Ive been using etoros copytrade feature for about a year or so and have been happy with it. You deposit your money and let someone more skilled invest/trade for you. I found someone that communicated well that i felt i could trust. All good up until a few weeks ago the copytrader came to us (there are hundreds of copiers) and said etoro is closing her account and liquidating her investments in 72hrs, wont tell her why and wont budge. At this point in time we have quite a few positions in the red (shes a swing trader), so liquidation would cement those losses for her and all copiers (some 500,000-$1,000,000 under her managment). Cue mass panic as everyone scrambles to find out more but we are met with stonewalling and chat bots. Some copiers jump ship and realise their losses, others try to take over and manage their portfolios themselves but they cant, all before we have heard anything directly from etoro. Eventually i get an email confirming that yes the coptytrade will be shut down (in 1 month now) and at that time all positions will be sold off at market value. At time of writing, for me, this forces a loss of 70% of my porfolio (approx half trades in the red and half fees i have been paying to keep many of these trades open). Throughout all of this etoro have been absolutely infuriating to deal with, i dont know why this is happening and there is no compromise, i cant even keep the investments under my own managment. In their final corrospondance with me they basically said once i entrusted my money to into their managment they can do what they want with it. So here we are, end date is 07/07/23, i will update this if/when etoro drops the hammer on me