Does the size of own capital influence Popular Investor's decisions?
- Tomasz Tomczyk

- Dec 21, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 3, 2021
To get into the Popular Investor program, you need to meet several requirements. Including the amount of your own capital, which you manage yourself, before you start managing other clients' money. In my opinion, there is a big difference between an investor who manages $5,000 of own equity and his AUM is $5M and an investor who has $500,000 of own equity and his AUM is $5,000. Try to figure it out before you make any decisions about copying someone. You will also be helped by colored stars showing the Popular Investor's level (details in eToro FAQ)
Example
I read on the blog of one of the Popular Investors who has >100k followers, ca. 15k copiers and >5M$ AUM that the value of his private capital invested on eToro is around $50,000. He gives this as one of the arguments securing his credibility in investing. Given that eToro pays remuneration to people managing large copier portfolios, his payment is >8K$ per month (assuming 5M$ AUM and 1% increase per month).
𝗦𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗺 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀. Especially after so many years of investing and building a position on eToro. Is his "salary" sufficient monthly income?
eToro is not a salary source in my understanding. It is a platform for multiplying your own capital and sharing your ideas with other users. I do not understand how to entrust the funds to similar users in this case. You can find the information on what my capital investment is here
How to compare Popular Investors - here





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