Connecting a TradeLocker account

TradeLocker connects with the login you use on TradeLocker's own login page: a server name, your email and your password. There is no separate key to create. Currently demo accounts only, as on the other platforms.

What you enter

• Server. The server name your broker or firm gave you, as it appears on TradeLocker's login page. It is not the account number.
• Email. The email your broker or firm registered you with.
• Password. The password you sign in to TradeLocker with. A TradeLocker login made with Google or Apple has no password to enter here.

Trepeat signs in with these, then lists the trading accounts on that login so you can choose which to add. Your TradeLocker password is stored encrypted, the same way Trepeat already keeps MetaTrader logins, and is used only to reconnect the account.

One login, several accounts

One TradeLocker login can cover several trading accounts, for example an evaluation and the funded account that follows it. After you sign in, tick the ones to add. Each one you add counts as one account towards your paid accounts, exactly as a MetaTrader account does. Accounts under a different login or server are added by running Add account again with that login.

Accounts you already have are listed as Already linked and cannot be added twice.

Demo accounts only

Trepeat currently connects demo accounts, and a live account on the login is shown greyed out and cannot be added. A repeater needs two accounts, one to copy from and one to copy to, so sign in with a login that holds two demo or prop-firm accounts, or add two logins one after the other.

Prop-firm accounts are supported on the same terms as anywhere else: if the firm issues the account as a TradeLocker demo account, Trepeat connects it, subject to the firm's own rules on copying. What it cannot connect is a challenge placed on a live account. You are told which you have on the account-picker screen, before the account is added, so check the account type rather than the “funded” label.

When a broker or firm has switched the API off

Trepeat talks to TradeLocker through its public interface for outside applications. Some brokers and firms switch that interface off for their accounts. If yours has, the sign-in is refused and Trepeat cannot connect the account. Your broker or firm can tell you whether it is on. Some accounts are also not offered for a reason the picker names, such as trading being disabled on the account.

How quickly a TradeLocker source copies

TradeLocker pushes each trade on a source account to Trepeat over a live stream, so a copy does not wait for a timer. In our tests the delay was typically under a tenth of a second. A TradeLocker follower is confirmed on the same stream. Each follower's broker still sets its own execution time and price.

Symbol names

TradeLocker brokers often add an ending to an instrument's name, such as a .PRO on an index. Each account's symbol list is read when you add it, so the remapping settings can suggest the matching name from the follower's own list. See Symbol allowlist and remapping.

Partial closes

Not every TradeLocker broker lets an account close part of a position. Where a follower's account does not, a partial close on the source is refused on that follower: its copy stays open at its full size until the source closes the rest, and the refusal shows as a failed copy with the reason. MetaTrader and cTrader followers always repeat a partial close. Whether your broker allows it is the broker's setting, per account.

Hedging and netting

TradeLocker does not report whether an account hedges or nets, so Trepeat cannot show a Netting badge on a TradeLocker account, or warn when a copy is about to stack on a symbol the follower already holds, as it does for MetaTrader and cTrader. Your broker can tell you which mode an account uses.

When TradeLocker refuses the sign-in

If TradeLocker stops accepting the sign-in, for example because you changed your password, the account says TradeLocker needs your password again, with a Re-enter password button. The server and email are already known. Entering it again restores the account; nothing needs rebuilding and your repeaters keep their settings. What each status means is covered in Account statuses.

Price and the free trial

A TradeLocker account costs the same as any other account, and TradeLocker is in the free trial alongside cTrader. TradeLocker accounts have no connection allowance, unlike MetaTrader. See Pricing and the free trial.