In 2025, the global economy changed rapidly, and major countries took very different approaches to monetary policy: the United States started cutting interest rates, Japan raised rates, and China eased its policies slightly. Financial markets became more volatile, with gold prices nearing $5,000, Bitcoin breaking $120,000, and both U.S. and Chinese stock markets seeing significant rallies.
At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) began being widely used in trading, with tools such as multi-functional models, smart strategy creation, automated risk control, and real-time signal optimization. These technologies are reshaping retail trading by improving decision-making, trade execution, and overall efficiency.
In light of this, Followme analyzed all real account closing data from January 1 to December 31, 2025 to provide a full picture of how the community trades, where funds flow, which strategies are favored, and overall profits and losses. This report provides clear, reliable, and actionable insights by analyzing detailed trading data, helping investors and the industry understand real community trading activity and gain practical guidance for their own strategies.
Active Accounts and Profit & Loss Performance
In 2025, Followme had 29,934 active accounts that made at least one trade, with an overall average win rate of 63.80%, unchanged from 2024. Among profitable accounts, the average gain was $37.29, while losing accounts averaged a $74.03 loss, resulting in an overall profit-to-loss ratio of 0.5, which remained stable for the second consecutive year.
The Followme community posted a strong win rate of 63.8%, yet the profit-to-loss ratio remained at 0.5, highlighting a common investor tendency: securing small gains quickly while holding on to losing trades. Effective take-profit and stop-loss strategies, along with disciplined position management, continue to be critical drivers of overall performance.
Trading accounts fall into three types: signal accounts, self-directed trading accounts (not including signal accounts), and copy-trading accounts. These correspond to signal providers, self-directed traders, and subscribers.
In Followme, signal providers account for 26.23% of investors, while subscribers and self-directed traders make up 73.77%. Profit-and-loss performance by account type (% of profitable accounts) is shown below.
*Copy-trading Accounts: Only accounts that both open and close positions by following others are included.
Copy-trading accounts that follow trades from open to close achieve the highest percentage of profitable accounts and overall gains. Self-directed trading accounts maintain a moderate number of profitable accounts with average losses, while signal accounts record the lowest proportion of profitable accounts and the largest overall losses.
This structure confirms that a combination of professional strategies and diversified copy trading offers clear advantages in retail trading, while also highlighting that strategy providers still have room to improve in drawdown control and consistency of returns. Although the overall win rate remains relatively strong, profits within the community are still highly concentrated among a small number of top-performing accounts, reflecting the well-known “80/20 rule” in the trading industry.
Deposit & Withdrawal Activity Trends
In 2025, total deposits by active accounts declined by 34.95% year-on-year, while total withdrawals decreased by 34.38%. The average deposit per account was $10,285, and the average withdrawal was $8,471, with the ratio of accounts with withdrawals to those without at approximately 2.43:1.
Deposit and withdrawal volumes declined by around 35%, indicating weaker funding activity and lower risk appetite among retail traders in 2025. This suggests the industry has entered a period of contraction.
Among accounts with deposit activity:
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29.17% of investors had net deposits (deposits > withdrawals)
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3.37% of investors had equal deposits and withdrawals (deposits = withdrawals)
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67.47% of investors had net withdrawals (deposits < withdrawals)
Based on deposit and withdrawal activities, over two-thirds of investors had net withdrawals, indicating that overall trading returns fell below expectations and funds lacked incentive to remain in accounts.
Self-Directed Trading and Copy Trading
In 2025, Followme community MT4 accounts completed a total of 36,764,149 trades, averaging 143,051 trades per day. Among these, the ratio of self-directed trades to copy trades was 7.43:1, showing that self-directed trading remains the dominant method in the community, with nearly 90% of orders driven by investors’ independent decisions and operations.
Although copy trading is the only mode that achieves overall profitability, its orders account for just about 12%, highlighting a “high perceived value but low actual adoption” trend. There is still significant room to expand the popularity and conversion of copy trading among users.
With an average of over 140,000 trades per day, the data also demonstrates that the community is highly active and provides a strong, continuous sample for analysis.
Broker Performance
Followme has supported a total of 4,425 MT4 broker account connections, with 271 active brokers in 2025. In the same year, 19,518 new trading accounts were connected to the community, covering 215 brokers.
This report presents the performance of active brokers in the Followme community in 2025 across five key dimensions:
Data shows that brokers with more efficient copy trading have a higher percentage of profitable accounts. Fast execution and low latency are essential for success in copy trading.
At the same time, connection stability directly affects slippage control and risk management. Brokers with higher stability rankings see significantly lower overall losses across their accounts, highlighting that a broker’s infrastructure capability directly impacts users’ final returns.
XAUUSD Trading
In 2025, 17,224 accounts in the community traded XAUUSD, with a total of 1,629,338 lots and 13,912,206 trades, accounting for 87.7% of all community orders. The total loss for XAUUSD trading accounts was $19,892,803, with an average loss of $1,155 per account, and only 30.36% of accounts were profitable.
The table shows fewer profitable accounts than losing ones, resulting in a net market loss. Profitable accounts earn more on average than losing accounts lose, with higher trade volumes and order counts, showing activity and scale positively correlate with profitability.
Followme Season 17 Trading Competition
In Followme Season 17 Trading Competition, a total of 5,992 accounts registered, with combined net equity of $69,077,263. By the end of the season, the total net profit of all participating accounts reached $1,246,539.
Participating accounts are divided into three groups based on net equity:
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Micro Group: $100 ≤ Account Net Equity < $10,000
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Large Group: Account Net Equity ≥ $10,000
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Evergreen Group: Accounts with trading activity between September 27, 2024, and September 28, 2025, that participated in ≥3 seasons from S7 to S16, and have net equity ≥ $100
Large Group
The ratio of losing accounts is 2.54% higher than profitable accounts:
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The average gain of profitable accounts is 1.04 times the average loss of losing accounts.
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The average trade size of profitable accounts is 7.89 times that of losing accounts.
In the Large Group, the number of profitable and losing accounts is nearly balanced. Profitable accounts use positions more decisively after trend confirmation and exhibit more mature risk and capital management,which underlies the greater stability of high-capital accounts..
Micro Group
The number of losing accounts is twice that of profitable accounts, showing a significant profit-loss gap:
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The average loss of losing accounts is 1.23 times the average gain of profitable accounts.
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The average trade size per order for profitable accounts is 1.07 times that of losing accounts.
Micro Group generally avoid large positions, lack disciplined scaling strategies, and show homogeneous strategies with limited profit potential. Their profitability relies heavily on chance, making survival much harder than for large-cap accounts.
In Season 17, Large Group shows a nearly balanced proportion of profitable and losing accounts. Profitable accounts demonstrate more decisive and mature position management, resulting in higher overall stability.
In contrast, Micro Group has twice as many losing accounts as profitable ones. Their strategies are more homogeneous and positions more conservative, making profits highly dependent on luck and survival much harder compared to larger accounts.
Key Takeaways
In 2025, Followme community trading showed high win rates but low profit-to-loss ratios, with self-directed trading dominating while copy trading proved more profitable. Gold remained the core trading asset, though overall profitability was limited. Account size and broker infrastructure directly influenced trading outcomes, and investor behavioral biases remained a key constraint on profits.
AI technology brings new opportunities for industry upgrades, and the future will focus on technology empowerment and enhancing investors’ professional skills. Followme will continue to leverage real data to uncover industry patterns and provide professional guidance, making trading more transparent and easier.
Report Description
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Data Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025.
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Order Scope: Closed orders from real trading accounts in the Followme community during the reporting period.
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Trade Volume: Unless noted, all trade volumes are in Followme standard lots.
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Data Source: Real trading accounts in the Followme community, compiled and calculated by the Followme Data Research Center.
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