Copy one decision to every Rithmic account you hold
Rithmic is what most futures prop firms run on, so a copier for it has two jobs before it copies anything: logging in to the right Rithmic system, and reading back positions that Rithmic reports per dated contract rather than per symbol. Tradeus does both from a hosted server, so nothing has to run on your machine. Where a position cannot be matched to one of your symbols it refuses rather than guesses, and this page says what that costs. Whether your firm permits copying or automation on your account is the firm's to decide, so read your own account's terms.
Four fields, and the one people get wrong
Rithmic asks for a username, a password, a system and a gateway, and the system is the field that decides what you see. Pick the one your login belongs to: the same name as on R|Trader Pro's login screen. Many firms run a Rithmic system of their own, and it is in the list Tradeus shows, which comes from Rithmic. Rithmic Paper Trading is Rithmic's own simulated system, Rithmic 01 is live money, and Rithmic Test is Rithmic's own development environment. The gateway is the point of presence Tradeus routes through. Not every gateway carries every system, and Core (Chicago) lists the most; it is the default and sits closest to Tradeus's servers, so change it only if you have been told to. You do not add accounts by hand: once the login is up, the accounts it holds are listed underneath it. The same username on Paper Trading and on Rithmic 01 counts as two separate logins.
MNQ on your chart, MNQZ6 at Rithmic
Your alert names MNQ, but Rithmic trades and reports a dated contract such as MNQZ6. The first time in each session that a connection routes MNQ, it asks Rithmic which contract is the front month, sends the order there and records the pairing. Reading positions back, it maps each of your symbols forward onto the contracts that symbol has traded as, instead of cutting the month code off Rithmic's answer and guessing which symbol it was. A symbol keeps every contract it has traded as, so a position still held on the old contract after a roll reads as open rather than gone. The pairings are written down as well as held in memory, so a restart does not erase them; if a write fails, the cost is a refusal after the next restart, not a wrong order.
When the reading cannot say, it refuses
Where a position at Rithmic cannot be attributed to one of your symbols, the reading refuses: it answers that it does not know, never that the account is flat. An alert that would have been sized against that position is then sent at its own size, which is what Rithmic did before the reading existed. That has a cost: while the reading refuses, a position that already stands is not recognised, so a repeated entry alert can add to it. The alternative is a guess, and a guess is worse. Where two of your symbols land on the same contract, Rithmic reports one figure for both; in testing, handing that whole figure to whichever symbol asked turned an alert to be long 2 into an order to buy 6. The refusal sends the 2.
One decision, across firms and brokers
A TradingView alert reaches every account subscribed to its strategy, each sized for itself, and that needs the webhook, which is on Algo and Unlimited. The copier starts from an account instead: one leader and any number of followers. A futures leader takes futures followers, so one group can hold Rithmic and Tradovate accounts at different prop firms. Whichever broker the leader is on, orders Tradeus places on it from an alert are copied to its followers. Whether a trade you place by hand on the leader is copied depends on the leader's broker, not on a setting in the group. The copier's readiness panel says which case you are in before you trade, refreshing about every twenty seconds rather than streaming, and the copier pages of the handbook carry the current answer.
Sizes, stops, and followers a tick apart
Each follower carries its own size. On Algo and Unlimited, give it a risk per trade in its own currency and contracts are worked back from the stop distance, so a small evaluation and a larger funded account risk the same money on the same decision; that needs a stop, which an alert can carry. Max contracts is a ceiling on every plan. When an alert carries a stop and target, Rithmic takes them on the way in as a distance rather than a price, so each account's level starts from its own fill, and the event log says so. Followers almost never fill at your price, so on the way in their stops and targets sit a little way from yours.
The loss limit, and a balance Rithmic has not sent
A daily loss limit you set sits on the account, whichever strategy, copy group or hand placed the order. It is re-read about every five seconds rather than weighed against each order, so a fast market can carry the loss past it before the account is locked and its positions are closed. On Rithmic there is a second case worth knowing: the balance arrives on a separate data feed that can be down while orders route normally. A missing balance is not treated as zero, which would fire every limit at once. The lock refuses to measure and says so on the Account lock page, and until the balance returns, treat that account as unprotected. A dropped session leaves an armed limit unenforced in the same way.
The facts, in one place
- What Rithmic asks for
- Username, password, system, gateway
- System to pick
- The one your login belongs to, as on R|Trader Pro's login screen
- Gateway
- Core (Chicago) by default; it lists the most systems
- How Rithmic reports a position
- Per dated contract (MNQZ6), not per symbol (MNQ)
- A position it cannot attribute
- Refused: reported as unknown, never as flat
- Accounts counted on any plan
- None
- Daily loss limit, if you set one
- Re-read about every 5 seconds; acts once it is crossed
Checked against the product on 15 October 2026. If something here no longer matches what you see, tell us.
Questions people ask first
Which Rithmic system does a prop firm evaluation use?
The one your login was issued on: the same name you pick on R|Trader Pro's login screen. Many firms run a Rithmic system of their own, and it is in the list Tradeus shows; Rithmic Paper Trading is Rithmic's own simulated system. Rithmic 01 is live money and is routed exactly like any other system, with no read-only stage, so a live account that follows a strategy or a copy group trades real money. If you are unsure, open R|Trader Pro and read the System field; a wrong name is refused at login.
Does my prop firm allow a trade copier on its Rithmic accounts?
That is your firm's decision, not ours, and it can differ from one account to the next inside the same firm. We do not publish a list of what each firm permits, because we cannot keep one true and a stale list is worse than none. Read your own account's terms before you connect it. Nothing in Tradeus checks those rules for you.
What does copying across many Rithmic accounts cost?
No plan counts accounts. Broker logins, source accounts, target accounts and copy groups are unlimited on all three plans, so one funded account or fifteen costs the same. What the plans separate is automation and what comes with it, such as the TradingView webhook, how many strategies you run, risk-per-trade sizing, Tradeus AI and its monthly allowance, and support priority. The current prices are on the pricing page, read from the checkout rather than typed into this one.
Can I keep using my firm's own platform?
Yes. Tradeus connects as another client of Rithmic and your firm's platform keeps working. What connecting does do is claim that Rithmic login, username and system together, for your Tradeus account: it cannot run under two subscriptions at once, and removing the connection does not release it. If it genuinely needs to move, support moves it by hand.
Rithmic accounts, copied from wherever the decision comes from.
Connect a Rithmic login with its system and gateway, then let one leader or one alert reach every account behind it.