Copy Trading
Copy trading lets you pick a trader you rate and deploy an agent that mirrors their Hyperliquid perp fills into your own account, proportionally and around the clock. The agent runs in a dedicated wallet that you fund and can withdraw from at any time — whale.ag never takes custody of your money and never holds your keys. You commit an allocation, set the rules once, and the trader’s book becomes your right-sized version of it.
What an agent is
An agent watches a single trader and reproduces their perp trades against capital that belongs to you. When they open a position, add to it, or close it, the agent does the same — sized to your allocation rather than theirs, so you never need to match a whale’s bankroll to follow one. Every mirrored trade is a proportional slice of the trader’s move scaled to the money you put in.
Because the account is yours, the arrangement stays non-custodial from start to finish. You fund the agent from your Hyperliquid balance, the wallet remains under your control, and you can pull your capital out whenever you want — nobody can move it but you. The rules you set up front, from how aggressively to size to when to stop out, are enforced for you continuously without any watching of charts or manual copying.
Deploying an agent
You start from any trader profile or the rankings by choosing to copy that trader, which opens the copy configurator. There you set your allocation — how much to commit from your Hyperliquid balance, entered as an amount or a quick-amount. This is the capital the agent trades with and the ceiling on what is at risk; the minimum to deploy an agent is $250.
From there you can tune the config below or accept the defaults, then review a 1-year projection that shows how this allocation and trader would have performed over the past year, so you deploy with context rather than a guess. Deploying takes a single signature: you approve one transfer that funds the agent’s dedicated wallet, and it goes live and starts mirroring immediately. Managing, topping up, and withdrawing from a running agent all happen afterward on Managing Agents.
Config options
Each option maps directly to how the agent behaves. Defaults are sensible; change what you care about.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sizing multiplier | Scales each mirrored trade up or down relative to your allocation’s proportional share — track the trader more aggressively or dial risk back without changing your total allocation. |
| Portfolio stop-loss | A drawdown limit on the whole agent; if equity falls past it, the agent flattens and stops. A hard floor on how much you are willing to lose. |
| Cold-start | Whether to copy the trader’s already-open positions at deploy, or only mirror brand-new trades from then on. Set at deploy; it defines the agent’s starting book. |
| Mirror opens only | Copies new position openings but leaves exits to the trader’s close signals, keeping exit behavior predictable. |
| Direction (follow / inverse) | Mirror the trader as-is, or take the opposite side of every trade to fade one you think is consistently wrong. |
| Coin allowlist | Restricts the agent to a chosen set of markets, so you only copy the coins you actually want exposure to. |
| Minimum notional | Skips mirrored trades smaller than a set size, avoiding dust-sized positions and needless fees on tiny moves. |
| Slippage | The maximum price slippage the agent will accept when it mirrors a fill, protecting fills in fast markets. |
Copying the Alpha50 consensus
You do not have to pick a single trader. You can deploy an agent that copies the Alpha50 consensus instead — a hive of top wallets whose positions are combined by conviction into one strategy. It uses the same deploy flow and the same config options, giving you one crowd-sourced edge in place of one trader.
Good to know
Right-sizing is automatic: everything scales to your allocation, so you never match the trader’s capital. Cold-start is chosen once at deploy and decides whether the agent inherits open positions or starts clean. Trades carry Hyperliquid’s native builder fee, and withdrawing back out uses Hyperliquid’s native withdraw with a flat network fee; the details are in the FAQ. Everything else — editing config, topping up, taking profit, or winding the agent down — lives on Managing Agents.