⚠️Risk & Ratio Management
Copy trading can amplify profits — but it can amplify losses even faster. Even if you follow top-performing wallets, poor configuration can drain your balance quickly.
Effective risk management doesn’t eliminate losses. Its purpose is to ensure one bad trade never wipes you out and that you survive long enough to benefit from the leaders you follow.
When you copy a wallet, your account mirrors their actions — but not their bankroll, risk tolerance, or portfolio structure. This is why disciplined limits and filters matter.
Olympus provides several layers of protection, but the user must apply them intentionally.
😬 Risk Management
1️⃣ Don’t Go All-In
Never allocate your entire balance to one strategy, one wallet, or one market.
Preserve at least 50% of your total balance as a recovery buffer.
The goal is longevity, not maximizing size on every trade.
2️⃣ Follow the 5% Rule
A simple survival guideline:
Risk no more than ~5% of your total wallet per trade.
Example: If your balance is $1,000 → keep any single trade at or below ~$50.
This cap prevents a single bad prediction from derailing your entire portfolio.
3️⃣ Manage Trade Volume
Many high-volume traders open dozens of orders per day. Copying that behavior without limits can over-leverage your balance immediately.
Olympus allows you to set:
Max Trades per Market (e.g., limit to 2 entries)
Max Trades per Wallet (24h) (e.g., cap at 10 trades per leader per day)
These controls prevent trade spam, reduce exposure creep, and maintain predictable risk.
4️⃣ Filter Out Bad or Illiquid Markets
Under Risk & Market Filters, you can avoid markets that are statistically dangerous or operationally illiquid.
Useful protections include:
Minimum & Maximum Odds (e.g., skip below 15% or above 90%)
Minimum Liquidity (e.g., ≥$10,000 to ensure you can exit)
Minimum 24h Volume (e.g., ≥$5,000 to avoid dead markets)
Max Open Positions (e.g., cap total exposure across all markets)
Max Total Position per Market (e.g., limit to $50 per position)
These filters protect you from copying trades that your balance cannot realistically support.
5️⃣ Use Stop-Loss & Take-Profit
Automated exits keep losses contained and lock in profits without requiring manual monitoring.
Stop-Loss (%): Sell when the position falls by a certain percentage
Take-Profit (%): Sell once gains reach your set threshold
Useful for wallets trading highly volatile or fast-moving events.
6️⃣ Avoid Irrelevant or Ultra-Long Markets
Within Copy Behaviour Settings, you can skip:
⏱ Markets expiring too far into the future
💵 Microtrades
😅 Events outside your preferred timeframe
This helps keep your capital liquid and avoids being stuck in positions for weeks or months unnecessarily.
💡 Best Practices
✅ Start small — use minimal ratios and trade caps first. ✅ Use liquidity and volume filters to avoid dead markets. ✅ Cap per-market and per-wallet trades. ✅ Diversify your followed wallets and categories. ✅ Check your dashboard often — adjust settings as your balance changes.
🚨 Common Mistakes to Avoid
Setting a high ratio without understanding portfolio size differences.
Following hyperactive traders with no trade caps.
Ignoring liquidity and odds filters.
Assuming Olympus “auto-manages” your risk (it doesn’t — you do).
📐 Ratio Management
How to scale trades safely when copying wallets bigger (or smaller) than yours
When you copy trade on Olympus, the ratio determines how much of the leader’s trade size your wallet mirrors.
Because leader wallets vary wildly in size, choosing the right ratio is one of the most important parts of risk control.
Ratio mistakes are the #1 cause of user losses — not bad wallets, not market conditions, not volatility.
1️⃣🤔 What Exactly Is a Ratio?
The ratio is a percentage multiplier applied to the leader’s trade.
Example:
Leader buys $400 YES
Your ratio = 25% ➡ You copy $100 YES (unless your max trade limit is lower)
If ratio is too high, you end up risking much more than the leader relative to your balance. If ratio is too low, you barely participate.
2️⃣🧠 The Core Idea
Your ratio must reflect your balance vs. the leader’s total portfolio size (balance + all active positions).
If a wallet is 500× larger than you, you must copy them at a drastically smaller percentage—otherwise you’re overexposed instantly.
3️⃣🏦 Example:
User With $1,000 Following a Multi-Million Wallet
Let’s say:
You: $1,000 total portfolio
Leader: $2,000,000 total portfolio
That means the leader is: 👉 2,000× bigger than you
If the leader risks 3% of their portfolio on a trade:
3% of $2,000,000 = $60,000 trade
If you set your ratio to 3% also:
3% of your $1,000 = $30 trade …but here’s the catch:
4️⃣🔥 Safe Ratio Formula (Rule of Thumb)
When following wallets MUCH larger than you, use:
👉 Your Ratio ≈ Your Balance ÷ Leader Balance
Using the earlier example:
$1,000 ÷ $2,000,000 = 0.0005 → 0.05%
That is your safe copying ratio for that leader.
It means:
If they trade $60,000
You trade $30
5️⃣⭐ Olympus Makes This Easier
Every wallet in Olympus has a built-in:
🔄 Ratio Recalculator Button
You press it → Olympus recalculates the recommended ratio based on:
Your current portfolio
Leader’s current portfolio
All open positions
Total exposure
This tool updates the safe ratio for you automatically. (Note: It updates only when pressed — it is not live.)
6️⃣🧪 Example Scenarios
Scenario A:
Leader trades $20,000 per position
You have $1,000. Using the safe ratio formula:
$1,000 ÷ $2,000,000 = 0.05%
Leader trades $20,000
You copy 0.05% = $10
Safe, stable, sustainable.
Scenario B:
Leader trades small amounts (e.g., $300–$800)
If the leader is close to your size, you can use:
20%
50%
Even 100% ratio
Because the leader’s risk profile matches yours more closely.
Scenario C:
Leader is a whale who opens 50 trades per day
Even with a correct ratio, your total daily exposure might explode.
To protect yourself:
Use Max Trades per Wallet (24h)
Use Max Trades per Market
Add Max Open Positions limits
The ratio controls per trade risk, but these caps control total account risk.
⚠ Common Ratio Mistakes
Setting 5% ratio for a leader 1,000× bigger
Copying whale trades without caps
Increasing ratio after a win
Using the same ratio for all wallets
Ignoring open positions when calculating risk
🧩 Coming Soon
Dynamic Ratio Helper — warns if your ratio greatly exceeds a leader’s average risk.
🔚 TL;DR
Don’t copy blindly — match ratio to wallet size.
Limit your trade count and exposure.
Use odds, liquidity, and volume filters.
Keep losses survivable and profits sustainable.
Keep ratio in mind!
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