martinica posted:
Why is a problem if someone have cent accounts? If it profitable you can copy it on your non cent account and earn money.
It's to know the actual risk the main account was involved.
just for example.
Imagine account run with only $100 on cent which make it appear as $10,000
With subscripted fee of $10 per month, after 10 people followed, he got zero risk even he make whole account lost.
While if it's actual $10,000, he will need larger amount of follower in order to trade risk free.
Of course, good trader should not increase risk base on such factor and should aim for long term profit.
But it's not always the case.