How to trade multiple prop firm accounts at once

A trade copier repeats the orders you place on one account, the leader, on your other evaluation and funded accounts, the followers, in the same direction, within a fraction of a second. Each follower gets its own size. Before you start, check two things at every firm: how many accounts it lets you hold, and whether it allows copying between your own accounts.

Copilink Standalone does this across firms: it signs in to as many Tradovate and Rithmic logins as you hold and copies one leader to all of them, on Windows or macOS.

I run 5 to 10 prop accounts this way, mostly at Lucid Trading, FundedNext Futures, Tradeify, Apex and The Legends Trading, and I place every trade on TradingView.

The short version:

1. Check each firm's account cap and copying rule (table below).
2. Connect every login. One login holds all your accounts at that firm.
3. Pick a leader and give each follower a ratio of 1.0 or higher.
4. Place one micro contract trade and close it to check every follower copies, then trade as normal.

My setup

• Leader: I place every trade on TradingView. When I'm running evaluations, the leader is the account with the highest profit target. That way the followers reach their goals first and risk management flattens them, while the leader keeps running.
• Followers: evaluations and funded accounts in the same profile, at every firm I trade, Tradovate and Rithmic together. I copy across all of them without issues.
• Sizing: a multiple of the account size, 1.0 for a 50K and 3.0 for a 150K, with MNQ or NQ depending on the account. I keep those ratios whatever room each account has left: it's easier to manage, and my accounts usually sit at similar balances for their size.
• All accounts. I mostly trade all accounts on every trade.
• Settings: follower protection, stop-loss sync, risk limits (evaluation goals, not daily loss limits) and cross-order mapping are all on. I don't use daily loss limits. Stop-loss sync is the one I'd miss most: after a partial exit, it resizes the stop on every follower, so I don't cancel and replace stops by hand.
• Machine: my own PC, not a VPS. It's there and easy to watch. If my internet drops, I wait for it to come back, or manage the trade from my phone if it's urgent.

How many prop firm accounts can you have?

Most futures firms cap funded accounts per person or household; evaluations are often uncapped or capped separately. From Copilink's prop firm rule files, checked 20 October 2026:

Firm	Account cap	Copying between your own accounts	Copilink connects via
Apex Trader Funding	20 active funded (PA) accounts per household; evaluations uncapped	Allowed: place the trade in one account, the others replicate it	Tradovate, Rithmic
Lucid Trading	10 evaluation and funded combined, at most 5 funded	Allowed	Tradovate, Rithmic
Tradeify	5 funded per household, plus up to 3 Select 300K V2	Your own accounts, same direction; a flat leader with open followers counts as hedging	Tradovate, Rithmic
FundedNext Futures	Challenges up to $750,000 combined; 5 active funded	Allowed, including with accounts at other firms if the identity matches	Tradovate
MyFundedFutures	10 evaluations; up to 5 sim-funded (3 with any 100K or 150K, fewer on Builder plans)	Allowed across all account types	Tradovate
TradeDay	10 at a time: at most 5 Funded Sim and 5 Funded Live; all on one broker	Evaluation with Funded Sim; Funded Live only with Funded Live	Tradovate or Rithmic, not both
Top One Futures	5 Elite Daily V2, evaluation and funded combined, per household	Only between accounts of the same type and size; trades must start on Top One	Tradovate
E8 Futures	Challenges uncapped; 3 E8 Zero Performance per household	Allowed	Tradovate
BluSky Trading	Evaluations uncapped; 3 funded at a time; no Sim Funded trading while Live	Allowed in every stage	Tradovate, Rithmic
Boxcar	Evaluations uncapped; 5 funded	Allowed across your own evaluation and sim-funded accounts	Rithmic
DayTraders.com	5 EOD and 5 Pro EOD; up to 15 funded	Third-party copiers at your own risk	Rithmic
Alpha Futures	5 Qualified (3 with an Advanced account)	Allowed	Not supported
Topstep	5 Express Funded	TopstepX's built-in copier only (not on Live Funded)	Not supported (TopstepX)
Earn2Trade	3 LiveSim, or 2 LiveSim and 1 live	Copiers not allowed	n/a

Copilink has an affiliate relationship with Boxcar. Limits change and depend on the plan and purchase date. Each firm's page in the prop firm directory has its current rules.

Can you copy trade across multiple prop firm accounts?

Usually yes, between accounts you own and control, with conditions:

• Same direction, same timing. Long on one account and short on another in the same or a correlated product counts as hedging at firms such as Apex, Tradeify and FundedNext. See why reverse copying fails.
• Your accounts only. Copying someone else's trades or a signal service is a different thing, and firms such as E8 prohibit signal services.
• Some firms set extra conditions. Top One copies only between accounts of the same type and size, and TradeDay keeps Funded Live separate from evaluations and Funded Sim.
• Some ban copiers outright. Earn2Trade prohibits them in every program.

Apex's user agreement says copied accounts must exactly mirror the orders placed in the account you trade and may not differ in any way. I read that as direction and timing, not size: you can't trade one size on accounts of different sizes, so the size follows the account. Read your own agreement, and see how prop firms detect copy trading for what gets accounts flagged.

One login per firm, many accounts

A prop firm puts all your evaluation and funded accounts on one broker under one login. Only an account that moves to live funds gets a new login. So you connect once per firm, not once per account, and every account on that login appears. If you hold both Tradovate and Rithmic accounts at one firm, that's one login per broker.

The catch is NinjaTrader. It allows only one Rithmic connection at a time, so Copilink for NinjaTrader 8 can copy across your Tradovate logins and one Rithmic firm, but not two Rithmic firms at once. See how to connect multiple Rithmic accounts in NinjaTrader. Copilink Standalone connects each Rithmic and Tradovate login directly, as many as you have, so it copies Rithmic accounts without NinjaTrader's limit.

How to trade multiple accounts at once without a copier

It's possible, but it breaks down quickly:

• Manual entry. You click each account in turn. By the third window the price has moved, and one missed stop can breach that account.
• Platform tools. Tradovate's Group Trade places one order across accounts under the same login, but can't include accounts from another login or Rithmic. Rithmic's R|Trade Copier copies between Rithmic accounts when your firm enables it. The Tradovate trade copier page compares Group Trade with a full copier.

To trade multiple accounts simultaneously across firms, you need a trade copier built for prop firm accounts that connects to each firm's login.

How to set up a trade copier for prop firm accounts

To copy trade multiple accounts, connect every login, choose one leader and give each follower its own ratio:

1. Pick the product that matches your accounts. Tradovate or Rithmic accounts, including on a Mac: Copilink Standalone. Accounts already inside NinjaTrader 8 on Windows: Copilink for NinjaTrader 8. They're separate products and licences.
2. Connect every login. In Standalone, add each firm's Tradovate or Rithmic login; one profile can mix both brokers and several firms.
3. Choose the leader. The account you trade.
4. Set each follower's ratio and contract. See sizing below. Cross maps a mini to a micro, such as NQ to MNQ.
5. Set each account's risk rules. "Apply to similar accounts" copies one account's settings to accounts you pick with a similar name, such as the others at the same firm.
6. Start flat, then place one micro contract trade and close it. Check every follower's orders at the broker. Positions already open when you start the profile aren't copied.

Copying one leader to accounts at different firms

To copy trade multiple prop firms at once, put the leader at one firm and the followers at the others, as long as every firm allows it. I copy across all the firms I trade, Apex accounts included. Some firms add conditions: FundedNext allows cross-firm copying if the identity on both accounts matches, and Top One requires the trade to start on a Top One account. Each firm keeps its own drawdown, consistency and payout rules, so set every follower up for its own firm.

Size and risk every follower on its own

A ratio multiplies the leader's quantity, and Copilink rounds down to whole contracts. Behind a 50K leader trading 2 MNQ:

• A 50K follower at 1.0 trades 2 MNQ.
• A 150K follower at 3.0 trades 6 MNQ.
• A follower at 0.5 trades 1 MNQ, but when the leader trades 1 MNQ it gets 0: no order, and it's out of step with the leader.

So keep ratios at 1.0 or higher. To trade a smaller account smaller, map it to the micro contract with Cross instead of using a fractional ratio.

Cross swaps the contract without adjusting for value: 1 ES at 1.0 copies as 1 MES. If a 100K leader trades 2 ES, a 25K follower mapped to MES at 2.5 trades 5 MES, the same share of its account (1 ES gives 2 MES after rounding). Stop-loss sync also needs every follower at 1.0 or higher and a stop placed as its own order, not a bracket. See NQ to MNQ copy sizing.

If one account has much less room than the rest, you can size it to its remaining cushion instead:

Contracts = (remaining cushion × risk %) ÷ (stop in ticks × tick value)

The futures position size calculator works it out per account. Know how each floor moves: see intraday vs EOD trailing drawdown.

Limits on every account

Copilink acts on some limits and only tracks others: a limit that acts sends a flatten request to the broker, and a tracked-only figure never closes an account.

Rule	Copilink Standalone	Copilink for NinjaTrader 8 Risk edition
Daily loss and daily profit limits per account	Acts (flatten request)	Acts
Evaluation goal	Acts	Acts
Consistency	Evaluation acts; funded is tracked only	Acts (flattens at the consistency target, when on)
Trailing drawdown	Tracked only (Trail Left)	Tracked only (DD Left, intraday)
Follower protection	Yes	Yes

A limit on the leader closes the leader and every enabled follower. That's why, with evaluations, I lead with the account that has the highest profit target: the followers reach their goals first and get flattened, and the leader keeps running. To see each account's room, I watch the DDD column in Standalone for my Tradovate accounts: it's Tradovate's own drawdown distance, calculated from the broker's trailing drawdown threshold. Most Tradovate prop logins don't give Copilink live prices, so connect one Rithmic account to make P&L limits react on time. The full rules are on Standalone risk controls.

When something goes wrong

• Follower protection flattens a follower that's at the wrong size, still open while the leader is flat, or on the opposite side, after a delay you set.
• A disconnect stops copying to that account (a leader disconnect pauses the whole profile), and leader trades made during the gap aren't replayed. Check every follower at the broker before the leader trades again.
• Big news moves. When high-impact news moves the market hard, stops can slip a lot, and a follower's copy of a limit order can miss the leader's price or not fill at all. In my experience, that's where the worst copying problems come from.
• A flatten is a request to the broker. Confirm the account is flat there.

In Copilink's data, half of follower copies fill within about 100 ms of the leader's fill, and 9 in 10 within about 400 ms; regional averages are about 120 ms in North America and 200 ms in Europe. A copied trade goes to about 3 followers on average. See what a VPS speeds up.

Kill switch and daily routine

Test your kill switch before you rely on it: open one micro contract on several accounts, press Flatten All, and check at the broker that every account is flat with no working orders left. In Standalone, Flatten All also turns the profile off until you turn it back on.

My day is short: on the charts at 9:40 a.m. New York time, trading from 9:50, done by 11:10 at the latest. I don't trade on days without medium or high impact news, or Wednesday to Friday in NFP weeks. Before the session, check every connection is live and nothing is open from yesterday. After it, check every account is flat at the broker, not just in the copier.

When an evaluation turns into a funded account

• Same login. The funded account appears under the login you already connected. Only a live-funded account comes with a new login.
• Compare the rules. The daily loss limit, drawdown type and consistency rule can change between the evaluation and the funded account, so read the funded rules before you buy.
• Same ratio. I keep the ratio I used on the evaluation.

FAQ

How do I trade multiple prop firm accounts at the same time?
Use a trade copier: trade one leader account and the copier places matching orders on each follower, sized by ratio. Check that each firm allows copying between your own accounts first.

How many prop firm accounts can I have?
It depends on the firm. Apex allows 20 active funded accounts per household; most others allow 3 to 5 funded accounts (DayTraders.com up to 15), with evaluations often uncapped. See the table above.

How do I copy trade multiple prop firms at once?
Put the leader at one firm and the followers at the others, if every firm involved allows it. Some add conditions, such as FundedNext's matching identity rule. Copilink Standalone copies one leader across Tradovate and Rithmic accounts at several firms.

Can I copy trades between Tradovate and Rithmic accounts?
Yes, with Copilink Standalone. One profile can have a Tradovate leader and Rithmic followers, or the other way round.

How many accounts can Copilink copy to?
Copilink Standalone has no product limit on connected accounts, followers or profiles. Broker and API limits, your computer, and one active profile at a time still apply.

Do followers get the same fills as the leader?
No. Every follower order is placed and filled separately by its broker, so prices and timing can differ, especially in fast markets.

How do I protect a copy trading setup from disconnects and crashes?
Use a copier that pauses when an account disconnects instead of trading blind, and after any reconnect check every account's positions and orders at the broker before you resume. Missed leader trades aren't replayed.