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Trade-copying guides
Plain-English, no-hype explainers on how trade copying actually works, from the team building Trepeat.
Start here · 12
What a Trade Copier Costs: Three Ways to Pay, Worked Out
16 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
What Trepeat's price includes, what a trade copier costs a month for 2, 5 and 10 accounts each way it bills, and what a lower price can leave out.
Read guideHow to Choose a Trade Copier: 9 Questions to Ask
14 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
There is no single best trade copier. Nine questions, on where it runs, what it copies, how it fails and how it bills, pick the one that fits your accounts.
Read guideFree Trade Copiers: What They Cost You Instead
14 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Free trade copiers exist, mostly as Expert Advisors on one computer. What they cost in other ways, when free stops being enough, and what Trepeat costs.
Read guideTrade Copier for Mac and Phone: No Windows Needed
14 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Most copiers run inside a Windows terminal. A cloud copier installs nothing, so you can set it up on a Mac and Run or Stop it from a phone browser.
Read guideCopier, Duplicator, Replicator: One Tool, Five Names
28 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Copier, duplicator, replicator, account copier: the market has five words for one category of software. Here is what they all mean, what they do not, and what actually differs between products.
Read guideTrade 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.
Read guideHow 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.
Read guideMT4 Copier Plug-In: Do You Need One to Copy Trades?
29 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
An MT4 copier can be a plug-in or EA you install in the terminal, or a cloud copier with nothing to install that connects from hosted servers. Which you need, and why.
Read guideMetaTrader 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.
Read guideTrade 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 repeats trades across accounts. They solve different problems, and here's how they compare.
Read guideWhat 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.
Read guideCloud 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.
Read guideProp-firm accounts · 8
Consistency Rule in Evaluations: How It Is Measured
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Best day divided by total profit sounds simple. Ten made-up days, read three ways, show why the share can pass 100% and why a losing day raises it.
Read guideDaily Loss Limit vs Trailing Drawdown, Explained
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
One trading day, worked through five readings of balance, equity and peak, to show why the same trades can sit inside one limit and past another.
Read guideHow Many Prop Firm Accounts Can You Have?
30 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Most firms in our directory limit the total capital you can hold, not the number of accounts. The limits, what counts toward them, and where copying fits.
Read guideYour Prop Firm Has Its Own Trade Copier: When You Still Need Another
14 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Some prop firms now build a free copier into their dashboard. When it is all you need, and when accounts at other firms or brokers call for an independent one.
Read guideHow 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.
Read guideProp Firm Rules on Copy Trading: What's Actually Allowed
7 Aug 2026 · 6 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.
Read guideCopying 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.
Read guideIs 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.
Read guideHow copying behaves · 13
How to Test a Trade Copier on Demo Accounts, Step by Step
4 Nov 2026 · 8 min read
Eight small trades and a record sheet, source account against follower: fills, sizes, a partial close, a stop and timing, and how to tell a pricing gap from a real fault.
Read guideTrade Copier Checklist: 12 Things to Test on a Demo Before You Commit
24 Oct 2026 · 11 min read
Twelve checks to run on two demo accounts before you commit to a trade copier: sizing, symbol names, partial closes, Stop and Flatten, failures and speed, with Trepeat's answer to each.
Read guideComponents of a Copy Trading Platform: Data Flow and Speed
16 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Account connections, the engine, sizing, the order tag and alerts: the five parts of a trade copier, the path one fill takes through them, and where its time goes.
Read guideCopy Between cTrader and MetaTrader on Different Computers
14 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
A copier installed on your PC needs cTrader and MetaTrader on that one PC. A cloud copier connects to each account at its broker, so your machines do not matter.
Read guideCopying Between MT4, MT5 and cTrader: What Actually Changes
28 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
Copying runs in every direction across MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader. The order action is the easy part. Symbol names, volume steps and account mode are where it goes wrong.
Read guideNetting vs Hedging Accounts: What Changes When You Copy Trades
28 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
The first copy on a symbol lands fine either way. The second is where a netting follower account stops matching the source. Here's why, and what to do about it.
Read guideCan You Copy Trades and Still Place Your Own?
28 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
You can trade by hand on an account that is also a follower. Here is the mechanism that makes that safe, and how proportional sizing works when the two accounts are different sizes.
Read guideTrade Copier Latency: How Fast Does Copying Need to Be?
7 Aug 2026 · 6 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.
Read guideTrade 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.
Read guideCopy 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, with equity ratio scaling each to its own equity and each pausable on its own.
Read guideSymbol Mapping: Copying Across Brokers with Different Names
28 Jun 2026 · 6 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.
Read guideWhy Follower Fills Differ from the Source
28 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
A copied trade rarely fills at the exact source price, because each follower's broker sets its own. Here's why fills differ and what a copier actually controls.
Read guidePosition Sizing When Copying Trades: Equity-Ratio vs Fixed Lot
27 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
Copying a trade isn't copy-paste, because the lot is scaled to each account. Equity-ratio vs fixed multiplier, rounding, broker minimums and volume caps, with worked examples.
Read guideAlternatives to other copiers · 9
MetaCopier Alternative: An Honest Comparison
16 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
For your own MetaTrader and cTrader demo, evaluation and funded accounts: one price per account with journal, alerts and live P&L per repeater included, and where MetaCopier's daily billing and longer platform list fit better.
Read guideTradecopia Alternative: For MT4, MT5 and cTrader, Not Futures
14 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Trepeat repeats your own trades across MT4, MT5 and cTrader accounts, each sized its own way, and where Tradecopia, a futures copier, fits instead.
Read guidecTrader Copy Alternative: Copy Between Your Own cTrader Accounts
28 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Trepeat repeats your trades across your own cTrader and MetaTrader accounts, sized per account, and where cTrader Copy, a marketplace for backing strategy providers, fits instead.
Read guideDuplicate Account Actions Alternative: An Honest Comparison
28 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
Duplicating an order is the easy half. Sizing it for a differently-sized account, and matching the symbol name at the other broker, is the part that decides whether the copy lands.
Read guideTradeSyncer Alternative: Different Position Sizes and Latency
28 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
Two mechanical questions bring people here: can each account carry a different size, and how long does a copy take? Both answered with the arithmetic and how copy time is measured.
Read guideTradersConnect Alternative: An Honest Comparison
19 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
For your own MetaTrader and cTrader demo, evaluation and funded accounts: one price per account with journal, alerts and live P&L per repeater included. How the totals really compare once analytics is counted, and where TradersConnect's ten platforms win.
Read guideSocial 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.
Read guideDuplikium Alternative: An Honest Comparison
7 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Duplikium and Trepeat both bill per connected account, at different prices. Both compared honestly, including where each one wins, and what a copier is like to actually live with day to day.
Read guideLocal 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.
Read guideTrading journals · 26
Daily Trading Review Template: Six Questions and a Log
3 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
A one-page short review, a longer one for the days that went wrong, and a log that counts the days you followed your plan.
Read guideDo You Need a Journal on a Demo Account?
3 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
A demo journal cannot show how you feel with money at risk, but it proves whether you can plan, record and review. Which fields still earn their time.
Read guideEdgewonk Alternatives: How Journals Import Trades
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Edgewonk's pages say imports are automated and name no method. How each journal words it, which platforms it names, and what to check before you rely on one.
Read guideExport cTrader History to Excel: Statement Formats, Stops and Hedging
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
cTrader's Statement opens as HTML, and what you can save depends on the app. Where the stop-loss lives and what netting does to the rows.
Read guideExport MT4 Trade History to Excel: The Steps and What the Report Holds
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
MetaTrader 4 saves history as an HTML report. The clicks, the columns it lists, whether it keeps the stop, and what MetaQuotes' help leaves unsaid.
Read guideExport MT5 Deals and Positions to Excel: Which Rows You Get, and Why
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
In MT5 a trade can be an order, a deal or a position. Which one you export, and whether the account is netting, decides what a row means.
Read guideFree Trading Journals Compared: What Free Includes
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Four journals offer a free plan and count it four different ways. What each free plan includes, which vendors list none, and how a trial differs.
Read guideHow to Keep a Trading Journal: A Routine With a Time Budget
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Four steps with a time budget each, a weekly review in a fixed order, and what to cut when a step overruns. Small enough to do on a bad day.
Read guideJournal Trades Across Multiple Accounts: One Record, Not Three
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Record the decision once and the differences per account. A worked example shows why three entries triple your sample and how R keeps accounts comparable.
Read guideJournaling Copied Trades: What to Record Per Copy
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
One entry for the decision, and a line on each copy only when it differed. A worked example prices a fill difference in R, with made-up fills.
Read guideMT4 vs MT5 Trading Journals: How One Trade Differs
3 Nov 2026 · 7 min read
MetaTrader 4 records orders; MetaTrader 5 keeps orders, deals and positions apart. What the platforms' own documentation says and what to ask a journal's importer.
Read guidePre-Trade Checklist Template for Forex: One Page, With a Log
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Twelve statements about your own rules to answer before an entry, a log of the answers, and a summary that compares all-Yes trades with the rest.
Read guideProp Firm Journal Template: A Free Rules Tracker With a Daily Log
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
One row per rule with room left and share used, plus a daily log that shows the drop from a high. You type the rules from your firm's own page.
Read guideTradervue Alternatives for Forex and CFD Traders
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Tradervue's free plan counts trades; another journal's counts executions. The conversion, worked with made-up numbers, and the markets each covers.
Read guideTradeZella Alternatives: Journals Compared by Accounts and Price
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
TradeZella's plans differ by how many accounts they connect. Here they sit beside other journals' account limits and prices, with the sum shown.
Read guideTrading Journal Features Checklist: What to Look For
3 Nov 2026 · 7 min read
Choose a trading journal by what it does with your trades. Eleven questions, where on a vendor page to find each answer, and a test you can run on a free plan.
Read guideTrading Journal for Prop Firm Evaluations: What to Log
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
A trade list cannot show how close a day came to a limit. The rows an evaluation journal needs, with one made-up week worked through.
Read guideTrading Journal Pricing Compared (Monthly and Yearly)
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Monthly against yearly, plan by plan, with what a year costs both ways and how big the gap is.
Read guideFree Trading Journal Template for Excel, With the Formulas Explained
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
One row per closed trade, with R, expectancy and profit factor already worked out and every field yours to rename. Excel and .csv, no sign-up.
Read guideTrading Journals Compared: Prices, Free Plans and Accounts
3 Nov 2026 · 8 min read
Eight journals, one matrix. Free plan, lowest price, accounts and trial, side by side.
Read guideTypes of Trading Journal: Spreadsheet, App, Notebook and More
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Notebook, spreadsheet, notes app, journal tool or platform history, side by side, plus the one test that matters: can it hold your own fields?
Read guideWeekly Trading Review: A Template With Ten Questions and the Numbers
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Ten questions for the week, each next to the figure it is about, so the answer starts from your record and not from how the week felt.
Read guideWhat to Write in a Trading Journal: The Fields That Earn Their Time
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Eighteen fields, before, during and after a trade, with a rough time for each and a verdict on which are worth it. Start small and add what your method needs.
Read guideBroker Statement vs Trading Journal: What Each One Records
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
The comment field on a platform is short, set at the wrong moment and shared with the broker. What each platform lets you write, and what only a journal can hold.
Read guideTrading Journal vs Trade Tracker: What Each One Can Tell You
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
A tracker can show you hold losers longer than winners. It cannot show why. A ten-trade worked example, and what one public tracker does.
Read guideTradesViz Alternatives: Plans, Limits and Markets Compared
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
What TradesViz's plans change (markets, import volume, accounts, charts) with the yearly sums worked out, beside the same limits on other journals.
Read guideTrading metrics · 10
Drawdown Recovery: The Gain Needed After a Loss
3 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Percentage losses and gains multiply, so recovering costs more than losing did. A lookup table and the formula behind it.
Read guideExpectancy in Trading: The Formula, With Worked Examples
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Win rate alone says nothing. Expectancy sets it against your average win and loss, in R, and shows where a strategy breaks even.
Read guideHow Many Trades Before Your Stats Mean Anything?
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
A seeded simulation, with the method on the page: what a zero-edge strategy measures at 20, 100 and 500 trades, and how often a real edge looks like a loser.
Read guideMaximum Drawdown: How to Measure It, With Examples
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
One equity series worked row by row: the peak, the gap below it, and why balance and equity give different drawdowns.
Read guideProfit Factor: Formula, Examples and Its Limits
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Profit factor looks like a verdict and behaves like a ratio of two sums. Worked lists show where it misleads.
Read guideR-Multiple in Trading: What 1R Means, With Examples
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
R puts every trade on one scale. One trade, six exits and three ways to record a partial close show what 1R really is.
Read guideTrading Metrics That Matter: 12 to Track and 5 to Skip
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
One trade list, every headline metric worked through, and an opinionated short list of what to track and what to ignore.
Read guideWin Rate vs Risk-Reward: Where a Strategy Breaks Even
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
A win rate means nothing without its reward-to-risk. Two grids show the break-even line and what each pairing is worth in R.
Read guideMonte Carlo for Traders, Explained With a Worked Example
3 Nov 2026 · 7 min read
Your record is one path out of many. Reshuffle the same trades, or redraw them from a win rate, and see how wide the range of falls and finishes is.
Read guideRisk of Ruin Explained: The Formula and Tables
3 Nov 2026 · 7 min read
Three tables: the chance of touching a limit by win rate and distance, by payoff, and within a fixed number of trades. Made-up inputs, arithmetic only.
Read guideBacktesting · 10
Backtest, Forward Test and Demo: What Each One Proves
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
What a backtest, a forward test and a demo account each can and cannot show, what to write down before a forward test, and how wide the noise is at 10, 30, 100 and 300 trades.
Read guideBacktesting Mistakes: Bias, Costs and Overfitting, With Examples
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
The handful of mistakes that make a backtest look better than the rules are, each with a worked example on made-up inputs, including the same rule with and without its costs.
Read guideBacktesting Software Compared: Replay Tools and Platform Testers
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Five backtesting tools side by side: price, data, free option and limits, from replay tools to the MetaTrader 5 and cTrader testers.
Read guideBacktest Log Template: R From Prices and a Tested-vs-Live Comparison
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Log each trade of a test and get R from the prices alone, then compare your backtest, forward-test and live averages side by side.
Read guideBar Replay vs Tick Data Backtesting: What Resolution Changes
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
A bar keeps four prices and loses the order between them. A worked example of what that does to a trade, and what MetaTrader 5, cTrader, FX Replay, TradingView and Soft4FX say about their data.
Read guideFree Forex Historical Data: Sources and What Their Terms Say
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Three free forex data sources and the wording of their terms on use, quoted, with what each leaves unsaid.
Read guideFX Replay Pricing and Limits Explained, Plan by Plan
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Every FX Replay plan and limit, the yearly price against twelve monthly payments, and what the free Beginner plan allows.
Read guideHow to Backtest a Trading Strategy by Hand, Step by Step
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
A rules-first procedure for backtesting by hand: what to write down, how to hide the future, what to log for each trade, and a finished log with its sums.
Read guideManual vs Automated Backtesting: Which Fits the Way You Trade
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
By hand tests your judgement slowly; a tester runs coded rules fast. A side-by-side of what each can and cannot see, from the testers' own documentation.
Read guideTradingView Bar Replay: Limits and Data Depth by Plan
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Replay depth by plan and interval from TradingView's own help page, the chart types it cannot replay, and what each plan includes, from its plan table.
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