Frequently asked questions.

A hosted trade copier and alert-to-order service for prop-firm and personal broker accounts. An alert — from TradingView or your own bot — becomes an order on the accounts you choose, a trade on a leader account is copied to its followers, and each account can carry daily limits that lock it once crossed. It places orders on Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker, Capital.com and MetaTrader 5, and it never decides what to trade.

No. Most brokers connect with a sign-in or an API key, and MetaTrader 5 needs a file we give you, compiled with one key press in MetaEditor. Each strategy shows a ready-made TradingView alert message, with your passphrase filled in when you create it (it is shown once, so paste it then), and you paste that into the alert. The trading logic is yours, in a TradingView strategy or indicator. On Manual there are no alerts: you trade the leader by hand and the followers copy it.

No, except on MetaTrader 5. The endpoint, the copier and the account lock run on our servers, so on Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker and Capital.com orders go out while your computer is off. On MetaTrader 5 a small program in your own terminal places the orders: when the terminal closes or the machine sleeps, nothing reaches that account and nothing warns you. Keep it on a machine that stays awake, such as a VPS.

The mechanical part takes about ten minutes: connect your broker, create a strategy, paste its URL and ready-made message into a TradingView alert, subscribe an account, set its size and switch the subscription on, since a new one starts off. MetaTrader 5 adds steps in your terminal: compile our file with F7, allow our address, and put it on a chart with its token. Then fire one alert by hand and read the event log before relying on it.

No. You can sign in with Google or with Discord; both create the same kind of account, and you come back with whichever you used. There is no Tradeus password to create. Support is one email address, support@tradeus.app, so Discord is not needed for that either.

Five brokers take orders today: Tradovate and Rithmic for futures, and TradeLocker, Capital.com and MetaTrader 5 for CFDs on forex, indices and commodities. Connect as many logins as you hold, from any firm, on every plan. Alpaca also connects, for US shares and crypto with no futures, but its order routing has its own switch on our server, and until that is on an Alpaca account is read, not traded.

Tradovate uses OAuth: you sign in on Tradovate's own page and we never see the password. Rithmic and TradeLocker take your platform login, and Capital.com and Alpaca take an API key you create. What you enter is encrypted with AES-256-GCM, never shown back, and deleted with the connection. MetaTrader 5 takes no password: a small program in your own terminal asks us what to do, so that terminal has to stay open.

Yes, as long as both trade the same market, and they can sit at different prop firms too. Futures accounts (Tradovate, Rithmic) copy each other, and CFD accounts (TradeLocker, Capital.com, MetaTrader 5) copy each other; the account picker greys out any follower that doesn't fit. Each follower gets its own broker's name for the instrument, and where its broker has no clear match, that follower is skipped and the event log says why.

TopstepX and cTrader: not yet. Both are built and listed on the connect screen, but you can't select either one, because no order has been placed through either on a real account. TopstepX also needs a ProjectX API subscription that you buy from Topstep, and cTrader has no futures. NinjaTrader isn't connected and isn't planned. If your firm gave you a Tradovate login or a Rithmic login, that login connects here; for Rithmic you pick the system name you use on R|Trader Pro.

Any firm whose accounts you sign into with Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker or MetaTrader 5, evaluation or funded. Tradeus connects to the platform and is not affiliated with any firm. When you connect, pick the firm first and then the platform it gave you, and Broker setup lists that login under the firm's name, so logins from several firms stay apart; a firm that is not listed can be typed in. For Rithmic you pick the system your login belongs to, the same name as on R|Trader Pro's login screen, a firm's own system included. MetaTrader 5 needs its terminal kept open with our program on a chart; the others run on our servers. TopstepX and cTrader are listed but not selectable yet.

Yes. Make the account you trade the leader of a copy group and the others its followers, at other firms or brokers too, as long as they trade the same market (futures with futures, CFDs with CFDs). Orders go out to followers in parallel, up to eight at a time. Each copies one for one under an optional contract cap, or on Algo and Unlimited risks a set amount per trade.

Not by itself. It enforces limits you set on each account (daily loss, daily profit target, session drawdown, and trades per session, which counts the orders placed from your alerts), and nothing is armed until you set it. Each armed account is re-read about every five seconds and locks the moment a limit is reached, exactly at your number, so leave room for a fast market. What is open is then closed where the broker allows it. On Rithmic, which does not report open P&L yet, the lock measures only while the account is flat. The lock's drawdown resets at 17:00 New York; your firm's account drawdown is not tracked, so read that number at the firm.

Your firm's own rules decide that, and they can differ per firm, per account and over time. Read your firm's current terms on copy trading, automation and third-party tools before you connect, and again when they change. We do not publish a list of what each firm permits because it would not stay true, and a breached account is not something we can undo.

No. Broker connections, source accounts, target accounts and copy groups are unlimited on all three plans, so one funded account or fifteen costs the same. The plans differ by automation: Manual copies trades you place by hand, Algo adds the TradingView webhook with three strategies and risk-per-trade sizing, and Unlimited lifts the strategy limit. Every risk limit and the kill switch are on every plan.

It depends mostly on your broker, so every fill in the trade log shows its own time rather than one quoted number. The log splits it into Tradeus's own work, usually single-digit milliseconds, and your broker's round trip. A hand trade on a Tradovate or Rithmic leader reaches Tradeus as it happens. On the other brokers a check every fifteen seconds finds it, and the copier's readiness panel shows the worst case.

Yes. For a strategy, size is set per account: the alert's quantity times a factor, a fixed number of contracts, a fixed risk amount, or a percentage of the balance. In a copy group each follower copies the leader one for one, up to its own maximum. On Algo and Unlimited a follower can instead risk a set amount, sized from the stop distance. For hand trades that needs a minimum stop distance.

Yes, when the account you trade on leads a copy group and is on Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker, Capital.com or MetaTrader 5. This works on every plan, Manual included. MetaTrader 5 needs its terminal running with the current Tradeus program. A hand trade on an Alpaca account is never copied, because an Alpaca account holds what it buys. The copier's readiness panel tells you before you trade whether your next hand trade will be copied.

A rejected order is logged as an error with the reason, account, symbol and size, and your other accounts keep trading. Strategy orders are retried only if you turn retries on. If the broker does not answer in time, the log says the order may still have gone through. Alerts carrying position_size together with a direction (sentiment or position) trade only the difference to what the account holds at the broker, so a missed or partial fill is evened out by the next one; the ready-made strategy message carries both.

Yes. Each follower in a copy group has its own on/off switch, and each account's subscription to a strategy can be switched off on its own. Everything else keeps trading. A switched-off account gets no exits from Tradeus either, so deal with any open position on it first. To close everything on one account, use Flatten on its row; on one broker connection or one copy group, use its Flatten all.

Yes, on every plan, at the top of the Account lock page. One press, after you confirm, pauses every strategy and copy group, holds new entries, discards orders waiting for your confirmation, and closes open positions at market where the broker allows it. It cannot cancel orders you placed directly at your broker. Any account it could not close is listed as NOT closed, for you to close yourself. Releasing it restarts nothing.

On Algo and Unlimited, TradingView posts the alert to your strategy's webhook URL, which checks the passphrase and records the signal. Every subscribed account then applies its own size, trading window, signal-age limit and account lock before a market order goes to its broker, or waits for your confirmation if that subscription is set to manual. A new subscription starts switched off, and until one is on, the strategy trades nothing.

Usually not. The endpoint reads the message format TradersPost publishes for TradingView, so most alerts need only the new webhook URL and your strategy's passphrase added to the message. Every order goes out as a market order, and cancel and add are refused with a reason. Fields Tradeus does not read are ignored, so a stop or target has to arrive as sl and tp.

Both: each strategy shows two ready-made messages. The strategy one uses TradingView's placeholders for direction, size and target position, so Tradeus trades only the difference to what the account holds. The indicator one writes the direction as text, one alert per direction, and each account's sizing setting decides the size (Signal sizing starts from 1). You can also build the JSON in Pine with alert().

Yes. Tradeus does not offer a simulated broker, so test on an account where a mistake is cheap: a Rithmic Paper Trading login, a TradeLocker or Capital.com demo, or an evaluation if your firm's rules allow automation on it. On Algo and Unlimited, Send test alert places a real buy order through the whole pipeline on every switched-on subscription. On a manual subscription each signal waits until you submit or discard it.

Yes. The ready-made templates leave them out, so add sl and tp as price levels and keep the price field: where a broker takes only a distance, Tradeus measures it from price to sl. Both go out with the entry on the account and every follower where the broker can hold them, and the event log names any account left unprotected. Risk-based sizing uses the same distance.

Yes, on the plans that carry one, and a card is asked for at the start. On the pricing page a plan with a trial says so on its button, with the number of days. The card is charged only when the trial ends, and not at all if you cancel before. The trial is once per person, whichever plan it was on: an account that has had one, or whose broker login has been through Tradeus before, is offered the plans at the normal price, and a broker login belongs to one Tradeus account only, so a second account cannot connect it. Where a plan has no version without the trial yet, the checkout says so and we set it up for you.

Unless you cancel before it ends, the trial becomes a paid subscription at the price shown at the checkout, and Billing shows the date of the first charge. Cancel during the trial and the card is never charged; access still runs to the trial's end. Nothing has to be set up again: a trial is the same software, and orders placed during it are real orders on your connected accounts.

Open the account menu in the top right, choose Billing, press Cancel subscription and confirm, with no email to anyone. Access continues to the end of the period already paid for, or the end of the trial, and nothing is charged after it; the page shows the exact date. Until then the same page offers Resume subscription, which continues the plan at the same price and renewal day.

Cancelling stops the next payment; it does not refund the period already paid for. Refunds are made by Whop, which takes the payment. If the service did not do what it was sold as doing, write to support@tradeus.app first: we check our logs and support your request to Whop. EU consumers also have a 14-day right of withdrawal, set out in the Terms, with a proportionate charge for time already used.

Yes. Signed in, the pricing page marks the other plans Upgrade or Downgrade and another billing cycle Switch; each opens your order page at Whop, where the change is made. Nothing you built is removed and accounts are never counted, but Manual refuses TradingView alerts because it has no webhook. If Whop does not offer the change, cancel and buy the new plan when your paid period ends.