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

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 source account out to several followers at once — each sized to its own equity, pausable on its own, and able to sit at different brokers or platforms.

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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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