Apex trade copier: run size across every Apex account, inside Apex’s rules

By Kenten Kronemann (Kenny Trades) · Last updated October 1, 2026

An Apex trade copier mirrors one Apex Trader Funding account onto the others you hold. Apex evals and Performance Accounts run on Tradovate and Rithmic, both of which Trading Floor connects natively: trade the leader once and every Apex account follows, each with its own multiplier, contract cap and a drawdown guardian set against its trailing threshold.

Does Apex Trader Funding allow a trade copier?

Apex’s help centre allows copying across Performance Accounts you own, under your personal and business names, with a hard cap of 20 active PA accounts counted across the whole household and any companies you control — exceeding it is a payout-eligibility and account-closure matter. All accounts must trade the same direction (no hedging across accounts or correlated products), and a PA may only ever be traded by the person named on it: copying to or from anyone else’s account is prohibited. Apex also notes that Tradovate’s built-in Group Trade is enabled for users with more than one Tradovate account.

Source: How Many Paid/Funded Accounts Am I Allowed to Have? (Apex help centre), read October 1, 2026. Firms change rules by plan and promo with no notice — check the current version of that page before you mirror, and see our rules by firm for the rest.

How it works with Apex

Connecting Tradovate accounts: OAuth

Tradovate-based accounts connect with Tradovate’s own OAuth flow: you sign in on Tradovate’s page, approve access, and come back. Trading Floor never sees the password — it holds a token you can revoke from Tradovate at any time — and every account under that login (an Apex eval, a MyFundedFutures account, a personal account) appears on the floor at once. The connection takes about 90 seconds. NinjaTrader brokerage accounts run on Tradovate’s infrastructure and connect the same way.

Connecting Rithmic accounts: your Rithmic login

Rithmic-based accounts connect with the Rithmic user, password and system name your firm issued (the same ones you type into R|Trader or your front-end), plus the gateway closest to you. Credentials are stored encrypted and the engine holds the R|API session server-side, so nothing on your machine has to stay running. If you trade from Quantower, ATAS or Sierra Chart on a Rithmic account, keep trading there: the copier works at the broker level, so every fill copies with no plugin in your platform.

What gets copied

The engine mirrors the leader’s net position per contract onto each follower, scaled by that follower’s multiplier and clamped by its max-contracts cap. Entries, scale-ins, partial exits, flattens and reversals all land on every follower, sized for that account. Mirrored stop and target legs go out as one broker-side OCO pair on Tradovate; on TopstepX, Rithmic and Volumetrica they are two orders, and the copier cancels one when it sees the other fill. A limit entry is mirrored as a limit and given a few seconds to fill at your price before the engine backstops it, and your first live session runs under Safe Start: one contract per follower until you lift it or set that account’s cap.

How fast, and how you check

Every copy prints two numbers in your Copy Log: the engine’s own share (detect the fill, size each follower, submit) and the broker’s wire time, attributed separately so a slow gateway is never disguised as engine speed — or vice versa. The platform-wide median copy, the engine’s p95 and the share of copies above the disclosed 200ms cutoff are published live from real production orders (54ms median copy, fill to follower). Copy delay is slippage handed to every follower on every entry, so we show the number instead of describing it.

Built around the trailing threshold

Apex’s drawdown trails your account’s high-water mark, on intraday plans with unrealized peaks included. Set the drawdown guardian a cushion above that line: reaching the cushion auto-flattens the account and stops copying to it (checked every few seconds, so leave room). The guardian uses the same model as the Apex drawdown calculator, and it acts per account: one PA hitting its line never takes the floor down. Followers always hold the leader’s side — a reverse-copy setup would break Apex’s same-direction rule, so the copier never offers one — and per-instrument contract caps are enforced before an order fires.

How to set up a Apex trade copier, step by step

1. Create a Trading Floor account at /signup and pick a plan: Starter ($25/mo) runs up to 20 accounts across two broker logins, Pro ($50/mo) runs 120 across unlimited logins. The first month is free.
2. Connect the login that holds your leader. Tradovate-based Apex accounts connect with OAuth in about 90 seconds; Rithmic-based ones with your Rithmic user, password and system, stored encrypted.
3. Connect every follower login the same way. Mixed floors are normal: Apex accounts next to accounts at other firms, personal accounts, or a TradingView strategy as the signal source.
4. Crown the leader and enable followers. One account leads; tick the accounts that should mirror it. A disabled account is left completely alone.
5. Size each follower. Set a multiplier (or a fixed contract count) and a max-contracts cap per account, so a 50k eval and a 150k funded account never share one setting.
6. Arm the guardians. Apply the Apex preset, then nudge the drawdown and daily-loss lines to leave the cushion you want. Guardians act per account at your line.
7. Run Test floor, then Start. Test floor checks every connection and your copy wiring without placing an order. First session: Safe Start holds followers at one contract until you set a cap.
8. Trade the leader normally and read the Copy Log. Every copy shows its fill, its engine latency and the broker’s wire time; rejections and skips appear with a reason instead of vanishing.

Apex copiers compared

The copiers traders ask about for Apex floors, with the facts their own pages showed on October 1, 2026. Apex’s 20-PA cap fits inside every plan here, so the differences are where the engine runs, what a 20-account floor costs, and whether the speed claim is checkable.

What it costs

Starter is $25/month for up to 20 accounts across two broker logins; Pro is $50/month for up to 120 accounts across unlimited logins. Yearly billing is ten months’ price. There are no per-account fees and nothing to host. Between evals you pause instead of cancelling — settings, journal, payout tracker and streaks wait for you. The first month is free, so the honest way to evaluate it is to run one real session and read your own Copy Log. Plans in plain text: /pricing.md.