Copy one account's trades to all your other accounts
The copier starts from an ACCOUNT, not from a signal: orders on the leader are repeated on the followers, each sized for itself. That is the difference from everything else on this site. Trades you place by hand on the leader are copied when the leader is a Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 or Capital.com account. On an Alpaca leader only the orders Tradeus places from a TradingView alert are copied, never the ones you place by hand. Alert orders fan out whatever the leader's broker.
Checked against Tradeus on 14 September 2026.
Before you start
- At least two connected accounts that trade the same market — one to lead, one or more to follow. They may sit at different prop firms and on different brokers.
- Any Tradeus plan. Copy groups and followers are not counted on any of them.
- A leader on Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 and Capital.com if you want trades you place by hand copied. On an Alpaca leader only orders that came from an alert are copied, and alerts need Algo or Unlimited.
- A dollar risk per follower if you want each account sized for itself (Algo and Unlimited). Without one, size is copied one for one.
The numbers
- Copy groups
- Unlimited on every plan
- Followers per group
- Unlimited on every plan
- Broker connections counted
- Never, on any plan
- Hand trades on the leader copied from
- Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 and Capital.com; never Alpaca
- Alert orders on the leader copied from
- Every connectable broker
- Group flatten
- Closes every account in the group, the leader included
- Flatten on an account's row
- Closes that account alone; a follower stays in the group
- Readiness refresh
- About every 20 seconds
- Brokers a group may span
- Any, if leader and follower trade the same market
Step by step
What to do, in order.
- 1
Connect every account first
Connect as many brokers and logins as you hold — no plan counts them. A target account may perfectly well sit at a second prop firm on a different platform. For each login, pick the firm first on the connect screen and then the platform it gave you, so Broker setup lists the connection under that firm, and give the accounts nicknames with the pencil beside each one — the account picker in the copier shows those names, so "Apex 1" and "Tradeify 2" stop being two account numbers. The copier does not care which broker either side is on, as long as both trade the same market: futures accounts copy futures accounts, CFD accounts copy CFD accounts.
- 2
Create a group and pick the leader
A group is one leader account and any number of followers, and neither groups nor followers are counted on any plan. Make one group per account you copy from. Choose the leader with its broker in mind: trades you place by hand are copied from a Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 or Capital.com leader, and never from an Alpaca one. Orders Tradeus places from an alert are copied from all of them.
- 3
Give each follower its own risk, not its own size
On Algo and Unlimited, set a dollar amount each follower should risk per trade, and contracts are worked back from the stop distance — so a $25k evaluation and a $150k funded account follow the same signal without the small one blowing up. It needs a stop to work from. An alert can carry one. A trade you place by hand does not, so it is copied one for one unless the follower has a minimum stop distance set, which is then used as the distance. On Manual, and with the risk left empty, followers copy the leader's size one for one.
- 4
Set the three guards on each follower
Max contracts is a ceiling applied after the calculation, on every plan. Minimum stop distance, in points, guards against a tiny stop turning into an enormous position, and it is the distance used for a trade placed by hand, which carries no stop of its own — it belongs to risk sizing and comes with it on Algo and Unlimited. Never smaller than the instrument trades is on every plan: a size that comes out below the smallest the broker will take is placed at that smallest size instead of being skipped, and where the broker publishes no size grid for that instrument at all, there is nothing to round to, so it is skipped rather than guessing at a whole contract. On MetaTrader the grid comes from the lot rules your own terminal reports, which is why the program in it has to be the current one. All three are per follower, because the accounts are not the same size.
- 5
Read the readiness panel before you trade, not after
The copier tells you whether it would copy the NEXT trade — before there is one — and each blocker names what is wrong: not connected, routing disabled, not armed, group paused, hand trades not copied, follower disabled, blind. Readiness refreshes about every twenty seconds rather than streaming, so a change you just made can take a moment to appear. That delay is in the display, not in the copying.
- 6
Take one small trade and watch it land
Open a single contract on the leader and watch it appear on the followers, then close it and watch the close copy too. Closing works the same way as opening. On a leader whose hand trades are not copied yet, send one alert instead. The group also has its own flatten, which closes every account in the group at once, the leader included, and each account's row has a Flatten that closes that account alone.
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.
“Not armed”
Three things show this line. Right after a leader connects, the copier has not finished its first comparison of the leader's positions; that clears itself within seconds, and a hand trade taken during it is not copied. On a spot leader — an Alpaca account — it stays for good: the account owns what it buys, so what it holds also moves for a deposit or a transfer in, and Tradeus will not read those as trades to fan out. The panel's headline then reads Not copying, but orders Tradeus places from an alert are still copied.
Which leaders have their hand trades copied
Whether a hand trade on the leader is copied depends on the leader's broker, not on a toggle on the group. Today it is copied from a Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 or Capital.com leader. On Alpaca it is a no by design. Orders Tradeus places from an alert are still copied from all of them. The readiness panel says which case you are in before you trade rather than after.
“Blind”
The broker has stopped answering. Copying continues for a short grace period and then stops, which is the right order: a few seconds of stale data is survivable, a minute of it is not.
Questions
Asked before buying, answered either way.
Can the leader and the followers be at different prop firms?
Yes, and on different brokers, as long as both trade the same market. Connect as many logins as you hold; no plan counts broker connections. A Rithmic leader can drive Tradovate followers, and the other way round.
Do the followers trade the same size as the leader?
Only if you ask them to, and only on Algo or Unlimited. Give a follower a dollar risk per trade and contracts are worked back from the stop distance, so every account risks the same money rather than trading the same size. That needs a stop, which an alert can carry and a trade placed by hand does not. On Manual, or with the risk left empty, a follower copies one for one, capped by its max contracts if you set one.
Are trades I take by hand copied?
From a Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 or Capital.com leader, yes. From an Alpaca leader, never: it owns what it buys, so there only the orders placed here from an alert are copied. It is not a toggle on the group. The readiness panel says plainly whether hand-taken trades are being copied right now, and it says it before the trade rather than after.
What happens when the leader closes?
The close is copied, the same way the open was. The group also carries its own flatten, which closes every account in the group at once, the leader included. To close one account only, use the Flatten on its row; a follower closed that way stays in the group and copies the leader's next trade unless you switch it off.
Does the copier need a TradingView subscription?
Not with a Tradovate leader. There the copier has nothing to do with TradingView, webhooks or Pine — it starts from an account and copies the trades you place by hand, which is why it is on every plan, including the one with no webhook endpoint. Also with a TradeLocker leader, since 25 September 2026, and with a Rithmic one since 26 September 2026 — which matters most of all, because most prop accounts are on Rithmic. Also with a Capital.com leader and a MetaTrader 5 one. On Alpaca, hand trades on the leader are never copied — it owns what it buys — so the only orders that reach the followers there are the ones placed from a TradingView alert, and that needs Algo or Unlimited.
In the handbook
The reference pages behind the steps above — one thing each, in full.
- Copier or strategy?The two are different tools and it is worth knowing which you want.
- Setting up a groupOne leader, several followers, one size rule each.
- Copy readinessWhy the panel says "not copying", in the order it checks.
- Nothing was copiedYou traded, the followers did not move, and there was no error. Here is why.
- 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.
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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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.