You follow with one click, and from then on you see the portfolios and results that trader has chosen to make public. Following is opt-in on both sides: creators decide what to share, and you decide who to watch. Nothing about someone's account is exposed unless they've turned it on.
That's what the public/private toggle is for. A creator can open a portfolio and its profit-and-loss for everyone to see, or keep it private. When it's public, you get the useful part — which positions they hold, how those positions have performed over time, and how the whole portfolio is doing — as simulated results, not marketing screenshots. You choose who to follow, and you can change your mind whenever you like.
Because it's all simulated, there's no pressure baked into the moment. Following someone doesn't move your money or theirs. It just gives you a clearer window into how another person is actually trading, so you can learn from it at your own pace. Not investment advice — a public portfolio is one person's decisions, not a recommendation for yours.
How do you tell if a trader is actually any good?
You judge them on results and a transparent track record over time — not follower counts, not confident posting, not how loud someone is. A big audience tells you someone is popular. It doesn't tell you their calls worked. Follow results, not follower counts.
This is the core of how Trade Together is built. Creators share real, simulated portfolios and P/L, so instead of taking a claim on faith, you can look at how positions actually played out — the ones that worked and the ones that didn't. A track record you can inspect over weeks and months is worth far more than a single screenshot of a winning trade. Look for consistency, look at how someone handles a loss, and look at whether the whole portfolio holds up, not just the highlight reel.
One honest caveat: past results don't guarantee future ones. A strong track record is useful evidence, not a promise. Use it to decide who's worth learning from — then make your own decisions. That's the whole point of doing this yourself instead of copying on autopilot.
Is social trading profitable, and is it legal?
Watching and learning from other traders is legal — it's exactly what a social trading platform is for. Whether it's profitable depends entirely on the decisions you make, because on Trade Together those decisions are yours. There's no honest way to promise a number, so we won't.
Here's the grown-up version. All investments involve some degree of risk, and results vary from person to person and period to period. Because trading on Trade Together is simulated, you're not risking real money here — which makes it a genuinely low-stakes way to learn how you'd actually behave before anything is on the line. What you do outside the platform, with a real broker, is on you.
On the legal side: learning from a community, sharing your own simulated portfolio, and following people who chose to make theirs public are all ordinary, above-board activities. We're not a broker, we don't execute real trades, and we don't hand you buy/sell tips to act on. Everything here is educational. This is not investment advice, and nothing on the platform should be treated as a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Learning, Trading, Improving — Together. That's the loop. You watch real results, you form your own view, you get better at it, and the community gets better with you — come meet the community.
The hard part of social trading is not showing someone’s wins — it is making the losses impossible to remove. So the trade log is append-only: there is no delete button, because the database itself refuses the operation, for members and administrators alike. Closing a losing position is recorded as a trade, so exiting a loser leaves a mark rather than erasing one.
The second half is the boundary. You can type in the portfolio you owned before you joined, but those positions are labelled, coloured differently, and count towards nothing anyone else sees. The line between the two is your join date — a row the server wrote the day the account was created, which nobody can move. Both decisions cost us features people asked for. They are the only reason a public track record here is worth reading.
We have no testimonials. The platform is new and we are not going to invent any. What we have instead is the thing testimonials are a proxy for: every position opened through the app is priced and timestamped by us and written to a log that cannot be edited or deleted by anyone, including an administrator. Losses stay in. A member’s own typed-in history is kept separate, labelled, and counts towards nothing anyone else sees.
Free, no credit card, no tier. Trading here is simulated, and none of this is investment advice.