Automating an Apex Trader Funding account
Apex Trader Funding issues platform credentials rather than an API of its own, and those credentials are what connects here. This page is mechanical only: which credential goes where, and how one decision reaches several accounts. Whether Apex permits automated or copied trading on YOUR account is set by Apex, not by us — read your own account's terms first.
Checked against Tradeus on 14 September 2026.
Before you start
- An Apex account with platform credentials issued — Rithmic in most cases, Tradovate in some.
- Your own reading of your account's terms on automation and copy trading. We do not publish a list of what each firm permits, because we do not have one that stays true.
- A Tradeus plan: Algo or Unlimited for the TradingView webhook. The copier is on every plan, and on a Rithmic leader it copies the trades you place by hand as well as the orders that came from an alert.
The numbers
- What Apex issues
- Platform credentials — Rithmic in most cases, Tradovate in some
- Rithmic system to pick
- The name on your R|Trader Pro login screen
- Accounts you may connect
- As many as you hold — not counted on any plan
- Copy groups
- Unlimited on every plan
- Hand trades copied from a Rithmic leader
- Yes, since 26 September 2026
- What we state about Apex's rules
- Nothing — read your own account's terms
Step by step
What to do, in order.
- 1
Find out which platform your account is on
Apex issues platform logins, and which platform you have decides everything that follows. A Rithmic login needs a username, password, system and gateway; the system is the name on your R|Trader Pro login screen, picked from Rithmic's own list. A Tradovate login needs nothing typed at all — it connects by OAuth.
- 2
Connect that login
On the connect screen, pick Apex Trader Funding under Prop firm, then the platform Apex gave you; the login itself connects like any other login of that platform, and Broker setup lists it under Apex. A Tradovate login travels through Tradovate's own sign-in, which uses whichever Tradovate login your browser is still signed in to — so if you hold Tradovate logins from more than one firm, sign out at trader.tradovate.com before connecting the next one. Your accounts appear underneath the connection by themselves. If none do, the login was probably a personal one rather than the one the firm issued.
- 3
Connect every account you hold, not just one
No plan counts broker connections or target accounts, so connect all of them. This is the step that makes the rest worth doing: the point of automating a prop account is rarely one account, it is the six evaluations you are running at once.
- 4
Decide where the decision comes from
If it comes from a chart alert, build a strategy, point a TradingView alert at it and subscribe every account — see the Rithmic or Tradovate playbook for the exact path. If it comes from you trading one account by hand, use the copier: one leader, the rest as followers, each sized for itself. That leader can be a Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 or Capital.com account — trades placed by hand on a Rithmic leader are copied.
- 5
Size each account for itself
Give every account its own risk figure rather than its own contract count — dollar-risk sizing is on Algo and Unlimited. A $25k evaluation and a $150k funded account then risk the same money on the same decision instead of trading the same size, which is the difference between a drawdown you planned and one you did not. It needs a stop to work from, which an alert can carry and a trade placed by hand does not.
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Arm a daily loss limit on every account
Set it before the first signal, not after the first bad one. It sits on the account, so it holds whether the order came from a strategy, the copier or your own hand. It is checked about every five seconds rather than before each order, so a fast market can carry the loss past it before the account is locked and its positions are closed.
What goes wrong
Named after the message you will see.
Each of these is a line from the event log or from TradingView, written as it appears — because that is the string you will paste into a search box at the moment you need this page.
The wrong Rithmic system
The system has to be the one your login belongs to: the name on R|Trader Pro's login screen. The same username on two systems is two separate logins, and a wrong system name is refused at login.
A personal platform login instead of the issued one
A Tradovate or Rithmic login you opened yourself will not surface the accounts your firm issued — they are different logins holding different accounts. The connection succeeds and the account list is the tell.
Assuming the rules are the same across your accounts
Automation and copy-trading rules differ per firm and sometimes per account inside one firm. Nothing here checks them, and nothing here can: the only authority on what your account permits is the agreement you signed.
“no subscription” — the alert arrived and nothing traded
The strategy received the signal and no account was following it. Open the strategy, add the account, and re-send. This accounts for more first-run confusion than every other cause put together, because the webhook itself answers perfectly well.
“invalid passphrase” after everything worked yesterday
Somebody pressed New passphrase. The old one stops working immediately and the alert in TradingView still carries it. Copy the current message off the strategy into the alert again.
“rounds to 0 contracts”
Dollar-risk sizing divided your risk budget by the stop distance and got less than one contract, and less than one contract is no trade. A wide stop with a small budget does this every time. It appears in the event log as a rejection rather than as a fill that went missing.
Questions
Asked before buying, answered either way.
Does Apex allow automated trading?
That is Apex's answer to give, not ours, and it can differ per account. We do not publish a list of which firms permit automation because we cannot keep one true, and a stale list is worse than none. Read your own account's terms before you connect it.
Which platform does my Apex account use?
Rithmic in most cases and Tradovate in some. Your Apex dashboard names it. The difference matters here: Rithmic asks for a username, password, system and gateway, while Tradovate connects by OAuth with nothing typed.
Can I run several Apex evaluations from one decision?
Mechanically, yes, and no plan counts target accounts. From a TradingView alert, subscribe every account to the strategy. From your own hand, use the copier with one leader and the rest as followers, which today means a Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 or Capital.com leader: hand trades on a Rithmic leader are copied. On Algo and Unlimited each account can carry its own risk figure, so the small ones are not sized like the large ones.
Does connecting here stop me using my firm's platform?
No. It connects as another client of the same platform and your own software keeps working. It does claim that login for your account here — the same broker login cannot run under two subscriptions at once.
In the handbook
The reference pages behind the steps above — one thing each, in full.
- Which brokers workSix you can connect today, what each one asks for, and which of them copy a trade you place by hand.
- Connect a prop firm accountPick the firm, then the platform it gave you: how each broker takes the firm, filing older logins, nicknames and flattening one account.
- Connecting RithmicWhich system to choose, and why the gateway matters.
- Setting up a groupOne leader, several followers, one size rule each.
- A broker login belongs to one Tradeus accountAnd removing the connection does not change that.
Sources
Every claim above about somebody else's product, linked to the page it was read from. If one of them no longer says what this page says, this page is wrong and we want to know: tell us.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Tradeus is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any firm shown. Whether a firm permits automated or copied trading is set by that firm's rules — read them first.
Checked against the live product on 14 September 2026. Broker screens and TradingView's own limits change; a step that no longer matches what you see is a step we need to fix.
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The only step this page cannot do.
Everything above is mechanical and takes about ten minutes. Whether it behaves the way you expect on your own accounts is the part nobody can write down for you.