Is copy trading allowed?
Yes, on every account type, evaluation or funded. A trade copier can mirror a master account into other accounts you hold, or place trades from an external signal provider. The condition is direction: every account involved must be on the same side of the market.
What is the one condition?
No opposite positions across accounts at the same time. Long ES on one account and short ES on another, whether copied or manual, is hedging and a permanent ban on every account involved. This applies to correlated products too, such as ES and MES or NQ and MNQ.
What stays per account?
Each account keeps its own rules: Max Loss Limit, Daily Loss Limit, position limit, consistency rule, flat time. A copier that sizes the same trade on a 25K (2-mini limit) and a 150K (10-mini limit) has to respect both.
What are you responsible for?
Everything the copier does. A missed flat time, a resting order into a news window on a funded Stream account, a position that exceeds the limit: the account owner answers for it, not the tool or the signal provider.
Which tools work?
Any copier that connects to Rithmic or Tradovate: platform-native copiers, third-party trade copiers and broker-side multi-account order routing. See the platform pages for setup.
Common mistakes
- Enabling an “inverse copy” option to test a strategy both ways.
- Copying a master’s full size into a 25K that only allows 2 minis.
- Leaving the copier running on a funded Stream account into a red-folder release.
Simulated accounts until Live. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.