Fee & Capital Optimization
A 10% win is not 10% in your pocket. Start with the net.
What the example shows
Hypothetical example — not a trade, quote, or typical return
Result: $88.96 to the follower before funding, slippage, and tax
$100.00 position P&L − $0.55 taker entry fee − $0.605 taker exit fee − $9.8845 profit share at 10%
Excluded: funding, which is paid or received only if the position is open at a settlement time; follower fills that differ from the master trader's; slippage; liquidation; your account's actual fee rate; and tax. Any of them can change the result. A losing move still pays both trading fees.
Trading fees and profit share are separate charges. Fees are paid on each leg's notional whether the trade wins or loses; the profit share comes out of what is left on a win.
Notional is the position size, $1,000 here. Margin or collateral is what the position locks up: about $1,000 at 1x. Your follower investment is the amount you allocate to a master trader, and total reserves add a buffer for fees, funding, and adverse moves.
Leverage changes the margin required and how close liquidation is. It does not change the absolute P&L for the same position and price move: at 10x, the same $1,000 position needs about $100 of margin and still makes or loses $100 on a 10% move, but a much smaller move against it can liquidate the margin.
These are the official figures used above, checked 2026-10-19. Your own fee page and the trader's profile decide the real numbers.
Worth considering when the exact copy product is available to your account in your country, you can cap what you allocate, you understand futures and liquidation, you have checked the trader's current drawdown, and you can accept losing the whole allocation.
Skip it if you want passive or guaranteed income, or if leverage, liquidation, and funding are still unclear to you. This example makes no monthly or annual projection, and none should be built from it.
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Bybit: Trading fee structure
Base VIP-0 perpetual and futures maker and taker rates. Checked 2026-10-19.
Bybit: Copy trading profit sharing explained
Classic profit-share rates by master-trader rank. Checked 2026-10-19.
Bybit: Master traders and followers
Follower minimum and why follower results can differ. Checked 2026-10-19.
Bybit: Introduction to copy trading
How following works and the past-performance warning. Checked 2026-10-19.
Bybit: Profit and loss calculation
How position P&L is calculated from position size and price change. Checked 2026-10-19.
Funding rates explained
Why funding is left out of the card, and when a held position pays or receives it.
It can, and it can lose. In this hypothetical, a $1,000 position that gains 10% leaves the follower $88.96 after fees and a 10% profit share, before funding, slippage, and tax. An unfavorable move loses money and still pays both fees.
Trading fees on each order, the master trader's profit share on profitable trades, and funding on perpetual positions held at a settlement time. Slippage is a further cost that does not appear on the fee schedule.
No. Bybit's current help page sets a 50 USDT Classic follower minimum, and a master trader can set a higher one. $1,000 is only the size used for this example.
Fees are charged on notional, so the same $1,000 position pays the same fees at any leverage. Leverage lets the same margin carry a larger position, which raises the fees, the P&L, and the liquidation risk together.