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What is TradeSyncer?
The copier I run my own accounts through. What it does, who actually needs it, and who's better off saving the money.
TradeSyncer is the software I run my accounts through. This is what it is and who it's for — no setup steps, no feature dump. If you already know you want it, the setup guide is the next stop.
What it is
You place a trade on one account. TradeSyncer repeats it on every other account you've connected — across different firms, on different platforms, near enough instantly.
Two words there matter. Cloud means it runs on their servers, not your machine — you can shut your laptop and it keeps working. Across different firms is the real reason people pay for it: your Apex accounts and your Lucid accounts sit on completely different plumbing, and a free copier can't bridge them. This can.
Who it's actually for
Being straight with you, because a subscription you don't need is just a leak:
- 1–2 accounts
- You're not the target user
- 2–5 accounts, one firm, one login
- Use Tradovate's free copier
- Only NinjaTrader, 2–3 accounts
- A one-time tool is cheaper
- 5+ accounts across 2+ firms
- This is what it's built for
The threshold is roughly five accounts across at least two firms. Below that, something free or cheaper will do the same job.
The four things it does that free copiers don't
- One It crosses firms Apex, Lucid, MyFundedFutures and Tradeify all run on different underlying platforms. TradeSyncer connects to those platforms rather than to one firm, so one trade can hit accounts at all of them together. Nothing free does this.
- Two Per-account risk limits Each account can have its own daily loss cap. Hit it and that account stops receiving trades while the rest carry on. When you're running twenty accounts, this is the feature that stops one bad session becoming twenty bad sessions.
- Three Different sizes per account Followers can take double, half, or trade the micro contract while your leader trades the E-mini. That's how a $50K eval and a $150K funded account can sit in the same group without the small one taking silly risk.
- Four One-button flatten Close every position in a group instantly. Tradovate's native flatten stops working once grouping is on, so this is a genuine safety feature rather than a convenience.
There's more — a built-in journal covering all accounts, a market-orders-only mode, an economic calendar — but those four are the reasons people actually switch.
What it works with
It connects through platforms, not firms. So the question isn't "does it support my firm", it's "what does my firm run on".
- Platforms
- NinjaTrader, TradingView, Tradovate, Rithmic, ProjectX, Volumetrica, DxFeed
- Apex
- via Rithmic or Tradovate
- MyFundedFutures
- via ProjectX
- Lucid Trading
- via Rithmic
- Tradeify
- via Tradovate
Most Rithmic, Tradovate and ProjectX firms work — Bulenox, Take Profit Trader, TradeDay, Top One and others included.
What it costs
Three monthly tiers, with a free trial, and annual billing discounted. Pricing moves, so treat these as the shape rather than gospel and check the current numbers on their site.
| Plan | Monthly | Connections | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | ~$49 | 2 | One or two firms |
| Pro | ~$99 | 4 | Most multi-firm traders |
| Flex | ~$149 | Unlimited | Large multi-firm operations |
The word that confuses people is connection. It doesn't mean one account — it means one platform login. Ten Apex accounts under a single Tradovate login is one connection. Ten Lucid accounts through Rithmic is another. So two firms, twenty accounts, can sit comfortably on a two-connection plan.
Is it allowed?
At the futures prop firms, copying between accounts you own, using your own strategy, is generally fine — Apex, MyFundedFutures, Tradeify, Lucid, Bulenox, Take Profit Trader, TradeDay and Top One all permit it.
What's banned nearly everywhere: latency arbitrage, coordinating identical trades with other traders, and in some cases copying someone else's signals into a prop account.
Firms outside the futures prop world can be much stricter — some prohibit coordinated execution even across accounts you own yourself. Policies also change. Check your firm's own FAQ before connecting a new account, because this is binary: you're either inside the rules or you're banned.
The honest verdict
It isn't the cheapest copier and it isn't for everyone. But if you're running five or more accounts across more than one firm, it's the one tool that covers the whole spread of platforms cleanly, with risk controls that actually work per account.
If you're on one or two accounts, save your money and come back when it hurts. If you're already juggling accounts across firms and re-entering the same trade ten times a day, you're overdue.
Convinced? The five-minute setup guide gets you running. Want every detail first — features, pricing, best practices, mistakes — the in-depth version covers it.
Get funded with Lucid
A copier is only worth paying for once you're running several accounts. Lucid is one of the firms I scale at — cheap evals, and it connects cleanly through Rithmic.
Enter ABHI at checkout — that's what applies the discount and credits the sale to me. Buy without it and neither happens.
This is my personal experience, not financial advice. Trading futures carries risk, including loss of evaluation fees. Copy trading policies, platform features and pricing change — always confirm the current rules with your prop firm and the current pricing on the provider's own site before relying on anything here.