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Plain-English, no-hype explainers on how trade copying actually works — from the team building Trepeat.

How to Run Multiple Prop Firm Evaluations at Once

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Running one evaluation is a trading problem. Running four at once is a logistics problem — here's what breaks by hand, and what changes when the orders are repeated.

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Prop Firm Rules on Copy Trading: What's Actually Allowed

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Whether you can repeat your own trades across evaluation and funded accounts is set by the rulebook you agreed to — here's which clauses decide it, and how to read them.

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Copying Between Prop Firm and Personal Accounts

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

The copy mechanics are identical; the context is not — demo servers, rulebooks, account sizes and symbol names all differ between an evaluation and your own account.

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Trade Copier Latency: How Fast Does Copying Need to Be?

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

The copier is rarely the slow part — the follower broker's own execution usually is. Where the delay actually comes from, and when it changes a trade.

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Social Trader Tools Alternative: An Honest Comparison

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Trepeat and Social Trader Tools solve the same problem. A fair side-by-side on pricing, what the premium actually buys, and which of the two suits how you trade.

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Duplikium Alternative: An Honest Comparison

7 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

Duplikium bills per connected account, Trepeat bills in flat monthly tiers. Both models compared honestly, including where each one wins — and what a copier is like to actually live with day to day.

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Local Trade Copier Alternative: Cloud vs Local Copying

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

An alternative to a local, EA-based copier is really a different architecture: nothing to install and no machine to keep alive. The honest comparison.

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Trade Copier Not Copying: The 6 Reasons

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

A trade fired on the source and nothing landed on the follower — here are the six things that actually cause it, in the order worth checking them.

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Trade Copier vs Copy Trading vs Signals: What's the Difference?

3 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

Three things people conflate: a trade copier repeats your own trades across accounts you own, copy trading auto-follows a stranger, and signals are alerts you act on.

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Is Copying Trades Between Your Own Accounts Allowed?

3 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

Worried that replicating your own trades across your own accounts breaks a rule? Mechanically it's just a tool placing your orders — but your broker's terms are the real answer.

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How to Copy Trades Between Two MetaTrader Accounts

29 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

Copying your own trades from one MetaTrader account to another, step by step: connect both, link source → follower, set sizing, optionally remap symbols, and run.

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Copy One Account to Many: Multi-Account Trade Copying

29 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

Fan a single demo-server source account out to several followers — most often prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts — each sized to its own equity and pausable on its own.

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Do You Need an MT4 Plugin to Copy Trades?

29 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

An MT4 copier can be a plugin/EA you install in the terminal, or a cloud service that connects through the broker gateway with nothing to install. Which you need, and why.

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MetaTrader 4 vs 5 for Copying: What Actually Differs

28 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

MetaTrader 4 and 5 both copy fine — for copying, the differences that matter are account mode, symbol naming, and what copies identically. Here's the breakdown.

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Symbol Mapping: Copying Across Brokers with Different Names

28 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

The same instrument is named differently across brokers (EURUSD vs EURUSD.r vs EURUSDm). Here's why that breaks a copy and how symbol remapping fixes it.

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Why Follower Fills Differ from the Source

28 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

A copied trade rarely fills at the exact source price — each follower's broker sets its own. Here's why fills differ and what a copier actually controls.

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Trade Copier vs Expert Advisor (EA): What's the Difference?

27 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

An EA automates a strategy inside one MetaTrader terminal; a trade copier mirrors trades across accounts. They solve different problems — here's how they compare.

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What Is a Trade Copier? How Copying Trades Works

27 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

A trade copier repeats the trades on one account onto one or more others automatically. Here's the source → follower model, what gets copied, and what it doesn't do.

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Position Sizing When Copying Trades: Equity-Ratio vs Fixed Lot

27 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

Copying a trade isn't copy-paste — the lot is scaled to each account. Equity-ratio vs fixed multiplier, rounding, broker minimums and volume caps, with worked examples.

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Cloud vs Local (VPS) Trade Copier: Which Should You Use?

26 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

Where a trade copier runs — your own PC, a rented VPS, or the cloud — decides its uptime, cost and upkeep. Here's how the three compare, and how to pick.

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