Comparison
Choosing a trade copier: what actually matters.
Every copier says it is fast and reliable. Those words are free. Below are the specific behaviours that decide whether a copier costs you money on a bad day, with a straight answer for each on Quanify's side — check any tool you are considering against the same list.
Does it mirror partial fills?
This is the one worth checking first. A four-lot order that fills as two and then two is two separate executions. A copier that treats the order as the unit of work sees the second half as a duplicate and drops it — your follower ends up half-sized and nothing anywhere says so.
It is a nasty bug precisely because simulated accounts usually fill whole. The setup tests clean, then under-fills the moment it is pointed at live money.
Quanify keys on the execution, not the order, so each partial mirrors at its own size. A genuine broker retry of an execution already seen is still refused inside a 60-second window per account.
What stops a fill landing somewhere it shouldn't?
Ask what the check is, not whether there is one. On Quanify every account on a copy group is verified against your ownership before a single order is placed, so a fill can only ever clone to accounts you own. Muting an account takes it out of the cascade immediately without unpicking any routing, and the rest keeps running.
- Duplicate protection
- Per execution, 60-second window, per account
- Restart safety
- Fills stamped older than 30 seconds are refused outright
- Ownership
- Every account checked before any order is placed
- Stepping out
- Mute, without unlinking
How does it size followers?
Quanify uses whole-number multipliers, so a four-lot leader fill lands as four, eight or twelve. There is deliberately no fractional multiplier: a contract cannot be halved, so a half-size follower has to round somewhere, and a tool that rounds silently is a tool that surprises you. Followers can sit at different brokers and different balances under the same leader.
Where does the latency actually come from?
Be sceptical of latency numbers without a denominator. Followers dispatch inline, back to back, microseconds apart — but the wait you actually observe is your broker acknowledging the order, which is milliseconds, and which every platform on earth waits for equally.
Quanify's share of a round trip is under a tenth of a percent. The useful question is not whose dispatch is faster; it is whether anything sits between the fill and the follower. Quanify connects directly to Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TopstepX — no bridge process, no relay, no desktop agent.
What does it need from you to keep running?
No VPS, no desktop app, nothing to keep awake. The engine is server-side, so copy links and automations stay live with your laptop closed. Quanify also runs full strategy automation on the same broker connection, so an account moves between copying an operator and running your own strategy without re-onboarding.
Common questions
Can I try it before switching?
Yes. Connect a simulated or evaluation account and run the whole product against it. Nothing about the setup changes when you later point it at live money.
Does Quanify support prop firm accounts?
Funded and evaluation accounts work like any other account, at their own multiplier. Firm rules differ and are yours to follow — a copier does not exempt you from them, and some firms restrict copying between accounts entirely.
Is there a fractional multiplier?
No. Multipliers are whole numbers, because contracts are indivisible and silent rounding is how people get sized wrong without noticing.
Which brokers does Quanify copy between?
Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TopstepX, connected directly rather than through a third-party bridge.
Start on a simulated account.
Connect a sim or evaluation account and run the whole product against it before you point anything at live money. Nothing about the setup changes when you do.