9 · Position copier
Chapter 9

Position copier

Replicate a master account's positions onto your follower accounts, with a size of their own for each, prop-firm protections and limits that stop copying at the right moment.

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By the end of this chapter, you will know how to
  • Set up a master account and its followers
  • Choose how each follower sizes its positions
  • Set up prop-firm protections and discipline limits
  • Check every copier decision in its log

The principle

You trade a master account. Your follower accounts reproduce its positions, each with its own size and its own limits. The copier replicates your own orders between your own accounts: it never copies another trader's positions.

  • Plans: Copier or Complete, and the free trial.
  • Accounts: MetaTrader linked with the master password, cTrader or Rithmic, as master or follower. Crypto accounts are not copied.
  • Mixing platforms: the master and its followers do not have to be on the same platform; a MetaTrader master can, for instance, feed a Rithmic follower.

Set up copying

  1. 1
    Terminal > Copy Trader.
  2. 2
    Add a master account, then choose the account you trade.
  3. 3
    Open the master account's Settings: its protections apply to all its copies.
  4. 4
    Add a follower, then choose one or several accounts.
  5. 5
    Set up each follower, then Save my settings.

An account that is already a master or a follower no longer appears in the choices: an account has only one role in the copier.

Set up a follower

The follower's Copy settings say how this account reproduces the master's positions. They are split into three tabs: Risk, Prop firm and Discipline.

Risk type
Fixed lots: always the same size. Balance multiplier: size proportional to the follower's balance. Lots multiplier: the master's lots multiplied by a coefficient. Fixed % risk: a percentage of the follower's balance, computed from the stop.
Copy Stop Loss, Copy Take Profit
Whether to reuse the master's stop and target.
Copy Pending Orders
Also reproduce pending orders.
Maximum lots
A size cap. A position above it is opened at the maximum minus 0.1 lot.
Hedging Restricted
Forbids opposite positions on the same symbol, for prop firms that refuse hedging.
Restriction window
A window during which the follower opens and closes no position.
Max Loss Daily
Stops copying 0.1% before the maximum daily loss allowed. Trailing makes it follow the balance.

Psychology Management

Max Loss
A maximum loss, as a percentage or a number of losing trades, per session, day or week.
Max Profit
A maximum gain, on the same principle: a day that is made stops.
Max Risk Per Trade
The highest risk accepted for a copied position.
Strategy
None, or Martingale: an initial risk adjusted after each loss or each gain, and reset after a streak.
E.Restriction Management
What the follower does with a position left open during a restriction: Do Nothing, Ignore if SL, Ignore if TP, or Take After Restriction to take it once the restriction lifts.
Priority in Risk Restriction
Which rule wins when several limits overlap.

Protect the master account

The master account's settings apply to all its copies.

Risk Management
Any master position opened without a stop or a target gets both: the stop at the chosen risk (as a percentage of balance), the target at the chosen reward-to-risk ratio.
Propfirms Protection
Turns on the protections below, as you choose: Only Eco.News, Profit Target & Daily Loss, or Everything.
Eco.News Restriction
Closes your positions on the master a chosen number of minutes before and after each high-impact economic release. Followers keep theirs during the window, then follow the master again.
Profit.T / Daily.L
Closes your positions when the profit target is reached, or 0.1% before the maximum daily loss.
Min. Trad.Day Farmer
On days without any trade, opens a 0.01-lot position at 21:30 UTC and closes it after the chosen delay: enough to count a trading day for firms that require a minimum.
Take restricted positions
Replicates on the followers, anyway, the positions blocked by these restrictions.

Pause, replace, disconnect

  • Pausing the master account pauses all its active followers. Start resumes them.
  • Pausing a follower stops it alone, without touching the others.
  • Changing the master account: either delete everything (settings of the master and of its followers), or replace it with another account and keep all settings. The followers then move to the new master. As a safety check, Kara asks you to type the master's login again.
  • Disconnecting a follower erases its settings and stops copying to that account.

Check with the copier log

A follower's Copier log writes, line by line, what the engine sent to that account: symbol, side, lot, price, and the rules that applied. When nothing went out, it says why: an empty list because the master has no more positions, or a copier stopped by a limit.

To be warned when an outage blocks copying (changed password, insufficient margin, stopped terminal), turn on the Copier and accounts topic in your notifications.