The 26-Year Evolution of Social Trading

Social trading has evolved significantly from early internet chat rooms like Activetrader, where users manually shared and followed trades, to modern platforms like FOMO. Early methods relied on nicknames and screenshots, which were difficult to verify. The industry later shifted toward automated copy trading, where platforms connect real brokerage accounts to signal providers. While technology has reduced the friction between observing a trade and executing it, it has also raised new questions regarding risk management, platform incentives, and the respons