City Traders Imperium allows copy trading as long as the CTI account is the master. It can send trades to your other CTI accounts, your personal broker account or your accounts at other prop firms, but it can't receive trades from anywhere else. Here are CTI's rules, quoted and linked, and how to copy from a CTI MT5 account with Copygram.
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City Traders Imperium account 1You place the trade Checked Nov 8, 2026 from City Traders Imperium's own pages. Not affiliated with City Traders Imperium.
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Read our full City Traders Imperium guide →Copying between your CTI accounts is allowed with one of them as the master. A CTI account can't receive trades from anywhere else, and copying other traders or sharing an EA with other traders is banned. CTI invites you to get a setup approved by support before you start.
“You can copy trades as long as the CTI account used is the Master Account.”
Source: Copy Trading Policy
No copier software is named or banned. A VPS may be used for copying between accounts if it follows the copy trading policy, uses no VPN, proxy or IP masking, and is pre-approved before trading. Social trading tools for copying other traders are banned. You may trade on up to 2 devices, and only one account per household may use a single IP address.
“You may use a VPS for copy-trading between accounts”
Any EA, bought ones included, is allowed on the 1-Step Challenge. On the 2-Step Challenge, Instant Funding and Direct Funding only your own EA is, meaning one you hold the full source code for. EAs don't run on Match-Trader, and sharing an EA with other traders is banned.
“'your own' means an EA you hold the full source code for”
Source: EA trading rules at CTI
One direction only. A CTI master account may copy out to your personal account with any broker and to your accounts at other prop firms. Copying into a CTI account from another prop firm or from your personal account is not allowed.
“CTI Master Account → Other prop firms' accounts.”
Source: Copy Trading Policy
Hedging is banned on every programme: inside one account, across your CTI accounts, with other traders and on highly correlated instruments. The terms extend it to opposite positions on accounts held with other entities. The account may be closed and hedged profits voided.
“At CTI, hedging is not allowed on any of our funding programs.”
Source: Does CTI allow hedging?
MetaTrader 5 (not in the US), Match-Trader
Source: citytradersimperium.com
Challenges: two $100,000 accounts or their equivalent, such as four $50,000, scaling to $200,000 per account and $400,000 in total. Instant and Direct Funding: two $80,000 accounts or equivalents. One client profile per person, and accounts can't be merged.
Checked on from City Traders Imperium's own website and help center. Firms change their rules; confirm with City Traders Imperium before you trade.
Copygram connects City Traders Imperium accounts through MetaTrader.
Add each evaluation or funded account through MetaTrader 5 or MatchTrader, using the login details City Traders Imperium gives you.
Usually the account you trade by hand. Use alerts, signal channels or an AI agent only where City Traders Imperium's automation rules allow them.
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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MT4 
TradeLocker 
DXtrade 
Tradovate 
NinjaTrader Connect MetaTrader 5Easy setup MT5 Forex · Easy setup
Same hosted setup as MT4. When an MT5 account is only a signal source, connect it with the investor (read-only) password.
MatchTrader Forex · Medium setup
Choose your broker from the list, sign in with your MatchTrader details and select the account.
Each account in a Room has its own settings, so one signal can open different sizes, stops and symbols on each account.
MetaTrader comment MT5 · Live BUY XAUUSD 0.10Comment: CopygramSignalOpenLot exceptions per symbol MT5 · Live Prefixes and suffixes MT5 · 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.
Skip signals whose AI confidence score falls below your threshold.
Example A 60% threshold executes a signal scored 75% and skips one scored 45%.
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.
Add a comment to every MT4/MT5 trade, for example when a prop firm asks you to label strategy trades.
Example Tag every copied trade “CopygramSignal”.
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Compare plansOnly from another CTI account acting as the master. CTI doesn't allow copying into a CTI account from your personal account or from another prop firm, so don't add a CTI account as a receiver of an outside source.
You may trade on up to 2 devices, and only one account per household may use a single IP address. Social trading tools for copying other traders are banned.
Copying between your CTI accounts is allowed with one of them as the master. A CTI account can't receive trades from anywhere else, and copying other traders or sharing an EA with other traders is banned. CTI invites you to get a setup approved by support before you start. Checked on Nov 8, 2026 against City Traders Imperium's own rules.
No copier software is named or banned. A VPS may be used for copying between accounts if it follows the copy trading policy, uses no VPN, proxy or IP masking, and is pre-approved before trading. Social trading tools for copying other traders are banned. You may trade on up to 2 devices, and only one account per household may use a single IP address. Any EA, bought ones included, is allowed on the 1-Step Challenge. On the 2-Step Challenge, Instant Funding and Direct Funding only your own EA is, meaning one you hold the full source code for. EAs don't run on Match-Trader, and sharing an EA with other traders is banned.
Challenges: two $100,000 accounts or their equivalent, such as four $50,000, scaling to $200,000 per account and $400,000 in total. Instant and Direct Funding: two $80,000 accounts or equivalents. One client profile per person, and accounts can't be merged. Copygram's public plans connect up to 5 trading accounts in total.
One direction only. A CTI master account may copy out to your personal account with any broker and to your accounts at other prop firms. Copying into a CTI account from another prop firm or from your personal account is not allowed.
Connect your accounts, set each one's size and limits, and run the copier in the cloud.
