Social Trading on Blackboard: How the Feed, Following and Featured Traders Work
Follow traders, read their theses and trades in one Feed, and find new ones in Featured. Following never places an order for you.
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Quick answer. Social trading on Blackboard happens in the Feed. Follow a trader, and their theses, opens and closes show up beside your own order form. Featured helps you find traders worth following. Following never trades for you: every order is yours to place.
This guide covers where the Feed lives, what each tab shows and how to read it.
What is social trading on Blackboard?
Social trading means you trade alongside other traders and can see what they do. On Blackboard it lives in the Feed, right next to the chart.
You see a trader's ideas and moves as they happen. You decide what, if anything, to do with them. Nothing copies, mirrors or signs for you.
Where is the Feed?
The Feed has two homes.
- The side panel. Press Feed beside Wallet, My Trades and Status. It stays open while you trade.
- My Page → Social. A full-page view with the Leaderboard and your Watchlist.
!The Feed's tabs, Following, Featured and Watchlist, and its All, Theses, Trades and Gifts filters
The Feed has three tabs: Following, Featured and Watchlist. A count shows how many new items wait for you. Watchlist keeps the markets you star, so ideas and prices sit side by side.
On a phone, the side panel opens as a drawer. The tabs and filters work the same way.
What shows up in Following?
Following shows activity from traders you follow. Filter it with All, Theses, Trades or Gifts.
- Theses are short notes a trader posts on an open position, with optional price targets.
- Trades show when they open, add to or close a position.
- Gifts are card packs other members send you. Open packs opens them.
A closed trade opens that trader's PnL card. An open trade can show Since entry: the market's move in the trade's direction since its entry price. It is not the trader's profit.
How do you find traders to follow?
Open Featured. It lists traders in two groups:
- Leaderboard traders, the top of the board by 30-day PnL.
- Picked by Blackboard, chosen by the team, each with a short reason.
Tap a name to open their profile. Check their calls, win rate and how long they hold before you press Follow. Read how to read a trader's calls for what each figure means.
A volume rank is not a profit rank. Past results do not predict future returns.
What do others see when you trade?
Your public profile decides what other members see. Signed-out visitors see only your avatar and nickname.
Signed-in members can see the positions, calls and performance your profile shows. Position size appears as USD notional (the trade's full value), not your margin. Some views show PnL without token amounts.
A thesis you post appears on your profile and in your followers' Feed. You can edit it while the position is open.
Do you get alerts when a trader you follow trades?
Yes. A small alert appears when someone you follow opens, adds to or closes a position, or posts a thesis.
Each alert names the trader, the market and the side. Press View profile to see more, or dismiss it. Alerts never place an order.
How do you act on what you see?
On an eligible Crypto or TradFi call, press Copy call. It opens the trader's idea next to your own order form.
- Check their direction and posted price against the market now.
- Choose Copy to follow it or Reverse to take the other side.
- Set your own size, leverage and exits.
- Confirm, or close the window and do nothing.
Copy call places one order: yours. It never copies their later trades. The Copy call guide walks through each field, and perp order types explains the order form.
FAQ
Does following a trader copy their trades? No. Following shows their activity in your Feed. It never opens, mirrors or authorizes orders from your account.
Can people see my trades? Signed-out visitors see only your avatar and nickname. Signed-in members can see the positions, calls and performance your public profile shows.
What does Since entry mean? It is the market's move in the trade's direction since its entry price. It ignores size, fees and the exit, so it is not the trader's profit.
Who are Featured traders? Featured lists leaderboard traders ranked by 30-day PnL and traders picked by Blackboard's team, each with a reason.
Is social trading on Blackboard free? Following, the Feed and alerts cost nothing. You pay normal trading fees only on orders you place.