Trade copier FAQ

A local trade copier for Tradovate. It mirrors manually-placed trades from one account to multiple other accounts under the same prop firm login.

Core is a one-time $99 purchase with lifetime updates — buy it once, it stays yours. Optional Pro and Elite subscription tiers add advanced features post-launch. If you ever cancel a subscription, you fall back to Core — not to nothing. Pro and Elite pricing and feature list announced closer to release.

When 1,000 traders are on the waitlist. No fixed date — the threshold is a signal of real demand before shipping.

Not at launch. Syncopy is a Windows desktop application for V1, which is where the large majority of futures prop firm traders run their platforms. A macOS version is planned as a post-launch follow-up rather than a V1 feature.

No. It runs entirely on your own machine, with a direct connection to Tradovate. No data passes through Syncopy servers.

A local copier runs on your own computer and connects directly to the broker. A cloud copier runs on a third-party server; the service holds your broker connection and you access it through a web or mobile interface. Cloud copiers can sit physically close to broker infrastructure for very low absolute latency, but rely on shared-server resources and the cloud provider being up. Local copiers are bound to your own internet quality but offer predictable latency (no multi-tenant load), no third-party service in the execution path, and your account data stays on your machine. Reliability flips: cloud keeps running if your machine goes down; local keeps running if the cloud provider has an outage. Different trade-offs, neither strictly better. For a longer explainer, see local desktop trade copiers for futures.

Your broker connection runs directly between your machine and Tradovate — there is no Syncopy server in the middle of your trading. Credentials are stored encrypted on your own computer using Windows DPAPI, and your trades, positions, balances and logs stay in a local database on disk. The application makes four kinds of outbound connection: to Tradovate itself; to Cloudflare's public DNS resolver at 1.1.1.1, which resolves Tradovate's hostname before each websocket connect and therefore sees your IP address and which hostname is being resolved; to updates.syncopy.app for a version check at startup and once an hour; and to events.syncopy.app to download a public economic-calendar file. There is no analytics, telemetry or crash-reporting library in the application. Licence validation against our server will be added when the paid version ships. Full detail on the privacy page.

No. Syncopy is a standalone Windows application. NinjaTrader-based copiers like Replikanto and Copilink require NT8 as a host platform. Syncopy connects directly to Tradovate.

Yes — for manual trading. When you place orders through TradingView's broker integration to your Tradovate account, those trades show up in Tradovate, and Syncopy copies them to your followers like any other trade. Pine Script webhook automation (where a TradingView strategy auto-fires trades) is on the roadmap for after V1.

Yes. A leader trading NQ can drive followers on MNQ, and the other way round. Syncopy maps the leader's instrument onto each follower's size class — mini or micro — and scales the contract count on top of that follower's own multiplier. This matters when your accounts are not the same size: a 25k evaluation account usually cannot carry the contract count a funded 150k account can. It works across firms too, so an Apex leader can drive a MyFundedFutures follower on a different contract.

Not today, and it's on the roadmap. Syncopy currently mirrors trades you place yourself; it does not generate or execute trading decisions of its own. Running a strategy through Syncopy is planned for after V1. Worth knowing either way: several futures prop firms, including Apex Trader Funding and Take Profit Trader, restrict or prohibit fully automated trading on their accounts, so an automated setup generally belongs on your own broker account rather than a funded one. The rules are set by each firm and change over time — check your firm's current agreement before relying on any particular setup.

Tradovate's Group Trade copies orders between accounts that share the same brokerage login, so it can't mirror trades across accounts at different prop firms. It also scales position size by a fixed quantity ratio only — there's no per-account daily loss cap or per-follower risk control. Syncopy copies across firms (an Apex leader driving MyFundedFutures followers, for example) and gives each follower its own multiplier and daily loss cap. If all your accounts sit under one firm and you only need quantity scaling, Group Trade is a perfectly good free option — Syncopy is built for multi-firm setups and per-account risk management. For a step-by-step walkthrough of both, see how to copy trades on Tradovate.

Apex Trader Funding, MyFundedFutures, Tradeify, and Lucid Trading are supported for V1 — all four have confirmed via their support teams that copying trades between a trader's own accounts is permitted, both same-firm and cross-firm. Lucid additionally prohibits hedging across accounts, which Syncopy satisfies automatically since it mirrors direction. Take Profit Trader is not supported at launch: TPT maintains a formal approved-copier list and cross-firm copying with TPT is not permitted; Syncopy will request approval for the TPT list after V1 ships. See the prop firm rules matrix for the current status of each firm.

Yes, confirmed compatible with Apex's policy for accounts under the same user-ID. Cross-trader copying is not supported by design — Apex prohibits this, and Syncopy is built for single-trader multi-account use. See the Apex trade copier guide for full criteria specific to Apex's 20-account scaling and intraday trailing drawdown.

Yes. Tradeify's support team confirmed in May 2026 that copying trades between your own prop firm accounts is allowed, both same-firm (between your own Tradeify accounts) and cross-firm (between Tradeify and your accounts at other prop firms). Tradeify accounts route through Tradovate. See the Tradeify trade copier guide for tier-specific criteria and consistency-rule considerations.

Tradovate is the V1 focus — that's where the largest prop firm user base is. After V1 ships and stabilizes, the planned expansion order is: TradingView webhooks as a trade source, followed by Rithmic-direct integration to reach NinjaTrader, Quantower, and standalone Rithmic users. Additional platforms considered based on user demand.

Same local-first approach. Syncopy focuses exclusively on Tradovate, uses a one-time payment model for the Core version instead of a monthly subscription, and ships as a standalone desktop application — no NinjaTrader or other platform dependency.

Tradesyncer is cloud-based — your Tradovate connection runs on their servers, and you access it via web or mobile. Syncopy runs entirely on your own machine, with a direct WebSocket to Tradovate. Different trade-offs: cloud means access anywhere; local means no third-party service in your trade execution path.

Syncopy. Core is a $99 one-time purchase with lifetime updates, no subscription required. Tradecopia uses a monthly subscription model ($49.99 Pro Desktop, $79.99 Pro+ Lite, $149.99 Pro+ as of July 2026). Both are local-first desktop copiers; Syncopy is Tradovate-native (no NinjaTrader dependency) and uses a one-time-purchase pricing model for the base version. For a side-by-side of every pay-once option we know of, see one-time payment trade copiers for futures.