Cross-Firm Trade Copying: Running the Same Trades Across Apex, Topstep, and Tradeify

Running the same strategy across multiple prop firms simultaneously is the natural next step after mastering single-firm multi-account trading. Cross-firm copying — where one leader account's trades replicate to accounts at Apex, Topstep, Tradeify, and others simultaneously — requires the same core infrastructure but with per-firm rule differentiation in how each account is configured.

Why Cross-Firm Diversification Matters

Concentrating all your funded capital at one prop firm creates several risks:

• Business disruption risk. Prop firms have closed. Payouts have been delayed. A single-firm concentration means your entire operation is exposed to one firm's business health.
• Rule change risk. A firm can change its consistency rule, drawdown structure, or payout terms with limited notice. Diversification across firms means one rule change affects only part of your portfolio.
• Account limit risk. Most firms cap accounts per person (Apex at 20, Topstep at 5, Tradeify at 5). Diversifying across firms allows you to scale well beyond any single firm's limit.

The operational implication: your trade copier needs to work across all your firms simultaneously, from a single leader account.

The Infrastructure Setup

All broker connections run through NinjaTrader 8. Apex, Topstep, and Tradeify all use Tradovate as their execution broker — meaning you're connecting via the NinjaTrader API connection type for all of them. Each account connects independently; there's no session conflict between accounts at different firms.

In Copilink, all connected accounts appear in the follower account selector regardless of which prop firm they're with. The copier works at the NinjaTrader account level, not at the firm level — so Apex Account 1, Topstep Account 1, and Tradeify Account 1 are all just "NinjaTrader accounts" to the copier, each with their own independent configuration.

Per-Firm Configuration Differences

The important part: each firm's accounts need configuration that matches that firm's specific rules. Don't apply a single uniform configuration across all accounts — the rules genuinely differ.

The configuration matrix means:

• Apex followers always have consistency tracking active (30% threshold, intraday drawdown monitoring)
• Topstep funded followers have EOD drawdown monitoring, no consistency tracking
• Tradeify funded followers have EOD drawdown monitoring, no consistency tracking

Handling Firm-Specific Daily Loss Limits

Different firms have different daily loss limits even for similarly-sized accounts. For example, Apex's $100K PA account may have a $2,000 daily loss limit while Tradeify's $100K SELECT account has a $2,500 limit. Configure Copilink's per-account daily loss threshold to 85-90% of each firm's specific limit — not a uniform dollar amount across all accounts.

This means a session where the leader makes a particularly aggressive trade might hit the daily limit on the Apex accounts before the Tradeify accounts. Those accounts auto-flatten and lock; the Tradeify accounts continue. Each account enforces its own firm-specific rules independently.

The Practical Result

With cross-firm copying configured correctly, you trade one account (the leader) normally. Your trades replicate simultaneously to:

• 15 Apex accounts with 30% consistency rule and intraday drawdown monitoring
• 5 Topstep accounts with EOD drawdown monitoring
• 5 Tradeify accounts with EOD drawdown monitoring

Each account enforces its own rules. A breach at one account doesn't affect the others. Payout cycles run independently. The leader just needs to trade well — the infrastructure handles the rest.

Start building your cross-firm setup at copilink.com.