What your firm sees

Trepeat does not hide that a copier is in use, and it cannot tell you whether your prop firm allows one. This page sets out what a firm can see from Trepeat on each platform, so you can check it against your firm's rules before you connect an account.

Check your firm's rules first

Firms differ. Some ban cloud copiers or a VPS outright; others allow copying between your own accounts within limits. Your firm's own rules, or its support team, answer these questions:

• Are third-party trade copiers allowed, and on which accounts — evaluation, funded, or both?
• May trades come from a cloud server, or only from your own device? Is a VPS or a VPN allowed?
• Is there a limit on the total account size you can trade with one strategy across accounts?
• Are opposite positions on different accounts allowed?
• Do you have to declare the accounts you copy between, or connect from a fixed IP address the firm knows in advance?
• Are logins from some countries not allowed?

Trepeat keeps no list of firms' rules and does not advise on whether a setup is allowed — see the Acceptable Use Policy. It copies only between accounts connected under your own Trepeat login, and the Terms require them to be yours.

Where each connection comes from

• MetaTrader 4 and 5. Your broker sees a MetaTrader terminal run by MetaApi, Trepeat's connection provider: a data-centre address, not your own. That terminal signs in when you add the account, signs out after the demo-account check, and signs in again whenever a Running repeater needs the account. It places every copy. Trepeat does not request a fixed IP address for your account.
• cTrader. You sign in on cTrader's own site, from your own browser, and authorise the Trepeat application on the accounts you choose. After that, Trepeat's engine sends each copy through cTrader's Open API, the platform's interface for outside applications, from Amazon Web Services in the United States. We have not confirmed what address, if any, cTrader passes on to your broker. The engine's address is not fixed: it can change whenever the engine is updated.

More on the two routes in How it works.

Every copied trade is labelled

• MetaTrader: the order comment trepeat- followed by eight characters, and the magic number 333.
• cTrader: the label trepeat, and the comment trepeat- followed by eight characters.

The labels stay on every copy. They are how Trepeat recognises its copies, and the reason its automatic closes touch nothing else, so they cannot be switched off. They also mean that a firm looking at your account history can see which trades a copier placed, whatever address they came from.

Your accounts will show matching trades

A copy usually opens on each follower account within seconds of the source fill, on the same market and in the same direction, and closes when the source position closes. The size can differ, depending on the repeater's settings. A firm that compares your accounts sees that pattern: it is what copying looks like, and it is how firms apply their limits on copying between accounts.

What Trepeat does not do

• It does not send copies through proxies or other people's connections to change where they appear to come from.
• It does not add random delays to make copies look manual.
• It does not remove, change or hide the labels.
• It does not copy between different people's accounts: every account must be connected under your own Trepeat login, and the Terms require them to be yours.

Hiding a copier from a firm that does not allow one would break that firm's rules, and the Acceptable Use Policy forbids using Trepeat to get round them.

If your firm needs a fixed IP address

Some firms allow a VPS or a remote server only from a fixed address you declare to them in advance. Trepeat does not offer a fixed address per account today, on either platform. If your firm requires one, ask it before connecting that account.