TradeSyncer Alternative: Different Position Sizes and Latency

People comparing TradeSyncer with something else usually arrive with two mechanical questions rather than a feature list: can I run different position sizes on different accounts, and how long does a copy actually take. On Trepeat the first answer is yes: sizing belongs to each repeater, so accounts of different sizes each take their own lot. The second is measured rather than promised: every copy shows its own copy time on your Trades page. Trepeat is for one trader repeating their own trades across MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader accounts they own, from the cloud; both answers are set out in full below, with the arithmetic and how copy time is measured.

Different position sizes, in detail

Sizing on Trepeat belongs to the repeater — which links one source account to one or more followers — not to the account and not to a global setting. Within one repeater, an equity ratio already sizes each follower to its own equity. To size two followers off the same source by different rules, put them in separate repeaters on that source; changing one repeater does not touch the other.

• Fixed multiplier — the follower takes the source lot times a number you set. 0.5 halves it, 2 doubles it. Predictable, and the right choice when you have deliberately decided the proportion between two accounts.
• Equity ratio — the follower lot scales with the ratio of the two accounts' equity when both use the same deposit currency; otherwise the multiplier applies. A follower a third the size of the source takes roughly a third the position, and it keeps tracking as either account's equity moves, so you are not editing a multiplier every time an account grows or draws down.
• Max Volume — a per-order ceiling applied after the sizing rule. Whatever the arithmetic produces, nothing larger than this reaches the follower broker. Useful when one account has a hard size limit the others do not.
• Rounding mode — Floor, Round or Ceiling, snapped to the follower symbol's own volume step rather than to a fixed assumption. Floor is the default, so the follower never lands above the size the rule intended. Brokers reject volumes that sit off their step, which makes this the difference between a copy that fills and one that is refused.

There is a calculator on the site if you want to see what a given source lot becomes before you set anything up, and position sizing when copying trades works through which rule suits which setup.

Sizing only helps if the order reaches the right instrument, which is why each repeater also carries its own symbol allowlist and symbol remapping. Brokers spell the same market differently — suffixes, spaces, a hash, or an entirely separate name for gold — and an order against a name the follower broker does not recognise simply does not land. Symbol mapping across brokers covers the patterns to expect.

Latency: where the time actually goes

The gap between a source fill and the matching follower fill is three separate things, and only the middle one belongs to any copier: how quickly the source broker reports the fill; the engine's own work of sizing, checking and dispatching; and the follower broker's execution, which is usually the largest and by far the most variable of the three.

That third leg is why a headline millisecond figure is worth less than it looks. It belongs to a different company, it moves with the instrument and the session, and no copier — cloud or local — can shorten it. Trade copier latency takes that argument apart properly, and why follower fills differ explains why a different price is usually spread rather than lag.

Every copy on your Trades page shows its own copy time, from the moment the fill reached Trepeat to the moment the follower's broker confirmed, so you see what your own brokers do rather than a figure from someone else's. A copy can take several seconds when a broker is slow. The time the source broker takes to report the fill is not included. cTrader followers are usually faster than MetaTrader ones, because a MetaTrader order passes through an extra connection provider on its way to the broker.

Copy times are measurements, not a commitment. What your own accounts do depends on the two brokers involved, the instrument and the state of the market at that moment. Each repeater also sets its own limit on how long a confirmation may take before the copy is treated as failed, and a failed copy raises an alert naming what the broker reported rather than leaving you to find the gap at the end of the week.

Why Trepeat is the better fit for your own accounts

• Three platforms, copied in any direction — Trepeat connects MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader and repeats across them in either direction: a cTrader source driving MetaTrader followers, or the reverse, or any mix. On cTrader you sign in with your cTrader ID, so a password is never shared. Evaluation and funded accounts are supported on either platform — MetaTrader demo servers, or a cTrader demo account where the firm issues one — subject to the programme's own rules. Copying between MetaTrader and cTrader covers what crosses the boundary and what does not.
• Manual trades on a follower are off limits to the engine — every order Trepeat places carries its own stamp, 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, so you can trade a follower account by hand while it sits in a repeater. On a netting account the broker merges same-symbol positions, so a copy can join one you already hold — Trepeat then refuses to close it and says so, rather than closing your trade with it.
• One unhealthy follower does not stop the others — it is paused on its own while the rest of the repeater carries on. Once it reconnects, unpause it in the repeater's settings (or press Run if the repeater stopped); if the source drops, the repeater stops.
• Live P&L per account and per repeater — open positions valued as prices move, on one dashboard, rather than assembled from closed trades afterwards.
• Close origins recorded — a repeated close, a close made by hand in the broker terminal and a close through the Flatten button are three different entries in the history.
• Nothing to install — no VPS, no Expert Advisor, no always-on PC; you Run and Stop a repeater from the web app, and repeating continues whether your machines are on or off. See cloud vs local trade copiers.
• Journal, alerts and full trade history included — no share of anything, and no money moves through Trepeat: every account stays with its own broker in your name.

Where TradeSyncer may fit better

Two cases rule Trepeat out, whichever tool you then choose:

• You need live real-capital accounts. Trepeat currently refuses a live real-capital account at connection, on MetaTrader and cTrader alike: whichever platform your firm issues on, a challenge placed on a live account cannot be connected.
• You need a platform outside MetaTrader and cTrader. Check what the alternative lists and confirm your exact pairing in its documentation. Further platforms are planned on Trepeat with no date attached, so judge it on what it connects today.

Whether you may run a copy tool on a given account is set by that account's own paperwork — your broker's terms, or the rulebook of a proprietary trading firm's evaluation or funded programme. Trepeat does not read, enforce or interpret those rules, and neither does any alternative. Rules on copy trading covers the clauses worth finding before you connect anything. Nothing here is legal advice. Confirm, too, that every account you intend to connect to Trepeat is a supported demo account — a MetaTrader demo server, or a cTrader demo account. An account described as funded still needs that check — the label alone does not establish the account type.