Symbol names per account

One signal, each account's own name for the instrument.

Brokers name the same instrument differently: the chart sends BTCUSDT, one broker lists BTCUSD, another NAS100 as US100, a third a share as AAPL.US. Before any order leaves, Tradeus translates the signal's symbol into each account's own name — separately for every follower of a copy group and every account following a strategy.

1. Your mapping
If you saved a mapping for this account, it wins.
2. The broker's list
Otherwise Tradeus looks the symbol up in the instruments the account's broker offers: the exact name, a stablecoin quote read as dollars (BTCUSDT → BTCUSD), the usual index names (NAS100 / US100 / USTEC) and a suffixed share (AAPL → AAPL.US).
3. Unchanged
Futures accounts use the symbol exactly as sent.
No match means no trade — never a guess
If the broker has nothing that fits, or two instruments that fit equally (AAPL.US and AAPL.DE), that account is skipped and the event log names the account and the symbol it lacks. Nothing is sent to the broker. The other accounts trade as usual.

To fix it, open the account's mapping — the ⇄ button beside a follower on Trade Copier, or Symbol mapping in a strategy subscription's settings — and add a line: what the signal sends on the left, what this account calls it on the right. Case does not matter: Tradeus sends the name the way your broker spells it. A mapping belongs to the account, so it applies to every group and strategy that account trades in. Exits use the same translation.

Close first, then change a mapping
A mapping cannot be changed while the account still holds the instrument it points at, or while an order is parked under that name waiting for your confirmation — the position sits at the broker under the name it was opened with, and every later exit would ask for the new name, find nothing, and report itself done while the old position stays open. Close it (or confirm or discard the parked order) first. A mapping that points at an instrument your broker does not list is refused in the same spirit: that account is skipped and the log says so, rather than an order going out under a name only you know.

Sizing follows the translated instrument: a CFD that happens to be called ES is sized by its broker's lot size, not by the CME contract of the same name.

Open in Tradeus

Trade Copier — requires an account.

Step-by-step

Send a TradingView alert to a Capital.com account

Capital.com is the one broker here you bring your own API key to, and it has two surprises that both come down to names. The password it asks for is not your account password, and the instrument it trades is not the ticker on your chart — XAUUSD there is GOLD. Neither is difficult once you know; both are confusing for an afternoon if you do not.

Send a TradingView alert to an Alpaca account

Alpaca is the odd one out here, and the most useful thing this page can do is say so before you spend an evening on it: there are no futures. If you came looking for a way to automate a funded futures account, this is the wrong broker and one of the other pages is the right one. If you trade US shares or crypto, three differences are worth knowing first.

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