In both PAMM and Copy Trading, traders can define a minimum deposit that investors must meet to join a strategy.
This isn’t a restriction — it’s a protection mechanism for:
The minimum deposit logic is enforced slightly differently across PAMM and Copy Trading:
This ensures that no undercapitalized investors are added to the strategy — and protects trade logic and allocation.
In PAMM, every deposit or withdrawal triggers a reallocation during rollover.
With many small investors constantly moving in and out, this can happen daily — or even multiple times per day.
This leads to visible balance operations on investor accounts like:
For less experienced investors, this may seem confusing or suspicious:
“Why did my balance just change?”
“Is this a fee? Is something broken?”
A higher minimum helps avoid constant micro-reallocations and keeps investor experience clean and professional.
Internally, PAMM works with up to 8 decimal places.
But final P\&L is distributed in account currency precision — typically two decimal places (e.g., $0.01 in USD).
Example:
If a trade earns $1 and there are 1,000 investors:
This creates:
Setting a higher minimum ensures each investor gets a fair and accurate share of profits — and reduces rounding bias.
Example:
Imran runs a gold grid strategy that opens and scales 40+ positions.
For this system to work properly, each new deposit must be large enough to support the next grid layer — otherwise, he can’t scale volume without breaking balance.
He calculated that $10,000 is the minimum capital required to keep risk and profit ratios intact.
If smaller investors join with $1,000–$2,000, the PAMM platform will reallocate all existing positions at current prices.
This forces the system to rebalance and lock in partial P\&L — which reduces yield for earlier investors who joined at better prices.
To prevent that, Imran set a $10,000 minimum deposit.
Now, only investors with enough capital to fully participate in the grid logic can subscribe — and his current followers enjoy stable, uninterrupted compounding.
The minimum isn’t a filter — it’s protection for the strategy’s internal mechanics and early investors’ edge.
Example:
Mikhail noticed $100 investors joined, panicked during drawdown, and exited 2 days later.
He raised the minimum to $1,000. Result: better capital retention, more committed clients.
Example:
Julia runs a conservative, fund-style PAMM.
She wants serious clients — not short-term gamblers.
Her $5,000 minimum filters in exactly the kind of investors she wants.
Example:
Artem’s inbox was full of tickets like:
“Why did I earn $0.63?”
“Can I withdraw $9?”
After enforcing a $1,000 minimum, his support load dropped — and investor quality rose.
Example:
Andreas from Germany runs a strategy that layers multiple positions during market retracements.
His master account has $20,000 and uses moderate leverage — but the floating drawdown can reach \-15% before reversal.
When he enabled copy trading, many small investors joined with $100–$300.
On a \-10% move, Andreas was still in control — but those followers hit margin calls and were force-closed.
They never saw the recovery — and blamed him for their losses.
Worse, some of them complained to the broker and left negative reviews:
“The trader is profitable, but I lost money. How is this fair?”
After that, Andreas enforced a $1,000 minimum deposit for new followers.
Now only accounts with enough margin can stay in through volatility — and investors are better aligned with his strategy logic.
The minimum deposit protects not just investors, but the trader’s track record and reputation.
Example:
Jonas is a systematic trader from Sweden.
He trades with a fixed logic: 0.1 lots per $1,000. This lets him control risk exactly — 1% risk per trade, every time.
But in copy trading, not all followers use the same capital.
Some join with $1,000. Others — with just $50 or $100.
Here’s the issue:
In the B2Copy system, trade sizes are rounded up to ensure that even small accounts can follow trades.
That sounds helpful — but it comes with a hidden cost.
Let’s say Jonas opens a trade for 0.1 lots in his master account.
A $50 investor technically qualifies for 0.005 lots — but since 0.01 is the smallest possible, the system rounds up and executes 0.01.
That’s double the intended exposure.
The result?
Investors:
After several months of this, Jonas received confused and frustrated messages:
“Why am I losing more than you?”
“Your risk doesn’t match what I see.”
“I trust your strategy, but my stats look worse.”
To fix this, Jonas enforced a $500 minimum deposit — ensuring that:
Now investor results are consistent — and Jonas protects both his strategy’s integrity and investor trust.
Too little capital forces the system to overexpose investors.
A minimum deposit keeps risk aligned — exactly as designed.
Minimum deposit protects both sides of the trade:
Don’t apologize for the minimum — promote it as a feature:
“This strategy is professionally managed.
The minimum deposit ensures fair distribution, stable capital, and proper system performance.”