Copying between your own accounts: why and how
In this lesson you'll learn
- The common reasons to copy between your own accounts
- How to set up masters and followers
- The checks to run first
Why traders copy to themselves
- Several prop accounts: trade once, execute on all (where the firms allow it).
- Different brokers or platforms: analyse and trade on one, mirror to another.
- Different risk levels: a conservative and an aggressive version of the same trades.
- Personal and family accounts run with the same strategy.
Setting it up
- Choose the master: the account you actually trade.
- Add each follower and connect it.
- Pick a sizing rule per follower: ratio for similar accounts, equity-proportional for different sizes, risk % to size from the stop loss.
- Map symbols if brokers name them differently (XAUUSD vs GOLD).
- Set limits: daily loss, drawdown, equity stop.
Checks before going live
- Test with one small trade: does it open, modify and close on every follower?
- Check prop-firm rules on copying, and on identical trades across accounts.
- Make sure a follower can never copy back into its own master (a copy loop).
Common mistakes
- Skipping symbol mapping when brokers name symbols differently.
- Not testing open, modify and close before trading real size.
- Ignoring prop-firm copy rules.
How this works when you copy trades
Goldman Copier blocks copy loops automatically (an account copying into itself through another link) and supports symbol mapping per follower.
Check yourself
1. Which sizing rule fits accounts of different sizes?
2. XAUUSD on one broker is GOLD on another. You need…
3. What should you test first?
Key takeaways
- Copying to your own accounts saves time across brokers and prop firms.
- Choose sizing per follower and map symbols.
- Test a small trade end to end, and check firm rules.
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