⚠️ Olympus Risk & Ratio Management

Copy trading can save time, but it can also magnify mistakes fast if your settings are too aggressive.

The goal is not to copy every trade as closely as possible. The goal is to copy in a way that fits your own balance, risk tolerance, and execution limits.

Olympus gives you the tools to do that, but they only work if you use them well.

📐 Start With Ratio Sizing

Your Ratio % is one of the most important settings in Olympus.

It controls how much of a leader's trade you copy. If your ratio is too high for your account size, you can become overexposed very quickly.

Simple rule of thumb

Your Ratio % should roughly reflect your balance compared with the leader's portfolio size.

Example:

Your balance: $1,000
Leader balance: $2,000,000

That is roughly 0.05% of their size.

If they place a $60,000 trade, your copied size would be about $30.

That is much safer than blindly using the same ratio on every wallet.

Best practice

use a lower ratio than feels exciting
treat each wallet differently
recalculate your ratio as your balance changes
do not use the same ratio for a whale and a smaller trader

Olympus includes a Ratio Recalculator for each wallet. It helps you size more realistically based on your portfolio, the leader's portfolio, and current open positions.

In practice, it is usually a conservative place to start. If you are not sure what ratio to use for a specific wallet, clicking that button is a good way to get an initial value instead of guessing.

From there, you can watch how the wallet behaves and raise the ratio gradually by hand if the recommended size feels too small for your goals.

💰 Control Market Exposure

Even a good ratio can still create bad risk if you do not cap exposure at the market level.

The most important protection

Max Market Size (USD) is one of the best safety settings in the product.

It acts as a cap on how much total capital you can commit to one market for that wallet.

That matters because some traders:

scale in multiple times
re-enter after partial exits
keep adding to the same idea

Without a market cap, one active wallet can quietly pull too much of your account into one prediction.

Good rule of thumb

Keep Max Market Size (USD) modest relative to your total balance, especially when starting out.

For many users, something around 2-5% of account value per market is a much safer place to start than leaving it wide open.

Other settings that help control exposure

Max Trade Size (USD) limits the size of any one copied trade
Max Trades / Market limits how many times the bot can add into one market
Max Open Markets limits how many separate markets a wallet can have open at once
Max Trades / 24h helps keep very active wallets from overwhelming your account in a single day

🎯 A Practical Sizing Mindset

If you are not sure where to start, keep it simple:

keep single-trade size small relative to your account
keep market-level exposure capped
assume some wallets will trade more often than expected
increase size only after you understand how a wallet behaves

A small setup that survives is better than an aggressive setup that blows up early.

💸 Execution Risk Matters More Than Most Users Expect

A leader can be directionally right and still give you a bad copy-trading result if execution is sloppy.

That is because your performance is affected by:

spread
slippage
trade timing
market liquidity
price deviation settings

If a wallet constantly enters in thin markets or aggressive spots, your fills may be worse than theirs even when copying correctly.

Two settings that matter a lot here

Maximum Price Deviation (%) This controls how far your fill is allowed to drift from the leader's price before Olympus skips the trade.

too tight: you may miss many entries
too loose: you may enter poor fills

You can set a global default in General Settings and optionally override it per wallet in Filters.

Limit Buy Mode This can help reduce slippage by placing a limit order at the leader's execution price instead of forcing an immediate market-style fill.

That can improve entries, but it also creates fill risk. Some trades simply will not fill if the market moves away too quickly.

The real trade-off

Better protection usually means more skipped trades. More aggressive copying usually means worse fills.

That is normal. You are choosing where to sit on that trade-off.

🧪 Use Filters to Avoid Bad Markets

Not every copied trade is worth taking.

Filters help you avoid low-quality setups before they become expensive mistakes.

Useful filters include:

Minimum Odds (%)
Maximum Odds (%)
Minimum Liquidity (USD)
Minimum 24h Volume (USD)
Minimum Trigger Amount (USD)
Skip Markets Expiring After (days)

These are especially helpful when copying:

fast traders
noisy wallets
traders who jump into thin or low-volume markets
wallets that make lots of tiny probe trades

If you are taking too many weak entries, the answer is often not a higher ratio. It is better filters.

🧘 Be Careful With High-Churn Wallets

Some wallets trade too often, too broadly, or too noisily to copy well.

That does not always mean they are bad traders. It may simply mean their style is not a good fit for your account size or your execution settings.

Be more cautious with wallets that:

jump between too many unrelated categories
trade very frequently without clear selectivity
scale in constantly
rely on aggressive execution in thin markets
generate more activity than your account can comfortably absorb

For those wallets, you usually want:

a lower Ratio %
a lower Max Market Size (USD)
stricter filters
tighter daily trade caps
more caution around market buys

🚨 Common Mistakes

setting a high Ratio % without comparing your account to the leader's size
leaving Max Market Size (USD) blank
copying active wallets with no trade caps
using overly loose settings in thin markets
using overly tight Maximum Price Deviation (%) and wondering why trades do not enter
assuming Olympus automatically manages your risk for you

Olympus helps enforce your rules. It does not replace judgment.

⏳ Stop-Loss and Take-Profit

Stop-loss and take-profit are still best treated as coming soon, not as part of the current core risk workflow.

For now, the more important live protections are:

Ratio %
Max Trade Size (USD)
Max Market Size (USD)
Max Trades / Market
Max Trades / 24h
Maximum Price Deviation (%)
Limit Buy Mode
market quality filters

🎯 Final Takeaway

The safest copy-trading setups usually look a little boring.

They use smaller ratios, tighter market caps, better filters, and more patience.

That may feel less exciting at first, but it gives you more room to learn how a wallet behaves before you scale up.