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The complete walkthrough · Live on Hyperliquid mainnet

How to copy-trade with Hypertide.

A full, plain-English walkthrough — from connecting a wallet to managing risk. You keep custody the entire time: the agent can place and cancel orders, and can never withdraw or transfer your funds. About a minute to start.

Not financial advice· Copied trades can lose money· No token — we never DM you first


Choose your surface

Pick how you'll use it

Hypertide runs the same account two ways — pick whichever you'll actually open.

  • Telegram bot — search @hypertide_bot and connect, follow, and get a ping on every copied fill, all from a chat. Made for mobile.
  • Web app — open /discover in a browser and sign in with Telegram. No new password; it's the same account in a full trading view.

New here? Start in Telegram first — that's where you connect your wallet. The web app then signs into the same account.

Start in chat

In Telegram

Connect, follow, and get a notification on every copied fill — from a chat.

In your browser

Web app

Sign in with Telegram and run the same account in a full trading view.

Existing users — start in Telegram first.

Connect · non-custodial

Connect your agent wallet

You approve a Hyperliquid agent wallet — a bot-held key created at connect time — in your own wallet. It takes three signatures, each shown before you sign:

  • Approve agent — on-chain (signature 1 of 3).
  • Approve builder fee — on-chain (signature 2 of 3).
  • Bind to Telegram — a plain off-chain message that links the agent to your account (signature 3 of 3).

No funds are moved by any of this. The agent can place and cancel orders to follow the traders you choose — and nothing else.

How long it lasts

You choose the approval length — 30, 90, or 180 days (180 by default, which is Hyperliquid's maximum). When it lapses, re-approve to keep copying. Your funds are unaffected either way.


Fund · you keep custody

Fund your Hyperliquid account

Copying trades on your account means having collateral there. You deposit USDC to your own Hyperliquid account the normal way, on Hyperliquid — Hypertide is not part of that step and never holds the money.

Your collateral stays in your own Hyperliquid account the whole time. The agent can trade it, but it cannot withdraw or transfer it — so funding doesn't hand custody to anyone.

Fund enough to clear the minimum

Hyperliquid enforces a ~$10 minimum order size. Fund enough that the trades you copy land above it — otherwise a small copied fill can be skipped (more on that in step 5).


Discover · traders you choose

Browse traders — the ones you choose

Open Top Traders to see a ranked list built from public Hyperliquid on-chain data — Hypertide has no affiliation with these traders and none of this is an endorsement. Or paste any Hyperliquid address to look a trader up directly.

Every trader shows the same honest metrics. Read them together, not one in isolation:

  • Trust — a 0–100 composite of risk-adjusted return (Sharpe), drawdown, consistency, win rate and ROI, ranked against other listed traders.
  • Sharpe — return per unit of daily volatility.
  • ROI — change in account equity over the window, including open positions, funding and fees.
  • Max DD — the largest drop from a peak, on a deposit-adjusted curve.
  • Win — share of closed trades that were profitable.
Read drawdown first

Max drawdown is the number that copies onto you. A high ROI next to a deep Max DD means the ride there was rough — and that ride is what you're signing up to mirror.

Why 100% win can sit next to a losing ROI

Win rate only counts trades a trader has closed. Banking many small wins while a losing position stays open shows 100% win with a negative ROI — exactly why we show ROI, drawdown and Trust alongside it.


Follow · set your sizing

Follow a trader and set sizing

Pick a trader and start copying. By default Hypertide mirrors each of their fills at the same percentage of your account that the fill was of theirs — so a small account and a large one follow the same trade proportionally.

If you want a ceiling, turn on the per-fill cap. It's off by default.

The cap is a ceiling, not a multiplier

The cap limits how large any single copied fill can be, as a share of your account — it never scales a trade up. With a 5% cap: a trader's 10%-of-account fill is copied at 5%; their 2% fill is copied at 2%. It only ever trims; it never enlarges.

Below the minimum, small fills skip

Hyperliquid's ~$10 minimum means a copied open that works out under $10 on your account is skipped rather than sent. A small account, or a tight cap, will quietly miss the smallest fills.


Live · it runs while you don't

Fills auto-copy in real time

Once you're following, it runs itself. When a trader opens, adds to, or closes a position, Hypertide places the matching order on your account in real time — and sends you a notification for every copied fill, with the symbol, side, size and price.

Only new fills are mirrored

Copying starts from the trader's next trade. A position they already held when you followed is not copied onto you — Hypertide mirrors new fills as they happen, not a snapshot of where they already are.

Because only new fills copy, following a trader mid-move means you join from that point on — not at their original entry.


Control · your guardrails

Manage your risk

Copying is high-risk — perpetual futures can lose money, and a trader you follow can too. Hypertide gives you the controls; you set them.

  • Drawdown auto-pause — set a percentage, and if your copy P&L (the last 7 days, realized plus what's open) drops by that much, every follow pauses automatically and you get a heads-up. It's checked every minute.
  • Blacklist — block a symbol you never want copied.
  • Pause / resume — stop new copies any time, then pick back up.
  • Unfollow — stop copying a trader whenever you like. Your open positions stay yours to manage — Hypertide stops copying and hands the positions it opened back to you to keep or close; it does not liquidate them for you.
This is risk management, not a safety net

An auto-pause acts on a schedule and on market prices that can gap — it reduces exposure, it can't guarantee an exit price. Copied trades can still lose money. None of this is financial advice.


Cost · one fee, nothing hidden

What it costs

Hypertide earns in exactly one way — a Hyperliquid builder fee you approve on-chain, charged per trade. There's no subscription, no deposit or withdrawal fee, and no token, no airdrop.

  • 0.1% per trade — that's $1 per $1,000 traded.
  • Drops to 0.05% after $10,000 of lifetime volume.
  • Hyperliquid caps the builder fee at 0.1% — no bot can charge more, and you see it before you sign.

For scale: many Telegram trading bots charge around 1% (100 bps) per trade. At 0.1% that's 0.1 ÷ 1 = ~10× cheaper per trade; the 0.05% tier works out to roughly 20× cheaper. Same math, no claims about being the least expensive anywhere.

Fee · per $1,000 traded
TierRatePer $1,000
Hypertide standard0.1%$1.00
Hypertide VIP ($10k+ volume)0.05%$0.50
Typical TG bot~1%~$10.00
protocol-capped at 0.1% · no subscription · no token

Telegram commands

Every command, in one place

You never have to memorize these — /menu gives you buttons for the everyday actions, and the mini-app covers the rest. This is the full set for when you'd rather just type. In the bot, /help always shows the current list.

Getting started & account

/startConnect your wallet
/menuOpen the button menu — tap to navigate
/accountBalance, positions, open orders, fee tier
/proofProve your wallet is yours — non-custodial
/referralsYour referral link + earnings
/howtoThis guide
/helpThe full command list, always current

Copy trading

/tradersBrowse traders to copy, plus your own additions
/trader <name>One trader's detail
/trader_add <0xaddr> "<name>"Add a trader to your list
/trader_remove <name>Remove a trader you added
/follow <name> [opts]Start copying a trader
/unfollow <name>Stop copying — your open positions stay yours
/followsYour copies + P&L
/pause [name] · /resume [name]Pause or resume copying
/blacklist <symbol> · /unblacklist <symbol>Never copy a symbol (or undo)
/close_copy <id>Exit one copy position early
/backtest <trader>Simulate a trader before you follow
/risk drawdown <pct>Set your drawdown auto-pause

Trading by hand — optional

/buy <symbol> <usd> [@price]Open a long
/sell <symbol> <usd> [@price]Open a short
/close <symbol> [%]Close a position (default 100%)
/closeallFlatten everything — confirms first
/leverage <symbol> <n> [iso|cross]Set leverage
/cancel <oid>Cancel a resting order
/chart <symbol> [interval] [bars]Price chart

Group chat

/broadcastShare your trades in a group
/lbGroup leaderboard (in a group)
/groupsGroups you're in

Arguments in <angle brackets> are required; [square brackets] are optional. Copied trades can lose money — none of this is financial advice.


Start with your keys in your hands.

Connect in about a minute. Follow a trader you chose. Keep custody the entire time.

Start in chat

In Telegram

Run everything from a chat — connect, follow, and get a ping on every copied fill. Made for mobile.

Open in Telegram
In your browser

Web app

Prefer a browser? Sign in with Telegram and run the same account in a full trading view — no new password.

Launch Web App For existing users — start in Telegram first.