Open app.perp.ag and click Login. The Perp.ag Telegram bot opens; start it and it
sends you back to the app, signed in. There is no wallet-connect login: your Telegram account is your
Perp.ag account. See Login and alerts.
2
Fund an account on the venue you want to trade
Go to Accounts. Each venue has its own section. If you have no account there yet, click
Deposit to open account: your first deposit opens your main account. Lighter, Jupiter, Phoenix,
Bullet and Aftermath settle in USDC; RH Lighter settles in USDG on Robinhood Chain. See
Accounts for the per-venue details.
3
Find a trader
Open Explore. Sort by Copy Score, filter by tier, bias, edge, volume and last trade, or browse
the cohorts and the Best Wallets to Copy Trade list. Click a wallet to open its profile. See
Explore.
The leaderboard, filtered to S-tier wallets and sorted by Copy Score.
4
Test them first (recommended)
On the trader’s profile, click Backtest to replay their history against your settings, or
Paper Copy to follow them with virtual money from now on. See Paper copy.
5
Start copying
Click Copy Trade on the profile. Pick the account to Copy with, set your size (a copy percentage,
a max amount, or both), leverage, take profit, stop loss and slippage, then click Start Copying.
See Copy trading.
The copy form.
6
Set a breaker
In Accounts, turn on Fund protection for the account. If its net worth falls the percentage you
choose from its peak, copying on it stops. See Fund protection.
The fund protection setting.
7
Watch it run
Copy Trade → My Copy Trades shows each copy’s settings and your daily realized PnL. Trade Logs
lists every copied order and its status. Turn on Notify on trade to get an alert for each one.
My Copy Trades.
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