The basics
How Tradecopia detects and copies trades, what it controls, and how broker API limits affect replication.
8 articles
- How does Tradecopia copy trades between accounts?How Tradecopia detects trades on your leader account and sends matching order instructions to your follower accounts in real time.
- How does Tradecopia get a trade from your platform to your follower accounts?The step-by-step journey of a copied trade, and why the web plan replicates with lower latency than desktop.
- What's the difference between solo trading and copy trading?How copy trading works across a network and different brokers, why small timing differences are normal, and how the delay stays in milliseconds.
- What role does my broker play in copy trading?Your broker makes the final call on each fill. How brokers differ, and why copying across brokers or account types shows small, normal differences.
- Does Tradecopia support webhooks or an API?Tradecopia does not currently support webhooks or an API for external order signals; it copies the orders you place on your leader account.
- What does Tradecopia control, and what does my broker control?How responsibility is split between Tradecopia and your broker, and why outcomes like fill price are outside Tradecopia's control.
- What does Tradecopia need to copy trades?The four conditions that must be met simultaneously for Tradecopia to replicate trades, with a diagnostic checklist and symptom guide.
- How broker API rate limits affect trade replicationHow broker-imposed API rate limits slow replication during active trading, and how to manage them across multiple follower accounts.