A group is one leader account and any number of followers. Each follower carries its own sizing so that a $25k evaluation and a $150k funded account can follow the same hand without the small one blowing up.
Groups and followers are not counted
One group is one source account. You can have as many groups as you want on every plan, and each can have as many followers as you want. Nothing you own is counted — not groups, not source accounts, not target accounts. What the plans separate is automation: the TradingView webhook and how many strategies you run. See Plans and billing. Per follower
Risk per trade
On Algo and Unlimited. The amount this account should risk per trade, in its own currency. Contracts are worked back from the stop distance, so every account risks the same money rather than trading the same size. It needs a stop distance to work from, and an alert states one. A trade you place by hand states nothing — Tradeus can see the stop resting behind it on some brokers, but a level is not a distance it may size from, and inventing one would size you off a number you never chose. So a hand trade is copied one for one unless a minimum stop distance is set.
Max contracts
A ceiling, applied after the calculation. On every plan.
Minimum stop distance
On Algo and Unlimited. In points. Guards against a tiny stop turning into an enormous position, and is the distance used for a trade placed by hand, which states no distance of its own.
Never smaller than the instrument trades
On every plan. When the calculation lands below the smallest size the instrument can be traded in at that broker, the trade is placed at that smallest size instead of being skipped. Where the broker publishes no size grid for an instrument at all, there is nothing to round to, so the switch does nothing and the trade log says so. On MetaTrader the grid comes from the lot rules your own terminal reports, so the switch does work there — with the current program in the terminal.
Leave the risk empty
Copy the leader's size one for one. On Manual this is how every follower copies.
Followers trade the leader's market
A follower has to be able to trade what the leader trades. A futures leader (Rithmic, Tradovate) takes futures followers; a CFD leader (TradeLocker, Capital.com, MetaTrader 5) takes CFD followers from any of the three, whose CFDs cover forex, crypto and — on TradeLocker and Capital.com — shares. One micro contract and one lot of US100 are different instruments, so the two are not mixed in one group: the account picker greys out the accounts that do not fit and says which market each side trades. Within a market, instrument names can still differ from broker to broker — see Symbol names per account. Closing works the same way as opening: when the leader closes an instrument, each follower closes its own position in it and nothing else. Where hand trades are copied — from a Tradovate, TradeLocker, Rithmic, MetaTrader 5 or Capital.com leader — a trade you place by hand on the leader is read in your broker's own spelling and handed on under the name your signals use, so each follower's own mapping still applies. The group also has its own Flatten all. It closes everything open on every connected account in the group at once, the leader included, not only the followers. Each row has its own Flatten as well, which closes that one account after asking; a follower closed that way stays in the group, so the leader's next trade is copied to it again unless you switch it off first.
Flatten on the leader's row
On the leader's row, Flatten sends a close for the leader's account alone, and nothing guarantees the followers close with it. To close every account in the group for certain, use the group's Flatten all.
Every change to a group — created, paused, follower added, sizing edited, deleted — writes a line into the event log (under "All"), so "when did I change that" has an answer you can read instead of remember.