Copygram Lot Sizing: Settings and Worked Examples

Copygram configures position size separately for each receiver in a Room. Its documented Money Management menu includes Fixed Lot, MM from Room (Multiplier), X Lots per 1000 (Balance), Percentage Risk Balance and Fixed Risk Amount per Trade. These methods answer different questions: how much volume to copy, how to scale volume, or how to calculate size from a risk budget.

A fixed lot amount is not a fixed potential loss. The instrument, stop distance, contract specification and account currency still matter. The examples below explain the calculations; they are not recommended trade sizes or a guarantee of the loss you will realize.

Where to configure receiver sizing

Open the relevant Room, choose its receiver and review Money Management Option and Money Management Value. Use the current receiver settings documentation alongside the actual controls available for your connection. Check each receiver separately rather than assuming a change applies to the whole Room.

The documentation currently names balance-based settings. Do not treat them as an equity-based mode: balance and equity differ when positions have floating profit or loss. See the balance, equity and multiplier comparison if you are choosing between approaches.

Fixed Lot: specify the copied volume

Fixed Lot uses the configured size for each copied trade. In a simple example, a receiver set to 0.10 lots requests 0.10 lots whether the source instruction specifies 0.20 or 0.50 lots. The receiver must still accept that quantity for the mapped instrument.

Compare two orders on the same instrument: at the same volume, a stop twice as far from entry implies approximately twice the price-distance exposure before costs. Equal lot sizes therefore do not create equal monetary risk across orders.

MM from Room: multiply the signal lot size

The documented formula is signal lot size multiplied by the configured multiplier. A 0.20-lot signal with a 0.5 multiplier gives 0.10 lots; a 2 multiplier gives 0.40 lots before the destination’s quantity constraints are applied.

This is a volume relationship. It does not inspect a prop firm’s remaining loss allowance or guarantee matching percentage risk. If the signal has no usable volume, establish the route’s behavior in a permitted demo environment before relying on this mode.

X Lots per 1000: scale with balance

This setting scales quantity with account balance. As an illustrative calculation, 0.01 lots per 1,000 units of balance gives 0.05 lots at a balance of 5,000: 5,000 ÷ 1,000 × 0.01 = 0.05. Confirm the account denomination and symbol quantity rules for your receiver.

This mode scales volume, rather than calculating the monetary exposure to a stop. A wider stop can still increase the potential loss. It also does not automatically subtract floating losses from balance.

Percentage Risk Balance and fixed risk amount

Percentage Risk Balance uses a percentage of balance and the stop-loss distance to calculate size. For an educational example, assume a USD account balance of 10,000, a chosen calculation percentage of 0.5%, a 25-pip stop and a pip value of USD 10 per pip for one standard lot. The risk budget is USD 50, and 50 ÷ (25 × 10) = 0.20 lots before costs and quantity constraints.

Fixed Risk Amount per Trade starts from a chosen monetary amount instead of a percentage. With the same assumptions and a USD 25 budget, the illustrative size is 25 ÷ (25 × 10) = 0.10 lots. Verify how the receiver interprets the amount for its account currency.

These calculations require a valid stop distance and instrument value. They are not universal formulas for futures contracts or crypto quantities. Slippage, gaps, commissions, currency conversion and rounding can make the realized loss different. Check the missing-stop setting and supported behavior before activation.

Symbol Lot Exceptions override the main setting

The documentation states that Symbol Lot Exceptions take priority over default Money Management. If the default is Fixed Lot 0.50 and XAUUSD has an exception of 0.01, that symbol uses the exception. Inspect this list when a trade size differs from your main setting.

Use symbol mapping to identify the correct instrument, then check its contract size, minimum volume and volume step. Mapping a symbol name does not make two instruments economically identical.

A receiver sizing checklist

• Record the receiver account, currency, instrument and applicable contract specification.

• Calculate one expected quantity using explicit assumptions and compare it with the selected mode.

• Check symbol exceptions, stop-loss handling, minimum size, quantity increments and margin.

• Review combined exposure when several signals or receivers are active at once.

• Where permitted, use demo accounts to compare the source instruction, Copygram signal log and receiver order record. Do not change real positions just to test an article example.

If the expected and actual quantities differ, work through the order troubleshooting guide before sending the instruction again. For an account-to-account workflow, review MetaTrader copying and current plans before connecting your accounts.