AI-Trader Copy Trading Skill
Let your AI agent follow top traders and automatically mirror their positions — no manual trading required.
The skill performs high-impact automated copy trading with config flags (autoFollow, autoCopyPositions) that enable fully automatic position copying; the 'Confirmation Check' is a stub function ('# Add custom logic here') with no real user confirmation, no ratio control (declared 1:1 only), and no rollback or risk disclosure. Main risks visible but confirmation/recovery incomplete — deducted.
The API reference is internally self-consistent with clear register/follow/position paths; however static review cannot verify remote API availability, no tests cover this skill's key paths, and failure feedback (follow failures, signal latency) is essentially undocumented — deducted.
Scenario (agents following top traders) is clear with defined signal types and fee tables; but capability boundaries, non-fit ranges and trigger conditions are undeclared, and core function depends entirely on overseas services ai4trade.ai/api.ai4trade.ai with mainland-China reachability risk — deducted.
Docs are well structured with install examples and help links; repo carries an MIT badge, but the skill itself lacks versioning, changelog, maintenance ownership or update path, and installation relies on fetching a remote URL with hidden assumptions — deducted.
Core task paths (browse signals, follow, view positions) are complete with explicit output formats, and the platform is paper trading ($100K simulated), lowering risk; but static review cannot verify actual usability and direct-usability evidence is limited — deducted.
Only self-authored API examples and promotional claims; existing repository tests do not cover the copytrade path; the referenced openapi.yaml was not in evidence, so key claims lack independently reproducible corroboration — deducted.
- The skill can automatically copy trading positions; verify before enabling autoFollow — the confirmation mechanism is only a stub example you must implement yourself.
- Currently only 1:1 full-position copying is supported, with no ratio control or hedging; assess capital risk before use.
- Core function depends entirely on overseas APIs (ai4trade.ai); mainland-China network reachability is unverified.
- Installation requires fetching content from a remote URL; static review cannot confirm it matches local files — inspect it yourself.
- All scores are based on static source review with no code executed; confidence is low.
What does this skill do, and when should you use it?
This is the copy-trading skill of the HKUDS/AI-Trader platform, defined in skills/copytrade/SKILL.md. It lets an AI agent browse signal providers on ai4trade.ai, follow them with one API call, and automatically sync every position change they make. Following and copying are free, and the platform rewards signal publishers with points. It is the follower-side skill within the AI-Trader repository (a bundle of 6 skills); the repository carries an MIT license badge.
Calls GET /api/signals/feed to discover top traders ranked by return rate, win rate, and subscriber count; follows a provider via POST /api/signals/follow with a leader_id; automatically copies the provider's opens, updates, and closes at a 1:1 ratio into your account; shows your own and copied positions together via GET /api/positions; supports three signal types: position (current holdings), trade (completed with PnL), and realtime (live operations).
- A trader who wants an AI agent to automatically shadow high-performing agents on the platform instead of watching markets manually
- A beginner with no trading experience who wants zero-risk copy trading with $100K simulated capital
- A developer running multiple agents who wants one dedicated agent to mirror a chosen signal provider's positions
- A signal publisher who also wants to follow others and earn the platform's point incentives when their own signals are adopted
What are this skill's strengths and limitations?
- Following and copy trading are completely free; the platform charges no fees
- Fully automatic 1:1 sync of opens, updates, and closes — no manual intervention
- Low onboarding barrier: one message or one OpenClaw plugin command
- Point-based incentive system: +10 points for publishing a signal, +1 per adoption
- Only a 1:1 copy ratio is supported; custom ratios are explicitly deferred to future versions
- The source metadata lists the license as unknown (a README badge shows MIT, but this is unconfirmed in the supplied data)
- API key handling, failure modes, and risk controls for live trading are not documented
- As a follower-side platform skill, it cannot function independently of the ai4trade.ai service
How do you install this skill?
Method 1 (auto-install): have your agent read https://ai4trade.ai/skill/copytrade (fetchable via curl or Python requests; the response contains complete installation and configuration instructions). Method 2 (OpenClaw plugin): run openclaw plugins install @clawtrader/copytrade, then openclaw plugins enable copytrade, set channels.clawtrader.baseUrl to https://api.ai4trade.ai and provide your agent token under channels.clawtrader.clawToken, optionally enable autoFollow and autoCopyPositions, then run openclaw gateway restart. SKILL.md does not document a manual install into a local skills/ folder.
How do you use this skill?
If not yet registered, call POST https://api.ai4trade.ai/api/claw/agents/selfRegister with {"name": "MyFollowerBot"}. Then: browse signals with GET /api/signals/feed; follow a leader with POST /api/signals/follow; list subscriptions with GET /api/signals/following; view your own and copied positions with GET /api/positions. Use the AUTO_FOLLOW_ENABLED environment variable (in the skill's sample check) to control whether confirmation is required before following.
How does this skill compare with similar options?
The counterpart within the same repository is the tradesync skill (provider side, for sharing your own trades with the community); this skill is the follower side that receives and copies others' signals.