Copy Trader
You decide. You take the trade on your leader account the way you always have, and your other accounts follow. Nothing about your process changes except the typing.
The signal is your own fillCopy trading
One account leads. The rest of yours follow.
If you trade more than one futures account, you have already met the problem: the same trade, typed four times, four chances to get it wrong. Copy trading is the fix. You trade one account normally and the others reproduce it automatically, each at its own size.
The problem it solves
Almost nobody running futures has one account any more. There is a personal account, a funded account, an evaluation that needs to stay alive, and sometimes a second funded account at a different firm. They are all supposed to be trading the same thing.
Doing that by hand does not scale. Four windows, four order tickets, four different position sizes, and every one of them has to be right while the market is moving. The second and third fills are always worse than the first, and the account you forget is the one that was already long.
A copier removes the typing. You trade the account you actually watch — the leader — and every other account you own is a follower that reproduces the fill at its own size, in the same instant, without you touching it.
- You tradeYou place one order in the account you actually watch. Nothing about how you trade changes.
- Broker fillsYour broker reports the execution. That report is what starts everything else — not a screen read, not a poll.
- Each follower sizesEvery other account you own applies its own multiplier.
- Orders go outEach account places its own real order on its own connection. You typed once.
Every account in a group is one you connected and enabled yourself.
Sized per account, because your accounts are not the same size
This is the part that makes it usable rather than dangerous. Copying one-for-one is fine when every account is identical, and no one's accounts are identical.
A four-lot trade that is routine on a personal account can put a 50K evaluation most of the way to its daily limit. So each follower carries its own whole-number multiplier, applied before the order leaves: the same leader fill lands as four contracts on one account, eight on another, twelve on a third.
The multipliers are whole numbers deliberately. Contracts are indivisible, so a 0.5× multiplier has to round somewhere, and a tool that rounds quietly is sizing you wrong without telling you. If you want half the size, lead with half the size.
Leader fills 4 contractsES · simulated
Personal1×4
Funded 50K2×8
Funded 150K3×12
EvaluationMuted—
A muted account sits the trade out. The rest of the cascade never notices.
How the mirroring actually works
A copier has to learn that the leader traded. There are two ways to do that, and they are not equivalent.
Polling asks the broker "what does this account hold now?" every few seconds and infers what changed. It is simple, and it is wrong in exactly the situations that matter: two fills inside one interval look like one, and an entry that reverses inside the interval looks like nothing happened at all.
Execution events are pushed by the broker the moment an order fills, each carrying its own id. The copier is being told what happened rather than deducing it, and it can key on that id so a retransmission is recognised as the same fill instead of a second one.
Quanify mirrors on execution events. That is why partial fills reproduce correctly: a leader order that fills in three pieces produces three events and three mirrored fills, rather than one guess after the fact.
What separates one copier from another
The pitch is identical everywhere. These are the questions that actually distinguish them.
- Does it mirror partial fills?
- A larger order rarely fills in one piece. A copier that only sees the final position leaves your other accounts at the wrong size for the duration of the fill, and sometimes after it.
- What happens when the broker resends?
- Brokers retransmit. Without de-duplication keyed on the execution, a resend becomes a second position on every follower at once.
- Can it size per account?
- Copying one-for-one across accounts of different sizes is how evaluations get breached. Per-account sizing is not a premium feature, it is the entire point.
- Does anything have to stay running?
- If the copier is a program on your desktop, its uptime is your uptime — which is why so much copier advice is really advice about renting a VPS.
- What does it do to open positions when you stop it?
- Some tools flatten everything. Quanify never does: stopping a copier stops new orders, it does not liquidate what you are already holding.
- Where does the state live?
- If "muted" or "linked" lives in your browser, a phone and a desktop can disagree about what is armed. It belongs with whatever is placing the orders.
What copying does to your risk
Worth being straight about, because it is the one thing a copier genuinely changes about your trading.
Four accounts on one leader is one position held four times. It looks like more accounts and it behaves like more size. A bad day is a bad day in every account simultaneously, which is the opposite of diversification.
Costs multiply. Commission is charged per account. A strategy that was marginal on one account is worse on four.
That is what per-account sizing is for. Each account trades a size appropriate to its own balance rather than the leader's, so a trade that is routine on a large account is not disproportionate on a small one.
Copy trading and automation are different tools
Both put orders on several accounts without you typing them. What differs is who decides.
Automation
Your strategy decides. A TradingView alert or a script fires a webhook and the order is placed with no one at the desk.
The signal is a webhookSame accounts, either way
Both run on the same broker connections. An account can move between automated and manual without being re-onboarded, and Copy Trader takes precedence while it is armed.
No second setupCommon questions
What is copy trading?
Copy trading is when one account's trades are automatically reproduced on other accounts. In Quanify those are all accounts you own: one is designated the leader, the rest are followers, and each follower places its own real order at its own size when the leader fills.
How does copy trading work in futures?
The copier receives an execution event from the broker when the leader fills, resolves the contract, applies each follower's whole-number multiplier and risk limits, and places a separate order for each follower on that follower's own broker connection. Partial fills are mirrored one for one.
Can I copy trades between accounts at different brokers?
Yes, as long as both are accounts you own and both platforms are supported. The leader and its followers do not have to sit on the same connection or the same broker.
Do I need to keep my computer on?
No. Quanify holds the broker session server-side, so copies continue with your machine off. Desktop copiers do need to stay running, which is the usual reason people end up renting a VPS.
What happens to my open positions if I turn the copier off?
Nothing. Quanify never closes a position on your behalf — not on power-off, not on cancellation, not when a group is deleted. New orders stop; anything already open stays at your broker under your control.
Is copy trading the same as automated trading?
No. With copy trading you make the trading decision and your other accounts follow your fill. With automation a strategy makes the decision and fires a webhook. Quanify does both on the same accounts, and Copy Trader takes precedence while it is armed.
More on copy trading
How to judge a trade copier.Every copier claims to be fastest. The six questions that actually separate them, what the latency number really measures, and where Quanify stands.One fill, mirrored across every account you own.Mirror one leader account across every futures account you own, scaled per follower. Direct broker rails, execution-level de-duplication on every fill.Free copiers exist. Here is where the cost reappears.Free copiers exist and some are fine. What the free tier usually omits, where the cost reappears, and how to test a paid one without paying.Is copy trading legit?Mirroring your own futures accounts is ordinary trading with the typing removed. What the question means, and where the real constraints are.One fill. Every account you own.A cloud trade copier for futures. One leader fill mirrors to every account you own, sized per account, with no VPS and no desktop app to keep running.
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.