Copying trades at FTMO
Allowed between your own accounts. Stay within their limit across accounts (capped at $400,000 across all accounts). Their own words first, then every rule we read, with the source and the date.
Rules read 16 Oct 2026 · MT4 · MT5 · cTrader · Not affiliated with FTMO
Copying your own accounts, in their words
“If identical or substantially similar trading is detected across multiple FTMO accounts … and the total fictitious capital exceeds the following limits, FTMO reserves the right to suspend the affected accounts.”
Source: ftmo.com/en/faq/how-many-accounts-can-i-have · read 16 Oct 2026
Copying within their rules with Trepeat
- Connect only accounts that are yours. Trepeat copies between accounts under your own login.
- Stay within their limit across accounts (capped at $400,000 across all accounts).
- Do not hold opposite positions across your accounts. Trepeat copies in the same direction as your source.
- Their rules say not to trade from a United States location, and Trepeat's cTrader copies are sent from servers in the United States. Ask them before you connect a cTrader account.
Rules against different traders sharing an IP address, a device or a VPS are in the table below. Trepeat's servers place copies for all its users, and we have not confirmed what a firm sees when two Trepeat users trade with it.
Trepeat currently connects demo accounts only. Many evaluation and funded accounts are demo accounts.
“With Trepeat” is our reading of their rules, not FTMO's permission.
Every rule we read
| Rule | In plain words |
|---|---|
| Copying your own accounts | Similar trading capped at $400,000 total “If identical or substantially similar trading is detected across multiple FTMO accounts … and the total fictitious capital exceeds the following limits, FTMO reserves the right to suspend the affected accounts.” ftmo.com/en/faq/how-many-accounts-can-i-have · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| A total across your accounts | Capped at $400,000 across all accounts “At any given time, the total capital allocation across all accounts and products is limited to $400,000 per trader or strategy (prior to any scaling).” ftmo.com/en/faq/how-many-accounts-can-i-have · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| Copier software | Copied trades count towards the $400,000 cap “identical or substantially similar trading is detected across multiple FTMO accounts, including trades copied from or based on the same third-party source” ftmo.com/en/faq/how-many-accounts-can-i-have · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| Servers and VPS | Allowed, avoid a US location “The use of VPN/VPS is also generally allowed. … When using VPN/VPS, clients should also avoid changing their geolocation to the United States” ftmo.com/en/faq/can-i-travel-or-use-vpn-vps · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| Expert Advisors | Allowed, hyperactive EAs not “we have no reason for limiting or restricting your trading strategy, whether it’s discretionary trading, algorithmic trading or EAs.” ftmo.com/en/faq/which-instruments-can-i-trade-and-what-strategies-am-i-allowed-to-use · read 16 Oct 2026 “automated robots / EAs (Expert Advisors) which cause the trading account to become hyperactive in the sense of an excessive number of more than 2,000 server requests per day” ftmo.com/en/forbidden-trading-practices · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| IP and device | Allowed, tell FTMO first “You must inform us if you use … the same device (such as computer, mobile phone or tablet) for accessing the Services with any other user of our Services.” cdn.ftmo.com/docs/terms-and-conditions/f8d5ca5086964c86a6ee2a77f20bdbd7 · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| Hedging across accounts | Opposite trades banned if manipulative “including between connected accounts, accounts held with various operators/providers … simulated trades or combinations of trades for manipulative purposes, for example by simultaneously entering into opposite positions” ftmo.com/en/forbidden-trading-practices · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| News trading | Allowed, but 2-minute window on funded accounts “FTMO restricts order execution for 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after selected news releases for all accounts, excluding the exceptions mentioned below.” ftmo.com/en/faq/can-i-trade-news · read 16 Oct 2026 “This restriction does not apply to: any Swing type accounts any accounts in the FTMO Challenge or Verification phase.” ftmo.com/en/faq/can-i-trade-news · read 16 Oct 2026 |
| IP region | Avoid a US location; restricted countries “Traders who travel to the United States should avoid logging in to MetaTrader and cTrader accounts from there.” ftmo.com/en/faq/can-i-travel-or-use-vpn-vps · read 16 Oct 2026 “means the countries where we do not provide the Services and from which we do not accept citizens or residents as customers” cdn.ftmo.com/docs/terms-and-conditions/f8d5ca5086964c86a6ee2a77f20bdbd7 · read 16 Oct 2026 |
Price on their page
- Cheapest challenge
- €79 for a $10,000 account (1-Step)
- Read
- 16 Oct 2026 · ftmo.com/en/1-step-challenge
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