Trade copier for Lucid Trading

What Lucid's rules say about copiers

Lucid's help center puts it in three lines under automated strategies: trade copiers are permitted, all automated activity must comply with Lucid's rules, and traders are fully responsible for any software errors, malfunctions or unintended outcomes (source).

That is more permissive than several firms, which restrict automation or limit copying to accounts under one firm. It also leaves no room for “the copier did it”. If a copier puts the wrong position on a Lucid account, the consequences land on that account the same way a mistake of your own would.

Hedging: the rule a copier can break without you noticing

Lucid prohibits hedging in every form it lists, including across your own accounts, between different users' accounts, and between different firms or funded platforms (source). The help center spells out what counts:

• Same contract, opposite sides, separate accounts. Long NQ in one account, short NQ in another.
• Mini against micro, separate accounts. Long the mini in one account and short the micro of the same contract in another is prohibited too.
• Correlated contracts, separate accounts. Long ES in one account and short NQ in another. Lucid groups correlated assets by equities, metals, energies and so on.

A flagged account is reset to the previous day's balance without resetting the remaining drawdown; repeated offences breach all involved accounts and can end in a permanent restriction.

Copying a trade in the same direction is not hedging. The risk is a copier that gets out of step: a close that reaches the leader but not a follower, a partial fill handled differently on one account, a follower that flips through zero. Any of those can leave one account long and another short. Between a Lucid account and an account elsewhere, that is precisely the cross-firm case the rule names, and under the copier rule it is yours to answer for.

So the question to ask of any copier is not only how it copies, but what it shows you when a follower disagrees with the leader, and how quickly you would notice.

Two Lucid rules that interact with copying

News trading on LucidDaily

Trading red-folder news on a LucidDaily account is a hard breach. Flex, Pro and Direct allow news trading (source). A copier copies the trade regardless of the plan the follower is on, so a LucidDaily follower in the copy group on a news day breaches even when the leader's plan allows the trade. Either keep Daily accounts out of the copy group on those days, or do not use them as followers.

Thirty days without a trade

Accounts that are not traded for 30 calendar days may be treated as abandoned and permanently deleted (source). A follower you have paused, for whatever reason, stops trading with it. If you take a Lucid account out of the copy for a while, keep an eye on the date.

How many Lucid accounts you can run

Up to 5 active funded accounts and up to 10 active evaluation accounts per household, with a combined limit of 10 (source). In practice a Lucid-only setup tops out at five funded accounts, which is one reason traders combine Lucid with other firms — and why the cross-firm hedging rule above matters as much as it does.

Which Lucid accounts a Tradovate copier can reach

Lucid runs on two data providers. Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TradingView are its CQG platforms; Quantower, Sierra Chart, ATAS and several others are Rithmic (source). A Tradovate-based copier can only work with Lucid accounts on CQG. An account set up on Rithmic is out of its reach, so check which one yours is before planning a setup around it.

For every other firm's policy on copiers, automation and cross-firm copying, with a source and a date on each row, see the prop firm rules matrix.