Platform notes
What the copier supports on each platform, with cTrader copy rules, trading hours and symbol matching.
Each copier group runs on one platform, and each platform copies a little differently. Read the section for the platform your group uses; you can skip the rest.
Check availability
| Platform | New groups | Live copying |
|---|---|---|
| Tradovate and NinjaTrader | Yes | Yes |
| cTrader | With a cTrader connection you already have | Yes |
| Match-Trader | With a Match-Trader connection you already have | Not available yet |
| Rithmic | With a Rithmic connection you already have | Not available yet for prop-firm evaluation or live accounts |
| DXtrade | Existing groups only | Demo accounts only |
| TradeLocker | Existing groups only | Not available yet |
| dxFeed and DeepCharts | Existing groups only | Not available yet |
New connections are open for Tradovate and NinjaTrader. Other platforms show Coming soon in Add connection, and connections you already have keep working.
When live copying is not available for a group, turning it on shows "Live copying isn't available for this group", and the Copier Canvas says why. A group that was already copying on such a platform opens no new trades, but keeps managing the trades it already copied.
Copy on Tradovate and NinjaTrader
- The group copies every symbol the master trades, on the same contract.
- Followers copy the master's contract quantity, one for one, up to Maximum per trade.
- Market entries, scale-ins and exits copy as they fill. With Pending entries on in the master's Protection, limit and stop entry orders copy before they fill.
- Stop-loss and profit-target fills from a Tradovate ATM strategy copy as market exits. The protective orders themselves are not copied.
- Positions the master already holds when copying starts are never copied.
- When trackmyprop cannot tell whether a master trade opened or closed a position, it skips that trade and tells you. If followers hold copied positions on that symbol, future copies pause for review.
- A follower that cannot connect does not stop the group. Its open positions are reported as not managed, each master trade it misses becomes a missed entry, and it rejoins when it reconnects.
- Reconnecting a Tradovate login stops every group that uses it. They restart together.
- Follower protection only warns. See Alerts and recovery.
- You can lock copying to one follower for a set time. See Follower risk.
Copy on cTrader
A cTrader group copies one master symbol to a matching symbol on each follower. Its rules are under the master's Copy rules and Settings.
- Every account must be in Hedged mode at cTrader. Netted and spread-betting accounts cannot copy. If a mode cannot be confirmed, check it in cTrader, then choose Sync now in Live Connections.
- The master and every follower must be all live or all demo accounts.
- Turning the group on checks the current contract sizes at both brokers. Fix each flagged symbol, or save an explicit Same lots choice, then choose Enable live.
- A follower you add while the group is on starts paused. Turn it on after the contract check.
If cTrader later reports an account as Netted or unconfirmed, new entries stop for that account, while closes and protection for copied trades continue. Return it to Hedged and choose Sync now.
In the master's Copy rules:
- Copied entries: Both sides, Buys only or Sells only.
- Pending entries: copy limit and stop orders before they fill.
- Stop loss and Take profit: see the stop-loss accordion below.
- Open positions on start: copy master positions that were already open when you turned on live copying for the group, or when that follower was added. It never copies a position opened after that, including one opened while the group was off or trackmyprop was closed.
- Master trade size: an optional minimum and maximum in lots, inclusive. With
0.25to2, a 0.25-lot or 2-lot entry copies; 0.24 and 2.01 lots are skipped. It applies to new entries and increases only, never to closes. Partial fills are judged by the size of the whole master order. - Max entry deviation: in pips; empty means off. A follower whose price moved further than this from the master's fill skips that market entry, and it is not retried. Pending entries are not affected.
In the master's Settings, Only copy label/comment prefixes and Skip label/comment prefixes filter master trades by their cTrader label or comment. Skip wins when a prefix is in both.
Choose one mode for each side:
- Mirror master keeps the master's distance, measured from each follower's own entry.
- Fixed distance always places the level the set number of pips away, even when the master has none.
- Master + buffer keeps the master's distance and adds the set pips further from the entry. If the master has no level, none is added.
Distances accept 0.1 to 10,000 pips. Turning Stop loss or Take profit off keeps the saved mode for later. A fixed level stays when the master removes its level; a buffered level is removed with it.
When the follower's broker publishes a minimum stop distance and a copied level on a new market entry is too close, that follower's entry is blocked instead of opening with weaker protection. Symbols shows those minimums in pips.
Open Copy rules, choose Trading hours, and add one or more windows to each weekday. Each group has its own timezone, which follows daylight saving changes.
- A window includes its start time and excludes its end time: a 09:00 to 17:00 window accepts 09:00 but is closed at 17:00.
- An end earlier than the start runs overnight. 00:00 to 00:00 is a full day.
- Windows can touch but cannot overlap.
Outside the windows, new entries, scale-ins, new pending entries and already-open positions are blocked. Closes, cancellations, and stop-loss and take-profit changes for copied trades continue. An entry skipped outside hours is not copied when the window opens again.
A pending order the follower's broker already accepted can still fill outside the window. Cancel pending entries before the window closes if you do not want that.
Brokers can list the same market under different names, such as EURUSD and EURUSD.raw. To review a follower's symbols, select it, open Symbols and choose Manage symbols.
- A tradable symbol with the same name matches automatically.
- A match with a broker prefix or suffix is a Suggestion. Confirm it before it is used.
- With no safe suggestion, search the follower's symbol list and pick the exact symbol.
- Lookalikes such as
US100andUS1000, orGOLDandXAUUSD, are never matched for you. - A missing, disabled or close-only follower symbol stays blocked. trackmyprop never falls back to a similar name.
- Each follower symbol can be linked to only one master symbol.
Use All markets beside the search to filter by the broker's market groups, when the broker provides them.
Contract aligned sizing keeps the same exposure when lot sizes differ. If one NASDAQ lot is 10 units at the master's broker and 100 at the follower's, a 1.00 lot master trade copies as 0.10 lots. Copying 1.00 lots would be 10 times the exposure.
If a broker adds, renames or changes a symbol later, turn the group off, correct the follower's symbol, and turn it on again.
Other platforms
- New master fills copy to the same futures contract as market orders. Filled exits reduce the copied position.
- Start with every account flat. Followers use matching quantities (
1×). - A copy above Maximum per trade, a rejected copy, a delayed fill or a position mismatch pauses the group for review. Check every account in Rithmic and return them to flat before turning the group on again.
- Fills from while copying was off are never copied, entries or exits.
- Existing positions, pending orders, stop losses, take profits and follower protection are not copied. Manage protective orders in Rithmic.
- Copying works when the master and every follower are Demo accounts.
- A group uses either CFD / Forex or Crypto accounts, never both.
- A trade opened while copying was off is not copied, and neither are later scale-ins or closes on that master position. Closes of positions the copier opened earlier still copy.
- If a copy might have reached the broker before its result was saved, for example because trackmyprop quit mid-send, the group turns off for review and never retries it. Check the accounts at the broker, then turn the group on again.
Live copying is not available yet. Match-Trader groups can be created and set up with a connection you already have, but they cannot be turned on. Existing TradeLocker, dxFeed and DeepCharts groups stay visible so you can review, pause or delete them.