Apex lets you copy your own trades across up to 20 Performance Accounts, all in the same direction. It also bans bots and algorithms, so copy only trades you place yourself. Here are Apex's rules, quoted and linked, and how to copy from one Tradovate account to the rest.
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Apex account 1You place the trade Checked Oct 24, 2026 from Apex's own pages. Not affiliated with Apex Trader Funding.
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Read our full Apex guide →Copying between your own Performance Accounts (personal and business user accounts) is allowed, as long as all accounts trade the same direction and the 20-PA cap is respected. Tradovate Group Trade is enabled automatically for users with more than one Tradovate account, and WealthCharts has a built-in copier. The Live program FAQ says group trading is not permitted on live accounts.
“Copy trading across PA accounts under your personal name and business name is allowed.”
No Apex page bans a trader's own third-party copier outright. The legacy PA compliance page says the trader is solely responsible for results from trade copiers or external programs, and Apex encourages submitting software for approval before use. The same page bars PA and Live accounts from being managed by copy-trading services or trade-mirroring software run by another party.
“the results from the use of any trade copiers or external programs”
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Automation and algorithms are banned. The legacy compliance page names AI, autobots, algorithms, fully automated systems, HFT and set-and-forget trading, and says the ban covers all account types. The Live program FAQ repeats that automation is not allowed. ATM bracket orders, which automate stops and targets, are explicitly encouraged.
“No Automation or Algorithm Usage allowed”
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Trade copying with other traders is forbidden. Copying to or from accounts at other prop firms is not addressed. Apex's Tradovate FAQ says the Apex trade copier, when connected through NinjaTrader, can trade Tradovate, Rithmic and personal broker accounts at the same time.
“trade copying with other traders is strictly forbidden”
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All accounts must trade directionally. Opposing long and short positions in the same or correlated instruments are banned, including across multiple accounts and against other traders in the same household. A violation closes the account.
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Tradovate, Rithmic (R|Trader Pro), WealthCharts, NinjaTrader (via Tradovate or Rithmic), TradingView (via Tradovate), Bookmap (via Rithmic), Jigsaw (via Rithmic), Quantower (via Rithmic)
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Up to 20 active PAs at a time, counted across EOD, Intraday and Legacy PAs and across everyone in the same household and related companies. Apex says there is no limit on evaluation accounts, but it prohibits stockpiling discounted evaluations in order to blow through them. Live traders can scale up to 5 live accounts.
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Add each evaluation or funded account through Tradovate, using the login details Apex gives you.
Apex bans bots and automation, so the Room's source is the account where you place trades by hand, not an alert, a signal channel or an AI agent.
A Room links one signal source to one or more receiver accounts.
Each receiver gets its own sizing, stops, symbol mapping and filters.
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NinjaTrader Connect TradovateMedium setup Tradovate Futures · Medium setup
You click Connect and log in on Tradovate's own sign-in window, then choose the account to automate and name it.
Each account in a Room has its own settings, so one signal can open different sizes, stops and symbols on each account.
Money management Tradovate · Live Closes and modifications Tradovate · Live Trading schedule Tradovate · Live Fixed lot or risk-based sizing for every copied trade.
Example Test a new source at a fixed 0.10 lot, then move to percentage-of-balance risk.
Use the signal's levels, set your own, and decide whether to trade when a level is missing.
Example Refuse any trade that arrives without a stop loss.
Translate the source's symbol names to your platform's names.
Example GOLD in the signal becomes XAUUSD on your broker.
Execute only listed symbols, or skip the ones you don't trade.
Example Copy EURUSD, GBPUSD and XAUUSD only.
A fixed size for specific symbols that overrides the general rule.
Example Gold always opens at 0.01 even when the default is 0.50.
Detect or add broker symbol prefixes and suffixes automatically.
Example EURUSD becomes EURUSD.pro on a broker that uses the .pro suffix.
Choose whether exits and SL/TP changes from the source are mirrored.
Example Follow the entries, but manage your own exits.
Limit each receiver to the days and hours you choose.
Example Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 22:00 UTC.
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Compare plansNot under Apex's current rules, which ban automated and algorithmic trading on all accounts. Copy only trades you place yourself on the source account.
No. Apex's Tradovate FAQ describes an Apex trade copier that runs through NinjaTrader. Copygram is a separate cloud copier: it connects Apex accounts issued on Tradovate and copies the trades you place yourself, with nothing running on your computer.
Copying between your own Performance Accounts (personal and business user accounts) is allowed, as long as all accounts trade the same direction and the 20-PA cap is respected. Tradovate Group Trade is enabled automatically for users with more than one Tradovate account, and WealthCharts has a built-in copier. The Live program FAQ says group trading is not permitted on live accounts. Checked on Oct 24, 2026 against Apex's own rules.
No Apex page bans a trader's own third-party copier outright. The legacy PA compliance page says the trader is solely responsible for results from trade copiers or external programs, and Apex encourages submitting software for approval before use. The same page bars PA and Live accounts from being managed by copy-trading services or trade-mirroring software run by another party. Automation and algorithms are banned. The legacy compliance page names AI, autobots, algorithms, fully automated systems, HFT and set-and-forget trading, and says the ban covers all account types. The Live program FAQ repeats that automation is not allowed. ATM bracket orders, which automate stops and targets, are explicitly encouraged.
Up to 20 active PAs at a time, counted across EOD, Intraday and Legacy PAs and across everyone in the same household and related companies. Apex says there is no limit on evaluation accounts, but it prohibits stockpiling discounted evaluations in order to blow through them. Live traders can scale up to 5 live accounts. Copygram's public plans connect up to 5 trading accounts in total.
Trade copying with other traders is forbidden. Copying to or from accounts at other prop firms is not addressed. Apex's Tradovate FAQ says the Apex trade copier, when connected through NinjaTrader, can trade Tradovate, Rithmic and personal broker accounts at the same time.
Connect your accounts, set each one's size and limits, and run the copier in the cloud.
