The fomo social feed, leaderboards and clans

The feed: everyone’s trades, live

fomo is built around a public feed. Its help centre: “Every trade on the platform shows up in a real-time social feed. You can follow traders, read their theses, and see exactly what they are holding and how they are performing.”

The feed is the third tab in the mobile app. It has two views:

• Global: activity across the whole platform, filterable by asset type and post kind (trades, closed positions, theses, new listings, price spikes, profit milestones and more).
• Following: only the traders you follow, with filters for minimum trade size, the trader’s portfolio size and the token’s market cap.

Each post shows who traded, which token, how much and their PnL (profit and loss). Token pages have their own feed, with a switch to show only theses.

This is the part of fomo people mean when they call it “social trading”. It also means your trades are public to other users: anyone can see what you buy, how much, and how it went.

Theses: a reason attached to a position

A thesis is a written take on a token, up to 3,000 characters, attached to a position you hold. “Your position is automatically attached to your thesis so readers can see you are putting your money where your mouth is.” It appears on your profile, the token’s feed and the global feed, and you can update it while the trade is open and for 3 hours after you close.

Automated moderation keeps some posts out: repeated identical theses, sexual content, hate speech, and links inviting readers into outside Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp or Signal groups. A thesis is an opinion from someone who already holds the token. It is not research and it is not advice.

Leaderboards

The leaderboard is the fourth tab. fomo says it “shows the top traders for each time window, not a curated list of influencers or known names.” Rankings use each trader’s realized and unrealized PnL and update in real time.

• Time windows: 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and all time.
• Tabs: Traders, Positions and Clans on mobile; Traders and Positions on the web.
• Top 100 badge: accounts ranked 1 to 100 all-time carry it; ranks 1 to 3 get gold, silver or bronze. It follows your current rank and disappears if you drop out.
• Positions tab: ranks single closed trades by realized profit, only ones that closed at a profit, filterable by tokens or perps and by amount invested.

fomo’s own terms (§9) say leaderboard and PnL figures “may be estimates and may differ from realized, withdrawable returns”, that fomo can recalculate them or change how they are calculated, and that “Rankings and past results do not guarantee future performance”. Wash trading and shuffling tokens between wallets to inflate a rank are banned.

Two more cautions. A leaderboard shows the winners of a period, not the many accounts that lost, so it says little about your odds. And for perps, fomo’s closed-position PnL leaves out trading fees, so a perps figure on a profile is before fees unless fomo says otherwise.

Clans

A clan is a group of traders “who share their positions and are ranked together by their combined profit and loss.” You can be in one clan at a time. The clan leaderboard lists the top 50 clans for 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days and the top 25 all-time. Creating one needs at least four invited traders, and a new clan “starts hidden” until the fomo team makes it visible; fomo lists reasons a clan can stay hidden, including being associated with a token. Joining a clan shows your individual PnL to its members.

Following is not copying

Following a trader does two things: it adds their buys, sells and theses to your Following feed, and, if you turn on notifications, it sends alerts when they trade above a size you choose. That is all. “fomo does not have a copy trading feature,” says its help centre, and its About page adds that following “does not automatically execute their orders in your account.”

The confusion has a source. fomo’s own website description has said “Follow traders, copy trades, and swap on web and mobile”, and an older fomo page described “copy trading” as getting a notification and then deciding yourself. The help centre and About page are the more specific statements, and both say nothing is copied automatically.

Some outside services offer to mirror fomo traders into your own wallet for a fee. They are not run by fomo, and fomo’s terms warn that “third-party trading extensions and other tools that access your account may expose your credentials” and let fomo restrict or close an account used through “an unapproved tool” (§4). Never hand your login or private key to one. More in fomo copy trading and third-party tools.

What this does not change

A feed of other people’s wins makes buying feel safer than it is. Most small tokens lose most of their value, and a strong week on the leaderboard says nothing about the next one. Read is fomo legit? for the wider picture, and watch for fake “fomo support” accounts in replies and DMs (support and scams).