When the Trader You Copy Goes Quiet
What a Trader Bot does when its trader stops trading: nothing, and for free. What happens to your existing copies, and your options for waiting, pausing, or switching.
Last updated August 21, 2026
A bot copying a quiet trader simply does nothing, and doing nothing is free. Polycopy's 0.5% fee is charged on executed trades, so no trades means no fee of any kind, and an idle bot holds no capital you cannot reallocate. The bot stays armed and copies the next qualifying trade whenever the trader returns.
There is no timeout either. A bot does not expire, lose its settings, or need restarting after a long gap. Weeks of silence leave it exactly as you configured it.
Your existing copies are unaffected
Positions you already copied from that trader still resolve normally. Their silence changes nothing about markets you are already in. You can sell those positions from your Portfolio or let them run to resolution, exactly as before.
Your three options
Wait it out
Many good traders are quiet between events or seasons. A sports specialist can go dark in the off-season and come back strong. Since an idle bot costs nothing, waiting is a perfectly reasonable choice.
Pause the bot
If you would rather the bot not react the moment the trader returns, pause it. You keep the setup and can resume whenever you like.
Stop and pick another trader
If you have lost interest in this trader, browse Discover for a new one — its Best to Copy list is ordered by Copy Score, so traders whose record has survived the cost of copying surface first. Create the new bot before you retire the old one, and note that stopping a bot also SELLS its open positions. If you want those positions to run to resolution, leave the old bot paused instead of stopping it.
Reading the Form chip
Trader profiles carry a Form chip — Rising form, Steady form, Cooling form, or Dormant. It describes the recent trajectory of their daily P&L, and it is deliberately descriptive rather than a rating: Cooling form is not a verdict, and Rising form is not a recommendation. Dormant is the one that speaks to silence directly, and on a trader you copy it usually explains why your bot has had nothing to do.