TL;DR: Both copy one leader across many funded accounts with per-account sizing and prop-style risk rules. Trading Floor is cloud-native (browser + iOS, nothing to run), cheaper ($25–50/mo vs $49.99–$149.99/mo), and publishes its per-order latency live. TradeCopia covers more desktop platforms (Quantower, ATAS, Sierra Chart) and has no account caps. Pick by architecture and platform, not by marketing.
| Trading Floor | TradeCopia | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs in | Any browser tab + iOS app — nothing to install, nothing to keep running | Desktop app on your Windows/Mac ($49.99/mo), or hosted web/VPS tiers ($79.99–$149.99/mo) |
| Price | $25/mo Starter (20 accounts) · $50/mo Pro (120 accounts) · 7-day free trial · pause instead of cancel | $49.99/mo desktop · $79.99/mo hosted web · $149.99/mo dedicated VPS · 7-day trial (desktop only) · purchases non-refundable |
| Latency | Measured per order, shown in your Copy Log, published live (54ms median copy, fill to follower) | No published per-order latency figures we could find |
| Brokers / platforms | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TopstepX, Rithmic, Volumetrica, TradingView signals | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TopstepX, Rithmic, TradingView — plus Quantower, ATAS, Sierra Chart, Tradesea |
| Risk controls | Drawdown / daily-loss / profit-target guardians that auto-flatten at a cushion you set inside the firm's line; per-account multipliers and caps; Safe Start | Per-account multipliers, daily loss caps, trailing drawdown, symbol filters, session windows |
| Account limit | 20 (Starter) / 120 (Pro) | Unlimited on all tiers |
| Proof of results | Verified P&L share cards with public verify pages; per-order receipts | P&L dashboard and journaling in-app |
TradeCopia's core is a desktop application: your Windows/Mac machine executes the copies, so your uptime, sleep settings, and connection are part of the system. Their hosted tiers move that to a managed VPS — at $79.99/mo (shared) or $149.99/mo (dedicated). Trading Floor was built the other way around: the engine always runs server-side, and the browser (or the iOS app) is just a window onto it. Close the laptop mid-session and your floor keeps copying.
Copy latency is the product in this category — every millisecond between the leader's fill and the followers' orders is slippage handed to every account. We couldn't find published per-order latency numbers for TradeCopia. Trading Floor measures every mirror, prints it in your Copy Log next to the fill (flagging broker-slow wires separately), and publishes the platform-wide median and p95 from real production orders at /latency. Whatever copier you choose, ask it for that page.
It's a browser tab and an iPhone app, and it proves itself. No desktop app that has to stay running through the session, no VPS bill to make it reliable — run your floor from your phone. Open the floor, connect your logins with OAuth (or encrypted credentials where a broker has no OAuth), and every copy shows its own latency next to the fill — the same numbers we publish live for the whole platform. The median copy is measured on real production orders (54ms median copy, fill to follower), and when a broker's wire is slow, the log says so instead of hiding it.
Risk guardians, with the trigger you set. Set a drawdown or daily-loss guardian per account, a cushion inside the firm's line, and a breach auto-flattens and stops copying to that account. They check every few seconds, not every tick, so leave room: a fast market can still reach the firm's line first, and the firm's own rules always apply.
The price is a trading-tool price, with no per-account fees. One flat $25/mo runs a 20-account floor; $50/mo runs 120 — stack discounted evals without your copier bill stacking too. 7-day free trial, and if you're between evals you pause — your settings, journal, and streaks wait for you. Retention by being worth keeping, not by lock-in.
Traders on Quantower, ATAS, or Sierra Chart; floors that genuinely need unlimited accounts on one login; and anyone who specifically wants the copier running on hardware they control. Those are its honest wins.
Funded traders on Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TopstepX, Rithmic, or Volumetrica who want zero infrastructure, receipts on every copy, risk guardians that flatten at a cushion you set, and a $25–50/mo price with the 7-day free trial — while keeping the option to pause between evals.
We can't compare directly because TradeCopia doesn't publish per-order latency figures. Trading Floor times every real production copy and publishes the median live at tradingfloor.me/latency. To compare, try Trading Floor on accounts TradeCopia is not copying to: two copiers on the same accounts would copy every trade twice.
Trading Floor: $25/mo (Starter, 20 accounts) or $50/mo (Pro, 120 accounts), 7-day free trial. TradeCopia: $49.99/mo for the desktop app, $79.99/mo hosted web, $149.99/mo dedicated VPS, with a 7-day trial on desktop only. For a browser-based copier specifically, that's $25–50 vs $79.99–$149.99.
Yes. Both copy across Tradovate-based accounts (which is what Apex uses) and TopstepX. Trading Floor additionally supports Volumetrica-based prop accounts.
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