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Trade-copying guides
Plain-English, no-hype explainers on how trade copying actually works — from the team building Trepeat.
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How 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 guideDo You Need an MT4 Plugin to Copy Trades?
29 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
An MT4 copier can be a plugin/EA you install in the terminal, or a cloud service 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 — 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 · 5
Your 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 · 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.
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 · 10
Copy 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 · 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.
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 — 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 — 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 — 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 · 8
Tradecopia 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.
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