Copy trading for every Apex account you own
Apex allows copy trading across the PAs you own, same direction only, with up to 20 active PAs per household. Execute once on a leader and TradeDupe mirrors the fill, and its brackets, to every enabled evaluation and PA through Tradovate, with a toggle and multiplier per account.
- Allowed between your own Apex PAs
- Runs on Tradovate
- Hosted 24/7
Leader
- APEX-EVAL-50K-B2copied · 1 contract
- APEX-PA-100K-C3copied · 2 contracts
- APEX-PA-150K-D4copied · 3 contracts
- APEX-EVAL-25K-E5paused
- Bracket orders mirrored
- TP/SL
- Multiplier per follower
- 1x–100x
- Hosted worker
- 24/7
- Tradovate authorization
- OAuth
The problem
Running 20 Apex PAs manually is a part-time job you did not sign up for.
Since the March 1 2026 relaunch Apex allows unlimited evaluations and "20 active PA accounts across all people in the same house, companies, and connections" (Apex help center, October 2026). Every setup means entering the same trade on every one of them. Every exit means flattening every account before the move is gone. Every stop adjustment is twenty clicks.
You miss fills. You fat-finger size. One account is long while another is already flat, and if you ever end up long on one PA and short on another, that is a hedging violation under Apex's "No Hedging of Any Kind" rule.
TradeDupe runs a hosted worker that listens to Tradovate's execution-report stream for the leader and dispatches follower orders in parallel the moment the leader fill arrives. You trade one account; every enabled Apex follower takes the same trade.
How it works
Connect a Tradovate login, pick a leader, toggle followers.
- 01
Connect your Apex Tradovate accounts
Authorize the Tradovate login that holds your Apex accounts through Tradovate's OAuth flow in the dashboard. You sign in on Tradovate's page; TradeDupe never sees your password. Every eval and PA under that login is discovered automatically.
- 02
Designate one leader
Pick the account you will actually execute on. Everything else becomes a follower. Switch the leader any time — there is no lock-in to which account drives the group.
- 03
Toggle which followers are live
Every follower has its own on/off switch that takes effect immediately, a whole-number multiplier from 1x to 100x, and an optional allowed-contract list. Pause a PA while a payout request is pending. Keep evals in a separate group.
- 04
Trade normally — TradeDupe handles the rest
The hosted worker listens to Tradovate's execution-report stream for the leader. When a fill arrives it dispatches follower orders in parallel and mirrors bracket TP/SL orders, including later modifications and cancellations.
Apex EOD evaluation sizes
Apex EOD evaluation parameters after the March 2026 relaunch.
TradeDupe does not read Apex's contract limits. You size each follower with a whole-number multiplier and an optional allowed-contract list. If your $50K eval allows 6 contracts and your $25K eval allows 4, lead from the $25K or give the $50K follower a higher multiplier. Intraday Trailing evaluations share these targets and contract limits, trail intraday, and have no daily loss limit.
| Account size | Profit target | EOD max drawdown | Daily loss limit | Eval max contracts | PA max contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25K | $1,500 | $1,000 | $500 | 4 | 2 |
| $50K | $3,000 | $2,000 | $1,000 | 6 | 4 |
| $100K | $6,000 | $3,000 | $1,500 | 8 | 6 |
| $150K | $9,000 | $4,000 | $2,000 | 12 | 10 |
Sources (checked October 2026):
- How many paid funded accounts am I allowed to have
- Prohibited activities
- Tradovate Group Copier
- 50% consistency requirement
- EOD evaluations
- EOD payouts
- Intraday trailing drawdown payouts
- Legacy PA consistency rules
Trustpilot: 4.2 TrustScore, 21,271 reviews (October 2026)
Critical to understand
The 50% PA consistency rule and copy trading: the math you need to internalize.
For PAs bought on or after March 1 2026, Apex's rule is that "no single trading day accounts for more than 50% of your total accumulated profit at the time of a payout request," and the calculation resets after each approved payout (Apex 50% consistency requirement, October 2026). Legacy PAs bought before that date keep the 30% windfall rule. Evaluations have no consistency rule. The check is per account; copying does not pool it.
Other PA payout facts as of October 2026: payouts up to weekly, minimum $500, maximum per request from $1,000 / $1,500 / $2,000 / $2,500 on payout one up to $1,000 / $3,000 / $4,000 / $5,000 on payout six for 25K–150K, 100% payout split on new PAs, and a PA closes after its sixth payout. The trailing drawdown stops once the account reaches drawdown plus $100.
Practical implication: a large green day on the leader is the same large day on every follower. Plan the leader's session around the PA closest to a payout request, or switch that follower off for the day.
Worked example (50% rule)
ExampleYou run 5 × $100K PAs. On Monday the copied trade nets $1,000 on each account. For any one account to request a payout, Monday's $1,000 must be no more than 50% of that account's accumulated profit, so each account needs at least $2,000 total before the request, on top of 5 trading days at or above the minimum daily profit ($300 on a $100K EOD PA) and the $500 payout minimum.
Five accounts means five separate paths to $2,000+, not one combined path to $10,000. The copier gives every account the same trades; it does not make the math easier. On a legacy PA the same Monday needs $3,333 (30%).
- 50% rule · per account
- $2,000
- Legacy 30% · per account
- $3,333
Manual vs TradeDupe
What changes when the copier handles execution.
Manual execution
- Re-enter every trade on every account, one by one
- Fills arrive seconds apart across accounts
- Fat-finger risk compounds with account count
- Exits are a race — some accounts give back edge
- Mental bandwidth spent on order entry, not the market
- Disabling one account mid-session means remembering to skip it
With TradeDupe
- One execution propagates to every enabled account
- Follower orders dispatched in parallel from a hosted worker
- Whole-number multiplier and allowed-contract list per follower
- Bracket TP/SL mirrored, including modifications and cancellations
- Full attention stays on the chart, not the DOM
- Toggle any account on or off with one click
Built for Apex workflows
Features designed around the way prop traders actually work.
Execution-report detection
The worker subscribes to Tradovate's execution-report stream for the leader. A fill is acted on when Tradovate reports it, not on a polling interval.
Multiplier per follower
Each follower copies at a whole-number multiple of the leader, 1x to 100x. Size a mixed stack of 25K evals and 150K PAs from one leader.
Rogue-trade protection
A fill on a follower that the copier did not place is closed at market to prevent unintended positions or cross-account hedging. Not available for followers on the same Tradovate login as the leader.
Independent follower toggles
Pause a PA while a payout request is pending, keep the rest running. Takes effect immediately; no need to disconnect.
24/7 hosted service
Runs on our infrastructure. Your local machine can be off — fills still mirror.
Tradovate OAuth authorization
New connections are authorized through Tradovate's OAuth flow in the dashboard. TradeDupe never sees your password.
Live execution feed
Every leader fill, every follower order and every reject appears in the dashboard feed, so you can verify what each account did.
Allowed-contract list
Restrict which symbols a follower will copy. A leader fill outside the list is skipped for that follower only.
Brackets, unlike Group Trade
Apex notes Tradovate's built-in Group Trade forbids bracket (ATM) orders. TradeDupe mirrors TP/SL brackets to every follower as resting orders.
Fit check
Is TradeDupe right for your Apex setup?
Good fit
- You hold 3+ Apex accounts (evals, PAs, or both)
- You execute one consistent strategy across them
- You trade through Tradovate
- You want execution to be a non-issue, not a skill
- You have a defined risk plan per account
Poor fit
- You only run one account — a copier is overkill
- You strategy-hop between accounts daily
- You haven't proven a stable process yet
- You expect automation to replace risk management
- You want to copy someone else's trades (Apex does not allow this)
Frequently asked
Everything Apex traders ask before signing up.
Does Apex Trader Funding allow copy trading?
Yes, between your own accounts. Apex's help center (October 2026) says: "Copy trading across PA accounts under your personal name and business name is allowed. However, the hedging rule still applies; all PAs must trade in the same direction and not hedge against correlated assets." It also says "trade copying with other traders is strictly forbidden." TradeDupe mirrors your own manual fills to your own accounts, which is the allowed case.
Can I copy between Apex evaluations and PA accounts at the same time?
Yes. You pick one leader account and mirror fills to any follower accounts you enable, evals, PAs or a mix. Each follower has its own on/off switch and whole-number multiplier. Evaluations have no account limit; PAs are capped at 20 active per household.
How does copy trading affect the Apex consistency rule?
PAs bought on or after March 1 2026 use a 50% rule: no single trading day may account for more than 50% of total accumulated profit at the time of a payout request, and the calculation resets after each approved payout. Legacy PAs use the 30% windfall rule. Either way it is checked per account. Copying identical trades to ten PAs gives each of them the same largest-day-to-total ratio, so the leader's pacing decides every account's eligibility.
What is the trailing drawdown and how does it work with copied trades?
EOD evaluations trail at end of day ($1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,000 for 25K–150K) and add a daily loss limit; Intraday evaluations trail intraday with no daily loss limit. On PAs the trailing drawdown stops once the account reaches drawdown plus $100, and the daily loss limit is enforced intraday (Apex help center, October 2026). Identical trades on identical account sizes hit drawdown at the same time; size the leader for the smallest follower.
Which brokers does TradeDupe currently support for Apex?
Tradovate only. Apex offers Rithmic, Tradovate and WealthCharts; TradeDupe cannot copy Rithmic or WealthCharts accounts. NinjaTrader and TradingView users on Apex route through Tradovate, and those fills are copied.
How are copied trades placed?
A hosted worker listens to Tradovate's execution-report stream on the leader account. When a fill arrives it dispatches follower orders in parallel, in Market or Limit copy mode, and mirrors bracket TP/SL orders including later modifications and cancellations.
Can I copy different quantities on different accounts?
Yes. Each follower has a whole-number multiplier from 1x to 100x and an optional allowed-contract list. TradeDupe does not read Apex's contract limits (EOD evals 4 / 6 / 8 / 12, PAs 2 / 4 / 6 / 10 for 25K–150K), so size the leader for the smallest follower or lead from it.
What happens if one follower account rejects an order?
A reject on one follower does not cascade to the others. The rejected account logs the event and the remaining followers continue to receive fills normally. You can review rejects after the session and decide whether to re-enable the account.
How does TradeDupe connect to my Apex Tradovate account?
Through Tradovate's OAuth flow in the dashboard. You sign in on Tradovate's page and TradeDupe never sees your password. Every Apex account under that login is discovered automatically.
Can I pause a single Apex account mid-session?
Yes. Each follower has an independent toggle. Flip it off and that account stops receiving copied fills immediately. The rest keep running.
What happens when a PA account hits its payout target?
The copier keeps running until you switch the follower off. New PAs can request a payout after 5 trading days that meet the minimum daily profit, with a $500 minimum and up to 6 payouts per PA before the PA closes (Apex help center, October 2026). Pause the follower while a request is pending if you do not want new risk on it.
Do I need to be running my computer for trades to copy?
No. TradeDupe runs as a hosted service. Your leader fills are detected on our infrastructure and follower orders are placed from there, independent of whether your local machine is online.
Why not just use Tradovate's built-in Group Trade for Apex?
Apex says Group Trade is auto-enabled for Apex users with more than one Tradovate account but "forbids the use of Bracket orders (ATMs)" (Apex help center, October 2026). If you trade with a stop and target attached, Group Trade will not carry them. TradeDupe mirrors bracket orders to each follower and keeps them updated.
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Connect the Tradovate login that holds your Apex accounts, pick a leader, and every enabled follower takes your next trade with you.