A login from a prop firm connects like any other login of its platform, and nothing about the login changes. What picking the firm adds is order: Broker setup files the connection under that firm, so six evaluations at three firms stop looking like one list of account numbers.
- 1Pick the firm under Prop firmOn Broker setup press
Add connection. Below the brokers sits the Prop firm section — pick the firm that gave you the login. A firm that is not there goes in asOther firm…: type its name the way you want to see it, up to 40 characters. - 2Pick the platform it gave youThe next step shows only the platforms that firm issues logins on, with
Show all brokersunderneath for a firm that has moved since. Topstep shows only TopstepX, which cannot be connected yet — so a Rithmic or Tradovate login you hold from Topstep goes through Show all brokers, and is still filed under Topstep. After Other firm… every broker is shown. - 3Log in the way that platform asksEach platform takes its login exactly as it does without a firm. Above the form, the connect screen says the connection will be filed under the firm — or, where the platform's own sign-in cannot take the firm along, that you file it afterwards. How each one handles it is in the table below these steps.
- 4Find it under the firm on Broker setupEach firm you have filed a connection under gets a heading of its own: the firm's logo or its initials, its name, and how many connections and accounts sit under it. Listed firms come first, then names you typed as Other firm…, and last Own accounts, marked as not filed under a prop firm.
- 5File the logins you connected beforeA connection made before you picked a firm sits under Own accounts.
Edit firmon it opens a list: choose the firm, or Other firm… and its name, and save. The first entry,Own account — not from a prop firm, takes a connection back out of a firm. Only the grouping changes; the login, its accounts and what they trade do not. - 6Name the accountsThe pencil beside an account renames it. A nickname can be up to 40 characters long, and the broker's number stays next to it in small type, because that number is what your firm and your broker go by. Share cards show no nicknames, and event-log lines from before a rename keep the old name.
- 7Close one account and leave the rest
Flattenon an account's row closes every open position on that account at market, after asking, and touches no other account. It closes what is open now and nothing more: strategies and copy groups that trade the account keep running, so the next signal or copied trade can open a position on it again. For a whole connection there isFlatten all; for everything you own at once, the kill switch.
How each platform takes the firm
Tradovate
The firm travels through Tradovate's own sign-in and comes back with the connection. Before you connect a second firm's Tradovate login, sign out at trader.tradovate.com — the note below says why. See Connecting Tradovate.
Rithmic
The firm goes with the form. A listed firm that issues Rithmic logins puts a search for it in the system box — a word from its name, such as Apex — and a name you typed as Other firm… is searched as typed. A firm without Rithmic on its list, reached through Show all brokers, leaves the box empty. It is a search and not a choice: pick your system from the list yourself — the exact name is Rithmic's — and the button stays greyed out until you do. See Connecting Rithmic.
TradeLocker, Capital.com, MetaTrader 5
No listed firm is catalogued on these, so reach them through Other firm… or through Show all brokers under a listed firm. The firm goes with the sign-in form — for MetaTrader 5, with the token request — and the connection lands under it.
Alpaca
Not a prop-firm platform and on no firm's list. Connected with a key, it is filed like the others; connected through Alpaca's own sign-in page, the firm cannot travel with it — the connect screen tells you so, and you file it with Edit firm once it is connected.
TopstepX
Listed and not selectable yet, so Topstep's own platform cannot be connected today. See Which brokers work.
Connecting a login that is already here
A login you sign in with — Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker, Capital.com or Alpaca — never becomes a second connection once it is here: connecting it again refreshes the one you have, and if you picked a firm on the way, files that connection under the new firm. MetaTrader 5 is the exception, because Tradeus never sees a login there: every token is a connection of its own, so asking for another one adds a connection beside the first. On Tradovate this can happen without you noticing. Its consent screen takes whichever Tradovate login your browser is still signed in to, so a second firm's login connected without signing out first brings back the first login — and moves its connection to the firm you just picked. Edit firm moves it back; sign out at trader.tradovate.com and connect the second login again.
Every state a connection and an account can be in, and the rest about filing, nicknames and both Flatten buttons, is in Accounts and what their status means. A firm's login is still one broker login and belongs to one Tradeus account — see A broker login belongs to one Tradeus account. To copy one firm's account to the others, see Setting up a group.