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Rithmic
Futures, and what most futures prop firms run on. Asks for
Rithmic username, Password, Rithmic system and Gateway.Tradovate
Futures, connected by OAuth — you log in at Tradovate and Tradeus never sees the password.
TradeLocker
Forex and CFD prop firms. Asks for
E-mail, Password and Server — the server copied exactly as the TradeLocker login screen spells it. One instrument can be held as a long leg and a short leg at once there, which changes what the reading can answer. See Connecting TradeLocker.Capital.com
CFDs on forex, indices, commodities, shares and crypto. Asks for an
API key you create yourself — and the password belongs to that key, not to your account. See Connecting Capital.com.Alpaca
US shares and crypto — no futures at all. Asks for a
Key ID and Secret Key you generate yourself, and whether the key is paper or live. An Alpaca account HOLDS what it buys, which changes two things: it cannot be shorted, and Tradeus will not place a protective stop behind a position it did not open on its own. See Connecting Alpaca.Coming from a prop firm
Under the brokers, the connect screen has a Prop firm section. Pick the firm that gave you the login — or
Other firm… and type its name — and the next step shows only the platforms that firm issues logins on, with a link to all brokers if yours is not among them (after Other firm…, every broker is shown). For Rithmic, the system search opens on the firm's name; you still pick the system yourself, because its exact name is Rithmic's, and Connect stays off until you have. The connection is then filed under that firm on Broker setup — or, for a broker whose own sign-in page cannot carry the firm back, the connect screen says so and you file it with Edit firm once it is connected. Picking a firm changes nothing about the login itself, and you can change it later — see Accounts and what their status means. The whole path, broker by broker, is in Connect a prop firm account.What Alpaca cannot do, and why
An Alpaca account HOLDS what it buys — your own shares and coins sit in the same position as anything Tradeus opened there. Two things follow, and neither is a gap waiting to be filled: nothing can be sold short, and Tradeus will not put a protective stop behind such a position, because a stop is sized to the whole holding and would sell your own alongside its lot. A stop you set yourself in Alpaca IS read. Routing is also behind its own server switch, so a freshly connected Alpaca account reads but trades nothing until that is turned on. See Connecting Alpaca.
MetaTrader 5 works on whichever broker you use
A small program runs in your own terminal, so no password leaves your machine — and your broker's own lot rules come from the terminal rather than from a list we keep, which is why it does not matter whose MetaTrader you bring. See MetaTrader 5 in your terminal. A trade you place BY HAND on a MetaTrader leader is copied to its followers too, as long as the program in your terminal is the current one; the table below says which brokers that holds for.
Copying a trade you place by hand
Tradovate
Yes. A trade you place by hand on a Tradovate leader is copied to its followers.
Rithmic
Yes. A trade you place by hand on a Rithmic leader is copied to its followers. Rithmic reports what an account holds per CONTRACT ("MNQZ5"), not per the symbol you route ("MNQ"), so the reading maps your own symbols forward onto the contracts they trade as — and where a position cannot be attributed to one of your symbols, it refuses rather than guess. While it refuses, the readiness panel says so and your followers are left alone.
TradeLocker
Yes. A trade you place by hand on a TradeLocker leader is copied to its followers. A TradeLocker account can hold a long leg and a short leg of one instrument at the same time; while it does, the reading refuses rather than guess, the readiness panel says so, and your followers are left alone until the hedge is closed.
Capital.com
Yes. A trade you place by hand on a Capital.com leader is copied to its followers. Capital.com reports what an account holds under its OWN instrument id (it calls GOLD what you route as XAUUSD), so the reading maps your symbols forward onto those ids — and where a position cannot be attributed to one of your symbols, it refuses rather than guess. A Capital.com account can also be set to hold a long leg and a short leg of one instrument at the same time; while it does, the reading refuses rather than netting them to nothing, the readiness panel says so, and your followers are left alone until the hedge is closed. One limit worth knowing before you connect: an API key that lists more than one account gets no hand-trade copying at all, because Capital.com publishes no way to ask which of them a positions answer belongs to — the reading refuses by name instead of answering for the wrong account.
TopstepX
Not supported — and not selectable yet either.
MetaTrader 5
Yes. A trade you place by hand on a MetaTrader 5 leader is copied to its followers. It needs the current version of the small program that runs in your own terminal: download Tradeus.mq5 again (Connecting MetaTrader 5 links it, and no new token is needed), because older versions cannot report a long and a short in the same symbol separately, and cannot state your broker's lot sizes either — a terminal running an older one is refused by name rather than read wrongly. A MetaTrader account can hold a long leg and a short leg of one instrument at the same time, and at most brokers that is the default; while it does, the reading refuses rather than guess, the readiness panel says so, and your followers are left alone until the hedge is closed. The newest version also reads the stop and target resting on each of your positions, so Tradeus can see what you set by hand in your own terminal — an older copy reports neither, and Tradeus then says it cannot see your stop rather than telling you that you have none.
Alpaca
No. Alpaca accounts hold what they buy, so a trade you place by hand on an Alpaca leader is never copied to followers — copying a sale would sell the follower's own holdings. You can connect an Alpaca account and send it alerts; it just cannot be the account others copy FROM.
cTrader
Not yet. The reading is built and has been checked against real cTrader accounts — a cTrader position carries its stop and target as prices, so Tradeus can see what you set by hand in your own platform — but no order has ever been placed through it, so it is switched off and cTrader is not selectable yet. One thing to know for when it is: a cTrader account is created as either hedging or netting, and on a hedging account a long and a short of the same instrument can be open at once. While that is true the reading refuses rather than netting them to nothing, the readiness panel says so, and your followers are left alone until the hedge is closed.
What the reading refuses to guess on TradeLocker
A TradeLocker account keeps every order as its own position rather than netting them, so one instrument can be held as several legs at once — including a long leg and a short leg side by side. Read carelessly, those two cancel out and the account looks flat, which on a leader account is the instruction to close every follower. So the reading either answers exactly what the account holds in each instrument, or it answers nothing at all and says why: a hedge, an instrument the account's own list does not name, or a position list shorter than the number of positions the broker itself reports. While it answers nothing, the copier's readiness panel shows the sentence and your followers are left alone. That was watched on a prop firm's demo server, with real money nowhere near it, before hand trades were switched on. Each refusal, the clock it appears on and the one server setting behind it are in Connecting TradeLocker.
The same three brokers, the same reading
Capital.com and MetaTrader 5 have the same shape of problem and the same reading was built for each. A Capital.com account can be set to hold a long and a short position in one instrument at the same time, and so can a MetaTrader account — on MetaTrader that is usually the default. Read carelessly, the two cancel out and the account looks flat. So on both, the reading either answers exactly what the account holds in each instrument or it answers nothing at all and says why, and while it answers nothing your followers are left alone. On MetaTrader there is one extra step that is yours rather than ours: the small program that runs in your own terminal has to be the newest version, because older ones report only the difference between your long and your short and cannot say there are two. Alpaca is different again and is a plain no — an Alpaca account holds what it buys, so copying a sale would sell a follower's own shares. Both of the others are switched on: MetaTrader 5 since 28.09.2026, after a run on a practice terminal with the hedge refusal included, and Capital.com since 05.10.2026, after its reading had answered for a real practice account — its hedge refusal has been tested against a simulation of Capital.com's documented answers, not yet watched on a real account. Alpaca stays a no by design.
On every broker you can select, the orders Tradeus places from your TradingView alerts fan out to the followers. Only a trade you place yourself, in the broker's own platform, depends on the rows above. The copier's readiness panel says which case your leader is in — see Copy readiness.
TradeLocker accounts often keep every order as a separate position rather than netting them. Tradeus treats a signal against an open position as a reduction of it: a sell against a long closes the oldest long first, partially if needed, and only what is left over opens a new position — so an exit never leaves a hedge behind.
TradeLocker limits how often an account may be asked for its positions — often once per second. When several signals arrive at the same moment, Tradeus places them one after another within those limits, so the second order can land a second or two after the first. Nothing is dropped.
TopstepX is listed but not yet selectable. The connection is built — since July 2025 it is the only way into a Topstep account, so it is shown rather than hidden — but it has not yet been run against a real TopstepX account, and until it has, we would rather say so than let you find out with an order. It also needs a ProjectX API subscription, which you buy from Topstep and not from us ($29/mo, $14.50 with the code topstep).
cTrader is listed but not yet selectable. The reading has been checked against real cTrader accounts — the stop and the target you set by hand in your own platform both arrive — but no order has ever been placed through it, and until one has we would rather say so than let you find out with a trade. One more thing is worth knowing before you connect one: cTrader accounts come in two kinds, hedging and netting, and the kind is fixed when the account is created. On a HEDGING account an order in the opposite direction does not shrink the position you hold — it opens a second position beside it — so Tradeus refuses a part-exit on such an account by name rather than sending one, and says what it refused. Closing the position completely still works: that goes out against the position's own id and not as an opposing order. cTrader has no futures either, so a futures strategy cannot be routed to it.
Start on an account you can afford to be wrong on
Tradeus no longer offers a simulated broker of its own — the one worth practising on is the one your firm gave you. Connect a Rithmic Paper Trading login, or a TradeLocker demo server, or the evaluation account you have not passed yet. Everything in this handbook runs the same way on it, and a malformed alert costs you nothing but the lesson.
Your plan does not limit how many brokers you connect
Connect as many brokers and logins as you hold, on every plan — a target account may perfectly well sit at a second prop firm, and refusing that login would be refusing you the thing you are paying for. Nothing else you own is counted either: source accounts, target accounts and copy groups are unlimited on all three plans. What the plans separate is automation — the TradingView webhook and how many strategies you run. See Plans and billing.