User guide
Complete the first setup safely, find the exact visible status you are seeing, or open a focused guide for connections, copying, protection, history, data, and updates.
Start here
Install and sign in
Choose the correct desktop package, validate access, and confirm the licensed device.
02Connect a broker
Authorize Tradovate or connect Rithmic, then confirm the intended accounts and market data.
03Build and test a profile
Choose one leader, add followers, calculate whole-contract sizing, and begin in simulation while flat.
Popular tasks
Profiles and sizing
A follower profile saves one leader, its followers, sizing, exact symbol scope, Cross Order choices, and follower-protection policy. Only one profile is active at a time.
Dashboard and statuses
Use global badges together. Profile status tells you whether new leader activity can be accepted; Live P&L and risk status tell you whether P&L-based protection has dependable inputs.
Follower protection
Follower protection compares a follower's observed net position with the whole-contract position expected from the leader and ratio. It can request a flatten and optionally disengage the follower after a mismatch remains past its delay.
Account risk limits
Copilink risk rules use current account P&L and saved safety state to block new exposure and request close-out when an enabled actionable threshold is reached. Broker and prop-firm limits remain separate.
Troubleshooting
Start with the visible status, make the smallest safe check, and verify the broker whenever positions or working orders may be affected.
Find a guide by task
Start here
- Install and sign in
Install the production package for your computer, sign in with your Copilink account, and confirm the app recognizes your plan and device before connecting a broker.
Connect
- Connect Tradovate
Tradovate uses a browser authorization flow. Demo and Live are separate environments, so choose the environment that contains the accounts you intend to use.
- Connect Rithmic
A Rithmic connection uses a username, password, server location, and the exact system returned for that login.
Copy trades
- Profiles and sizing
A follower profile saves one leader, its followers, sizing, exact symbol scope, Cross Order choices, and follower-protection policy. Only one profile is active at a time.
Protect accounts
- Follower protection
Follower protection compares a follower's observed net position with the whole-contract position expected from the leader and ratio. It can request a flatten and optionally disengage the follower after a mismatch remains past its delay.
- Account risk limits
Copilink risk rules use current account P&L and saved safety state to block new exposure and request close-out when an enabled actionable threshold is reached. Broker and prop-firm limits remain separate.
Review
- Dashboard and statuses
Use global badges together. Profile status tells you whether new leader activity can be accepted; Live P&L and risk status tell you whether P&L-based protection has dependable inputs.
- Trade log and web journal
The desktop Trade log reconstructs sessions from order and fill activity Copilink received and stored. Cloud sync can link those local sessions to web trade, session, journal, and analytics views without sitting in the live copying path.
Manage Copilink
- Account, license, and support
Account & License shows the identity and access supplied by Copilink's account service. Help & Support sends a written request and attaches diagnostics only with explicit consent.
- Settings, data, and backups
Settings controls preferences, risk and history time zones, Live P&L, optional cloud sync, local data, credential-free backups, and update behavior.
- App updates
Copilink checks for updates automatically, can download a package in the background, and installs a staged update only after restart. An active profile must be disabled before the update restart.
Get help
- Troubleshooting
Start with the visible status, make the smallest safe check, and verify the broker whenever positions or working orders may be affected.
- Safety and limitations
Copilink monitors account state and sends broker requests, but connections, fills, broker acceptance, market data, and events the app never receives remain outside its control.
- Glossary
Use these definitions to match Copilink labels with the account, copying, protection, and history behavior they describe.