SCI Trader vs doing it yourself vs other AI trading bots
Last updated 2026-10-05
How funding your account with us compares with trading yourself or using another kind of bot.
Who places the orders
Doing it yourself means you choose each order and send it. SCI Trader is different: you set instructions, and our AI trades inside them after you fund the account. You do not place each order.
Other AI trading bots are a category of software that can send orders. This article does not describe how any named product behaves, and it does not rank that category.
Where the money sits
If you trade yourself, the coins sit in a wallet you control or in an account you open at an exchange. You check that arrangement.
At SCI Trader, you fund your account with SCI Trader so the AI can trade for you. It is not a personal wallet key. This article does not describe how any other service holds funds.
Fees
Trading yourself can involve exchange and network costs. Those costs vary, and this article does not quote them.
SCI Trader’s performance fee is 10% of every new profit. You keep 90%. Funding is not profit. Creating an account has no platform fee. Recovering a loss is not new profit and creates no new fee. We only earn when you do.
Risk controls, and what is not claimed
The SCI Trader controls are a cap on one position, a cash reserve that stays uninvested, and a pause. Pausing does not sell investments or cancel orders already submitted. These controls are not a stop-loss and not a drawdown limit.
Doing it yourself means you choose your own controls.