Trade copier FAQ

A local trade copier for Tradovate. It mirrors manually-placed trades from one account to multiple other accounts, at the same prop firm or at different ones.

Syncopy will be a one-time $149 purchase with free updates throughout version 1 — buy it once, it stays yours. There is no subscription and no per-account fee: one licence covers every feature and as many follower accounts as your prop firms allow. Anyone on the waitlist before public launch pays $99 for the same licence.

A free version is planned: two accounts — one leader and one follower — which may sit at two different prop firms, with everything else included, including per-account daily loss caps and the journal. It launches as an open beta and is permanently free afterwards, not a seven-day trial: “beta” describes how finished it is, not how long it is free. It does not exist yet: nothing is downloadable, free or paid.

As many of your own as you like. The licence is tied to you, not to a machine: buy a new laptop and you install Syncopy and paste the same key. There is nothing to deactivate and no activation limit to run into. One thing that is not a licence rule but a technical one: do not run two copies at the same time against the same Tradovate login, because a second session on one login interferes with the market-data connection. Install it anywhere — run one copy per broker login.

The free version comes first, then the paid licence. There is no fixed date: it ships when it is safe to put other people's money through it, not on a calendar. The waitlist is the announcement channel and there is no other.

Not publicly yet. Syncopy is in testing and there is nothing to download for the public. Join the waitlist to hear when the free version opens. Joining before public launch also makes the full licence $99 instead of $149.

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.

The code is written with heavy use of AI coding assistance — Claude Code, specifically. One person builds Syncopy, and that is how the volume gets covered. There is no AI inside the product: no model, no prediction, and nothing that decides anything. The copier watches your fills and mirrors your orders by rules you set, and the same input produces the same output every time. What settles whether it works is not the tooling but the evidence — it runs on the maker's own funded and evaluation accounts every day, and the About page states which parts are proven on real money and which are not.

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

Yes, for as long as you want trades copied. Syncopy runs on your own machine, so it only copies while that machine is on and connected; a VPS is an option if you want it running away from your desk. Bracket stops and targets already on your followers stay at Tradovate while the machine is off. A cloud copier keeps running without your computer, and that is the honest trade-off of running locally.

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.

Bracket stops and targets on your followers are orders at Tradovate, so they keep working while your machine is offline. While you are offline, new leader trades are not copied, and a stop you move on the leader is not mirrored until Syncopy is back. When the connection returns, fills from the last two minutes are copied as normal; older ones are recorded but not sent, and the follower is marked out of sync so you can decide. A rejected follower order is logged with the reason, and the other followers carry on. An entry without a bracket has no stop on the follower until you place one on the leader. Some of this has been seen on real trades and some has only been tested; what Syncopy does when something goes wrong says which is which.

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 five 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 syncopy.app for a version check at startup and once an hour, which we also use to count installations per day, version and country without storing your IP address; to syncopy.app again to download the list of prop firm discount codes shown in the app; and to syncopy.app when you send a problem report yourself, which carries your description, a setup summary and, if you leave it on, your recent logs. There is no analytics, telemetry or crash-reporting library in the application, and the paid licence will be checked on your own machine without contacting our server. 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.

No. Tested in Tradovate's own platform on simulation accounts in October 2026: an order sent to a group with both a stop loss and a take profit attached was refused with the message “Multibracket orders are not supported in Group mode”. Apex's help center says the same for ATM strategies. Group Trade copies plain orders; a stop and a target have to be placed separately, as stop and limit orders. To put a bracket on several Tradovate accounts at once you need a trade copier, or you place it on each account by hand. Syncopy mirrors the bracket to each follower, including when you move the stop or target.

Only for orders without a stop or target. Apex's help center states that Group Trade cannot be used within TradingView, but our own test on simulation accounts in October 2026 found it more specific than that: with two accounts in a Tradovate group, a plain order placed from TradingView reached both accounts, while an order with a stop loss and take profit attached reached only the account it was placed on. Inside Tradovate's own platform, a bracket sent to a group is refused outright. With Syncopy copying the same two accounts, the second account received the order and its stop and target, and dragging them on the TradingView chart moved them on both.

No. Tradovate does sell an API Access add-on at $25 a month, but it requires a live, funded Tradovate brokerage account holding at least $1,000, and prop firm and evaluation accounts are not eligible for it. That route exists for someone automating their own account with a generated API key. Syncopy does not use it: you sign in with your own Tradovate credentials and the application talks to Tradovate from your own machine, the same way the platform itself does. There is no add-on to buy and nothing to subscribe to, and it works on prop firm logins. Figures checked against Tradovate's own support documentation, October 2026.

Apex Trader Funding, MyFundedFutures, Tradeify, Lucid Trading and Phidias are supported for V1. Apex, MyFundedFutures, Tradeify and Phidias have confirmed via their support teams that copying trades between a trader's own accounts is permitted, both same-firm and cross-firm; Lucid's published rules permit trade copiers. Lucid, like Apex and Tradeify, prohibits hedging across accounts: a copier mirrors the leader's direction, but a follower that falls out of step can still end up on the opposite side. 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 list of Tradovate prop firms for the current status of each firm.

It depends on the firm. Most firms that offer Tradovate allow a copier between your own accounts, but Take Profit Trader and Elite Trader Funding only allow copiers on their own approved lists, and Syncopy is not on those. Copying between firms is a separate question with a different answer per firm, and copying another trader is not allowed. The prop firm rules matrix lists each firm's policy with a source. Rules change, so check with your firm before relying on it.

Yes, between your own accounts. Apex support confirmed in writing in May 2026 that trade copiers may be used on Evaluation and Performance Accounts, and between your Apex accounts and your own accounts at other firms, as long as followers trade the same instrument in the same direction. Copying with other traders is forbidden by Apex, and Syncopy is built for one trader's own accounts. See the Apex trade copier guide for the 20-account limit and the Apex rules a copier can break for you.

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.

Yes, on accounts you can log in to at Tradovate. MyFundedFutures' help center says copy trading is allowed on all account types, and its support team confirmed in writing in May 2026 that you may copy between your own accounts there and your own accounts at other firms. Hedging of any kind is prohibited, and the firm owes no resets for copier errors. See the MyFundedFutures trade copier guide for the account limits per plan.

Yes, on Lucid accounts that run through Tradovate; an account set up on Rithmic cannot be reached. Lucid's help center permits trade copiers and makes you responsible for any copier errors. Its rules do not limit copiers to Lucid accounts, but hedging is prohibited, including between firms. See the Lucid trade copier guide for the rest.

Yes. Phidias' rules allow third-party copy trading software, and its support team confirmed in writing in May 2026 that you can copy with other accounts. Fully automated trading is not allowed, so the leader has to be traded by you. Copying between Apex and Phidias has been run on the maker's own accounts. See the Phidias trade copier guide for the account limits.

Tradovate is where version 1 starts — that's where the largest prop firm user base is. Because Syncopy reads the Tradovate account rather than the front end you place orders from, trades entered through TradingView into a Tradovate account are copied like any other fill. A TopstepX connection is planned and belongs to version 1, so it is covered by the same one-time purchase rather than a paid upgrade. Rithmic-direct integration, which would reach NinjaTrader, Quantower and standalone Rithmic users, sits in a later version. No dates on any of it.

Same local-first approach. Syncopy focuses exclusively on Tradovate, uses a one-time payment model 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. It will be a $149 one-time purchase with free updates throughout version 1, no subscription required. Tradecopia uses a monthly subscription model ($49.99 Pro Desktop, $79.99 Pro+ Lite, $149.99 Pro+ as of October 2026). Both are local-first desktop copiers; Syncopy is Tradovate-native (no NinjaTrader dependency) and uses a one-time-purchase pricing model. For a side-by-side of every pay-once option we know of, see one-time payment trade copiers for futures.