Rithmic trade copier: copy across Rithmic accounts without a VPS

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

A Rithmic trade copier mirrors one Rithmic-based account onto others. Trading Floor connects Rithmic accounts directly over R|API with the user, password and system your firm issued, holds the session server-side, and mirrors your leader across them — and across your Tradovate, TopstepX and Volumetrica accounts — with every copy timed. Nothing installed, nothing running on your machine.

Why Rithmic floors end up on VPS bills

Rithmic is the backbone of many prop stacks: Tradesea and several firm-branded platforms ride on it, and Apex, Tradeify, Earn2Trade, Elite Trader Funding, Leeloo and Funded Futures Network all issue Rithmic logins. The traditional copiers that reach it are desktop software — an NT8 add-on, or an app on your Windows box — which makes your machine’s uptime part of the system. That is how a $30 copier grows a $30–$60/mo VPS bill: the hosting isn’t an upgrade, it is a patch for a dependency the architecture created. A cloud copier holds the R|API session server-side instead: your login connects once, encrypted, and the engine does the rest whether your computer is on or not.

How it works with Rithmic

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 (53ms 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.

Risk guardians, per account

Each follower carries its own drawdown, daily-loss and profit-target guardian. Set a guardian a cushion inside the firm’s number and a breach auto-flattens that account and stops copying to it — while the rest of the floor keeps running. The firm presets (Apex, Topstep, MyFundedFutures, Tradeify and others) apply in one click and use the same drawdown model as the free trailing drawdown calculator.

How to set up a Rithmic 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. Pick the Rithmic tile (or TradeSea, which runs on Rithmic), enter your Rithmic user, password and system, and choose the gateway closest to your servers. Accounts appear once Rithmic accepts the login.
3. Connect every follower login the same way. Mixed floors are normal: Rithmic 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 Rithmic 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.

Rithmic copiers compared

Every copier below lists Rithmic. The facts are from each vendor’s own pages on October 1, 2026; the honest differences are whether the engine runs on your machine (and so needs a VPS to be reliable), the price of a 20-account floor, and whether the latency claim is checkable.

Front-ends: keep trading where you like

Quantower, ATAS, Sierra Chart and R|Trader are front-ends; your accounts live on Rithmic underneath. Trading Floor copies at the broker level, so connect the Rithmic login once and keep trading in your platform of choice — every fill copies, no plugin needed. If a front-end sits on a Tradovate-based account instead, connect through the Tradovate tile.

Is copying allowed on your firm’s accounts?

Almost every futures prop firm allows copying between accounts you own and trade yourself and prohibits copying anyone else; the differences are in account caps, direction rules and which account types may mirror. Platforms don’t set those rules, firms do — so check your firm’s current rules before you mirror. We keep a sourced, dated table at prop firms that allow copy trading, and each firm page quotes the firm’s own help centre: Apex, Topstep, MyFundedFutures and Tradeify.

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.