Awesome, will there be like the ability to follow certain people? For instance if John Smith made a bunch of great trades, you could set your platform to follow his? Or will it be just specific trends in general?
Yup, that is exactly what Social Trading is
You will be able to mimic all John Smiths trades (and also set a limit to how much you actually trade, of course, to limit liability to what the user feels comfortable with).
is this something like etoro? i'm just curious about how the bot will duplicate someones trading strategy, i'm sure if this can be programmed this system
will be more interesting to follow, hope to see more updates and more information about this new project, good luck dev.
Hi Golftech, great question.
Yes it is like eToro's Social Trading platform, except we are obviously dealing with real crypto assets vs eToros speculation on crypto assets.
The way the Social Trading engine will work is that folio.ninja will track the trades of all users on the platform via the API integration with the exchanges we integrate with. So when you trade on Bittrex and you buy some ETH with some BTC, that will be logged in folio.ninja to update your portfolio summary so you can keep track of your ROI. On top of that it will add the trade metadata, with all relevant information, to your profile. If you decide as a user to publish your trade history to the platform (either under your real name, alias or fully anonymous) other users will be able to see your ROI's and see that you have been strategically buying ETH during dips and selling at peaks, and you have been doing REALLY well. Other users will then be like "hey, I want to copy this person so that when they trade ETH, I trade ETH."
When a user chooses to mimic another user, after reviewing their profile stats, the Automated Trading Bot will latch onto that users trades and copy them via API to your preferred exchange. You will be able to set granular conditions on the trades so if you are mimicking someone who is doing massive trades you can just say you only want to trade 5 ETH at a time or a percentage of what the person you are copying is trading. You will also be able to set stop losses on the trades in order to limit your liability whilst you are not monitoring the bot.
Also, people that choose to publish their trading stats will be paid for every follower they have, inversely users that choose to follow someone else will need to pay to do so. Payment will be in FLN tokens. The price for this service has not been set yet and will be up for community discussion on what is the fairest way for both sides.
I hope this has answered your question. Please let me know if you have any others!
Cheers,
Aron