One Tradovate account leads, the others follow
A trade copier repeats the orders on one account on your other accounts. Here that is a copy group: one Tradovate leader, any number of followers, each sized for itself, and no plan counts the accounts in it. Tradovate connects by OAuth, so there is no password to type here. The cost of that is a token that has to keep being renewed, and it is the Tradovate-specific failure worth knowing before you rely on the copier.
One leader, any number of followers
A copy group is one leader account and any number of followers, and orders on the leader are repeated on each follower, sized for that follower. Neither groups nor followers are counted on any plan, so one funded account or eight costs the same. Followers have to trade the leader's market. A Tradovate account is a futures account, so its followers are futures accounts too: other Tradovate accounts, on the same login or another one (including one issued by a second firm), or Rithmic accounts. The account picker greys out anything that does not fit and says which market each side trades. When the leader closes an instrument, each follower closes its own position in it and nothing else, and the group's own Flatten all tries to close what is open on every connected account in the group, the leader included, where the broker lets Tradeus close.
Connecting Tradovate: OAuth, and the token behind it
Tradovate uses OAuth, so there is no password field here: you are sent to Tradovate, you log in there, and the token that comes back is stored encrypted against the connection. Tradovate runs two deployments that cannot see each other's accounts, and after you approve, both are checked. Accounts appear marked Demo or Live, and that mark is the difference between simulated prop-firm money and real cash. The cost is the token. It lives about 90 minutes and Tradovate issues no refresh token, so it is renewed while the connection is open. It lapses if the connection stays closed for longer than that, or if the renewals cannot reach Tradovate for long enough, which is a broker outage rather than anything you did. The connection then says Authorization expired, and nothing routes through it until you press Re-authorize and approve again at Tradovate.
Copying an account is not sending an alert
A strategy starts from a signal: TradingView posts an alert to a webhook, and the order goes to every account subscribed to that strategy. The copier starts from an account instead. They are different tools, and nothing stops you running both on different accounts. The plans split along the same line: the copier is on every plan, including Manual, which has no TradingView webhook at all, while alerts need Algo or Unlimited. Orders placed on a leader from an alert are copied to its followers on every broker you can select. Without a webhook, the only thing the copier has to copy is a trade you place yourself on the leader, in the broker's own platform, and whether that is copied depends on the leader's broker. The copier's readiness panel says which case yours is in before you trade, and the copier handbook has the details. The alert path to Tradovate has its own guide.
Sizing each follower for itself
Size belongs to each follower, not to the group. On Algo and Unlimited, give a follower an amount to risk per trade and contracts are worked back from the stop distance, so a small evaluation and a funded account several times its size risk the same money rather than trading the same size. That needs a stop distance to work from. An alert can state one; a trade placed by hand states none, so where one is copied it goes one for one unless the follower has a minimum stop distance set. Leave the risk empty and the follower copies the leader's size one for one, which is how every follower copies on Manual. A max-contracts ceiling, applied after the calculation, is on every plan.
What it does not do for you
It does not decide whether copying is allowed. Whether your firm permits copying between accounts is set by that firm and can differ per account, so read your own account's terms before you add a follower. It does not weigh each order against a daily loss limit either. A limit you set sits on the account and holds whether the order came from a strategy or the copier, but it is checked about every five seconds rather than before each order, so a fast market can carry the loss past it before the account is locked and what is open on it is closed, where the broker lets Tradeus close. And a Tradovate login belongs to one Tradeus account: the first connection claims it, and removing the connection does not release it.
Read the readiness panel before the first trade
The copier says whether it would copy the next trade before there is one, and each blocker names what is wrong: not connected, routing disabled, not armed, group paused, follower disabled, blind, among others. It refreshes about every twenty seconds rather than streaming, so a change you just made can take a moment to show; that delay is in the display, not in the copying. Blind means the last reading of the leader produced no answer. Copying continues from the last picture that did for about a minute and then stops, and no follower is closed on a reading nobody could confirm. Then put one small order through the leader, from an alert if you like, and watch it reach each follower before you give it size.
The facts, in one place
- What Tradovate asks for
- Nothing typed here: OAuth, no password stored
- Tradovate access token
- About 90 minutes, no refresh token, renewed while connected
- Followers per group
- Unlimited on every plan
- Accounts a plan counts
- None; one funded account or eight costs the same
- Followers a Tradovate leader takes
- Futures accounts, on Tradovate or Rithmic
- Readiness refresh
- About every 20 seconds
- Daily loss limit
- Re-read about every 5 seconds; acts once crossed
Checked against the product on 15 October 2026. If something here no longer matches what you see, tell us.
Questions people ask first
Can one Tradovate account copy to several others?
Yes. Make it the leader of a copy group and add the others as followers. Neither groups nor followers are counted on any plan, so one funded account or eight costs the same. Followers have to trade futures like the leader, so they can be other Tradovate accounts, on the same login or another one (including one issued by a second firm), or Rithmic accounts. Each follower carries its own size, its own contract ceiling and its own on/off switch.
Does the copier need TradingView?
It is not required to set one up: the copier is on every plan, including Manual, which has no TradingView webhook, and it starts from the leader account rather than from an alert. But without an alert, the only thing the copier has to copy is a trade you place yourself on the leader, in the broker's own platform, and whether that is copied depends on the leader's broker. The readiness panel says which case you are in before you trade. Orders placed on the leader from an alert are copied to the followers on every broker you can select.
Does my prop firm allow copy trading between accounts?
That is your firm's answer to give, not ours, and it can differ per account inside one 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 a follower, and read them again when the firm changes them.
What happens when Tradovate authorization expires?
A Tradovate access token lives about 90 minutes and Tradovate issues no refresh token, so it is renewed from the token already held while the connection is open. It lapses if the connection stays closed for longer than a token lives, or if the renewals cannot reach Tradovate for long enough, which is a broker outage rather than something you did. The connection then shows Authorization expired with a Re-authorize button, and nothing routes while it says that.
Does the daily loss limit stop the copied order that would breach it?
No. A daily loss limit you set is not weighed against each order in advance. A watchdog re-reads each armed account about every five seconds and locks it once a limit has been reached, so the order that crosses it has already gone through, and a fast market can carry the account past the figure. Once the account is locked it takes no new entries from your alerts or the copier, and exits still go through.
One Tradovate leader, as many followers as you hold.
Tradovate connects by OAuth, so there is nothing to type. Connect every login you hold and choose which account leads.