Lucid Trading copy trading: what the rules allow and how to copy across your Lucid accounts

Lucid Trading is a futures prop firm that, at the time of writing, allows copying between accounts you own and explicitly permits third-party copier software. That puts it in the easier group of firms to run a multi-account setup with. This guide covers what to confirm in Lucid's rules, which platforms Lucid accounts run on, and how to set up a copier across several of them.

The usual caveat applies. Lucid's rules are Lucid's and they change. Read the current text in their help center before you connect anything; nothing here replaces it.

Does Lucid allow copy trading?

Lucid's published rules allow copying between your own evaluation and funded accounts and allow automation short of high-frequency trading. What they do not allow is copying another trader's fills into your accounts, or running your fills out to other people as a signal service. Read the current wording for three specifics:

• Which of your accounts may be grouped together. Evaluation and funded accounts are treated differently by many firms; check whether Lucid lets them follow the same leader.
• Consistency and drawdown rules per plan. Lucid runs more than one evaluation path, and the plans differ on whether a consistency rule applies. A copier does not change which plan an account is on.
• Anything about opposite positions. Copying is fine; two of your accounts on opposite sides of the market usually is not.

The prop firms that allow trade copying article keeps a cross-firm summary with links to each firm's own page.

Which platforms Lucid accounts run on

Lucid issues accounts on Tradovate and on Rithmic. Which one you have decides how it can be copied:

• Tradovate accounts under one login can use Tradovate's built-in Group Trade, or a copier connected to Tradovate's API. The Group Trade vs a trade copier article covers where the built-in feature stops.
• Rithmic accounts can use Rithmic's own R|Trade Copier, or a copier that connects to Rithmic directly with your login, server location, and system.
• Copilink Standalone connects to both from one Windows or macOS app, so a Lucid Tradovate account and a Lucid Rithmic account can follow the same leader in one profile. See the Tradovate trade copier and Rithmic trade copier pages.

Setting up a copier across Lucid accounts

1. Read the current rules first. Decide which accounts are allowed in the group and which plan each one is on.
2. Connect on the right platform. Tradovate authorizes in your browser, Demo or Live. Rithmic takes the login, location, and exact system Lucid supplied. Copilink keeps credentials in your operating system's secure storage on your own computer.
3. One leader, followers you choose. Enable only the Lucid accounts that may be copied together.
4. Size each follower on its own. Exact quantity for identical accounts, a ratio for different sizes, rounded down to whole contracts.
5. Turn on follower protection. An account that is the wrong size, open while the leader is flat, or on the wrong side beyond your delay gets a flatten request and can be disengaged.
6. Add per-account limits tighter than Lucid's. A daily loss limit per account, and an evaluation goal and evaluation consistency rule on accounts that have one, so a breach stops before the firm's line.
7. Test on a simulation account. One small trade, watch every follower, flatten, confirm at the broker.

What the copier watches, and what stays on you

Copilink Standalone acts on your per-account daily loss, daily profit, and evaluation goal rules and on evaluation consistency rules. It monitors trailing drawdown and funded-account consistency without enforcing them in the current version, so Lucid's own dashboard remains the authority on those. Whether a given set of accounts may be copied together under your Lucid agreement is a question only Lucid's rules answer.

If a Lucid account falls out of step

Each follower's order is accepted, rejected, or filled by the broker on its own. When one Lucid account rejects an order, stop, read the activity log for that account, and bring it back in line before the leader trades again. The point of follower protection is to make that window as short as possible; the point of stopping is to make sure two of your accounts are never on opposite sides of the market.

For the broader operational picture, the how to trade multiple prop firm accounts guide covers sizing, rules, and the daily routine that keeps several funded accounts in sync.