cTrader Copy Alternative: Copy Between Your Own cTrader Accounts

Trepeat is a trade copier for accounts you already own. You trade one account — on cTrader, MetaTrader 4 or MetaTrader 5 — and a repeater places the same opens, closes and partial closes on your other accounts, each sized to that account. A cTrader source can drive MetaTrader followers and the other way round, so accounts split across platforms run as one setup, without a VPS, an Expert Advisor or a terminal left running.

cTrader Copy is a different kind of product: Spotware's copy-trading marketplace inside cTrader, where a strategy provider publishes their trading and other people put money behind it. The two answer different questions — whose trading to back, or how to keep your own accounts carrying the same orders — and this page is about the second, with one section on where the first is the better fit.

What Trepeat does with your cTrader accounts

For accounts that are all yours, Trepeat is the better fit: it crosses platforms in either direction, sizes each account its own way, matches symbol names once, and only ever repeats your own trades — there is no one else in the arrangement. You connect a cTrader account by signing in with your cTrader ID on cTrader's own site: no password is shared with Trepeat, and withdrawing the authorisation ends its access immediately. Connecting cTrader covers what is held and what happens when an authorisation lapses. MetaTrader 4 and 5 accounts connect alongside them, and a repeater can link any of them, in either direction.

Crossing platforms brings one problem worth knowing about before you meet it: the same instrument is spelled differently from one broker and platform to the next, with prefixes, suffixes and occasionally spaces. Each repeater carries its own symbol allowlist and symbol remapping, so a name mismatch is a setup decision you make once rather than a copy that quietly fails. Symbol mapping across brokers explains what to check.

Sizing, rules and Run / Stop, per repeater

A repeater links one source account to one or more followers, and its configuration lives on the repeater rather than in a global settings screen. To set two followers up differently, put them in separate repeaters on the same source. Each repeater has:

• Its own sizing rule — a fixed multiplier, or an equity ratio that scales each follower to its own equity when the accounts share a deposit currency, which is what you need when the accounts are not the same size.
• Its own symbol allowlist and remapping — a repeater can take a subset of what the source trades, under whatever names each follower's broker uses.
• Its own Run and Stop — a repeater is either Running or Stopped, and stopping one leaves every other repeater on the same source untouched.
• Its own recovery behaviour — a follower whose connection goes unhealthy is paused automatically so the rest carry on, instead of taking the whole setup down with it. Once it reconnects, unpause it in the repeater's settings (or press Run if the repeater stopped). If the source drops, the repeater stops.
• A boundary around your manual trades — Trepeat stamps every order it places, and its automatic closes only ever touch those copies. Flatten closes the source trade and every copy of it. Trades Trepeat isn't copying are never touched.

Every close is recorded by origin too — repeated from the source, closed by hand in the terminal, or a Flatten — so reconciling a week means reading a record rather than reconstructing one. If you have not set a copier up before, copying trades between two accounts is the shortest version of the whole workflow, and Repeater settings lists every control.

Whose money is involved

No money moves through Trepeat. Every account stays where it already is, with its own broker, in your name. Trepeat holds an encrypted authorisation to place orders on the accounts you connected, and it uses that authorisation only to read your accounts and to place or close Trepeat's own copies of what you traded on the source account, plus Flatten when you press it. Nobody takes a share of anything that happens on those accounts, because there is no one else in the arrangement — the only money involved is the subscription you pay for the software, set out in the table above.

Where cTrader Copy fits better

Four cases, each stated once, and each one a real reason to choose it:

• Backing another trader, or publishing your own trading for others to back. That is cTrader Copy's whole purpose, and Trepeat has no version of it: no one to follow, no leaderboard and no way to connect to another person's account. If the category boundaries are new to you, trade copier vs copy trading vs signals walks them apart.
• Copying with nothing outside the platform. cTrader Copy is part of cTrader, so there is no third-party service to authorise. Trepeat is that outside service — the one that also reaches MetaTrader.
• No flat subscription for the copying itself. In cTrader Copy the charges sit inside the provider relationship, as cTrader defines them, rather than arriving as a monthly tool bill.
• Real capital. cTrader Copy works with it. Trepeat currently refuses a live account when you add it, on cTrader and MetaTrader, and because the engine reaches only cTrader's demo environment, a challenge placed on a live cTrader account cannot be connected. Evaluation and funded accounts issued as cTrader demo accounts connect like any other — check the account type, not the funded label.

Whether an external copier is permitted on a given account is set by that account's own paperwork — your broker's terms, or the rulebook of an evaluation or funded programme. Trepeat does not read, interpret or enforce those rules, and no comparison page can either. Is copying your own trades allowed covers which clauses usually turn out to be the relevant ones. Nothing here is legal advice.