Copying Community Trading Signals with OctoBot Cloud
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Summary
The article explains how an OctoBot user can subscribe to a community strategy, import its profile, and configure a bot to follow the strategy’s trading signals. Followers receive signals when the source bot creates or cancels orders, and their order amounts are adjusted to their own portfolio. The article says this can be used with real or simulated trading and with exchanges that support the strategy’s trading pairs.
The shared profile configures the signal-following mode, strategy identifier, pairs, and default exchange. The publishing user must configure a trading mode to send signals to the strategy. The article emphasizes that followers receive signals rather than the strategy’s code or configuration, so they cannot inspect its underlying logic through this process. It is an operational guide to signal copying, not evidence that community strategies perform well; it provides no performance figures or risk-management method.
Key ideas
- Users subscribe to a community strategy and import its configured profile into OctoBot.
- The follower’s bot reacts to order creation and cancellation signals from the source strategy.
- Order sizes are adapted to the follower’s portfolio, and real or simulated trading is supported.
- Supported trading pairs and exchange compatibility constrain where a strategy can be followed.
- Followers receive signals but cannot inspect the publisher’s strategy code or configuration.
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# Follow the best strategies --- title: "Following strategies in OctoBot cloud" description: "You can now follow trading strategies of the community" slug: "following-strategies-in-octobot-cloud" date: "2022-11" authors: ["paul"] tags: ["Cryptocurrency", "Trading", "Strategy", "Exchange", "OctoBot cloud"] image: "/images/blog/following-strategies-in-octobot-cloud/cover.png" --- # Follow the best strategies  On OctoBot cloud, you can subscribe to trading strategies. Subscribing to a strategy allows you to easily trade using a strategy made by someone else from the OctoBot community. When subscribed to a strategy, you can use the strategy profile directly from your OctoBot. When you do so, your OctoBot will follow the strategy by coping any trade made by this strategy. Order amounts will be adapted to your current portfolio. ## How to use a followed strategy ? 1. Login on [OctoBot cloud](/) and go to the desired strategy page 2. Click `Subscribe`  3. Now that you are subscribing to the strategy, click `Copy download url` 4. From your OctoBot, login to your OctoBot cloud account  5. Go to the `Profile` tab and click on the name of the current profile, click `Import a profile`  6. Paste the download url (that was copied from step 3) and click `Import`  7. Use the imported profile and restart your OctoBot ## How does it work ? When following a strategy, a user gets access to the trading signals of the strategy. Trading signals are emitted at each order created or cancelled by the followed strategy. This way followers of a strategy benefit from trades of the desired strategy in real time directly from their OctoBot. Strategies can be applied to any exchange as long as the strategy trading pairs are supported. You can follow a strategy with real or simulated trading. Trading through strategy signals is achieved by using the RemoteTradingSignalsTradingMode configured to follow the strategy you selected. When importing a strategy profile, you are importing an already configured profile that enables this trading mode with the right strategy identifier and the strategy traded pairs and default exchange.  As following a strategy is only possible through OctoBot cloud, you need to login to your OctoBot cloud account from your OctoBot to be able to follow a strategy. ## How to publish a strategy on OctoBot cloud ? Trading strategies are published on [OctoBot cloud](/) by the OctoBot community. When a user wants to share a trading strategy, the only thing to do is to: 1. Create a strategy on [OctoBot cloud](/) 2. Setup the desired OctoBot trading mode to emit trading signals to this strategy  Note: the identifier of the strategy to emit signal on can be found on the strategy page, by clicking on this button  Please note that configuration and content of a published strategy is not uploaded to OctoBot cloud and followers can't access the code or configuration of the strategy. They will only get trading signals when the OctoBot that is actually running the strategy will create or cancel orders. ## Join the beta Following strategies will first be available on the [beta OctoBot cloud](https://beta.octobot.cloud/). To join the OctoBot beta program, [have a look at our beta program](/guides/octobot-advanced-usage/beta-program)
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