Bitget launches CFD copy trading amid market volatility

Bitget has launched CFD Copy Trading on its platform, allowing users to follow professional traders in forex, commodities and indices.

The launch follows a period of heightened market volatility in which Bitget's daily CFD trading volume topped USD $6 billion.

The service lets customers copy trading strategies in traditional financial markets from as little as 50 USDT. It expands a copy trading model already used in Bitget's spot and futures products to contracts for difference linked to assets outside crypto.

Bitget said the rollout reflects rising interest among crypto traders in markets such as gold, oil, major currency pairs and equity indices. It attributed that shift to the growing influence of macroeconomic conditions on digital asset trading.

Until now, that type of trading has largely favoured more experienced users who track economic signals and move quickly across asset classes. The new product is designed to lower the barrier to entry for retail users seeking exposure to those markets without having to build their own trading process from scratch.

"More users are paying attention to macro movements because the opportunity set has widened beyond crypto alone," said Gracy Chen, Chief Executive Officer, Bitget. "What matters now is making that access practical. Copy trading lowers the execution barrier for users who want exposure to global markets without needing to build that expertise from scratch."

How it works

The service runs on Bitget's MT5-integrated CFD system. Bitget said MT5 account creation and withdrawal processing take less than three seconds through an automated back-end process.

It has also introduced a High-Water Mark profit-sharing model for expert traders and their followers. Under this system, traders receive a share of profits only when a follower's account reaches a new net profit high after fully recovering earlier losses.

The model ties payments to realised recovery and new gains rather than short-term swings in account value. In practice, followers do not pay profit share again until they move above their previous peak.

Performance data, including return on investment, follower numbers, and profit-sharing figures, is updated hourly, according to the company. Profit-sharing settlements are processed daily, and eligible traders can receive up to 30% of the profit share.

Some users will also be able to access restricted portfolios through VIP structures for invited followers. This suggests Bitget is aiming to support both open copy trading arrangements and more selective, trader-led groups within the same framework.

Wider strategy

The launch is part of Bitget's broader push to combine multiple asset classes within a single account structure. Users can move between crypto, commodities, foreign exchange and indices using USDT-based margin rather than transferring funds across separate brokers.

That approach targets two groups: crypto users seeking a simpler path into traditional financial markets, and established MT5 and forex traders who may use the CFD product as an entry point to Bitget's broader offering.

Cross-market products have become more prominent as trading firms seek to keep users within a single ecosystem to capture a larger share of their activity. For exchanges that started in digital assets, links to traditional markets can broaden revenue sources and attract users who respond more to macroeconomic events than to crypto-specific news.

Bitget describes itself as a universal exchange and says it serves more than 125 million users. It also offers access to crypto tokens, tokenised stocks, exchange-traded funds, commodities, foreign exchange and precious metals, including gold.

The addition of copy trading for CFDs puts greater emphasis on retail access and on execution, reporting and profit-sharing. Those mechanics matter in copy trading because users hand over trading decisions while still bearing the market risk.

Hourly reporting and daily settlement may appeal to users seeking more frequent performance updates than some rival services provide. The High-Water Mark model may also address a longstanding criticism of copy trading systems, in which lead traders can continue earning while followers are still recovering from earlier losses.

At the same time, the product enters a crowded market where copy trading is often presented as a simpler entry point to complex and volatile instruments. CFDs, foreign exchange and commodities can all produce sharp gains and losses, and follower demand often rises during periods of market stress, when price swings create both opportunity and risk.