How to copy trades from one master to many accounts
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One master and many followers is the most common copy setup: a trader with several accounts of their own, a money manager with client accounts, or a signal provider with a community. The trades are the same for all of them; what differs is each account’s size, broker and risk.
SnapCopier copies a master to any number of followers, on MT4 and MT5 and at any brokers. This guide shows how to connect the followers and how to keep their settings manageable as their number grows.
Three ways to connect the followers
| Way | Who enters the login | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Add them one by one | You | A few accounts of your own |
| Bulk import | You, as a pasted list or a CSV file | Dozens of accounts whose logins you already manage |
| Invite link | Each follower, in their own account | Followers whose passwords you should not hold |
The three can be mixed on one master. Adding many accounts at once walks through the bulk import.
Invite links for followers
Each master can have one private invite link. A follower who opens it signs up, connects their own account and starts copying. You never see their login or password, and they see the name and description you give the link, not your account’s login, server or balance.
- Your settings or theirs. You decide whether followers may change the sizing and the other settings, or must copy exactly with yours.
- Each follower’s lot. In the follower list you can put a follower in a group or give them a lot of their own. If followers may change their settings, a follower’s own choice wins. See copy trading for signal providers.
- Stop accepting. The link can stay visible but take no new followers.
- A new link. Asking for a new link ends the old one; the followers who already joined stay.
- Pause a follower in one click, for example when a subscription is overdue. You choose what happens to their open copies: still managed, handed over to them, or closed. The follower cannot lift the pause themselves.
Set the settings once, not on every follower
With many followers, the settings decide how much work each change is. The settings are inherited field by field:
- 1The master’s defaults apply to every follower: lot rule, limits, symbol mapping, filters, stop loss and take profit.
- 2A group overrides some of them for its members, for example a conservative and an aggressive tier with different multipliers.
- 3One invited follower can get settings of their own from you, in the follower list. They come before the group.
- 4A single follower can override a field for itself, such as a maximum lot for a small account. On a follower who joined by invite link this only works while you allow custom settings, and then their choice wins over yours.
A change to a default reaches every follower that has not set that field itself, so a new symbol mapping on the master is made once, not once per account.
Different account sizes, the same risk
With the default lot rule, each follower’s lot is the master’s lot times the follower’s balance divided by the master’s. A $10,000 master trading 1.00 lot gives a $2,500 follower 0.25 lot and a $500 follower 0.05 lot, so every account risks the same share of its balance.
- Small accounts can fall below the broker’s minimum lot. Choose per follower whether such a trade opens at the minimum or is skipped.
- Different currencies and cent accounts are converted before the comparison. See how lot sizes are calculated.
- A maximum lot caps any follower, whatever the master trades.
Keeping an eye on many accounts
- The dashboard shows each account’s status and open copies live.
- The copy log shows every copy, every skipped trade and its reason, per follower.
- Speed across accounts. Each follower is copied on its own, so a slow broker on one account does not hold up the others.
Questions
Do followers who join by invite link see my account?
No. They see the name and description you give the link and the copies on their own account, not your login, server or balance.
Can the followers be on different platforms and brokers?
Yes. One master can copy to MT4 and MT5 followers at any brokers at the same time.
Can I give each follower a different lot size?
Yes. Your own accounts each have their own settings. Followers who joined by invite link can be put in groups, or given a lot of their own in your follower list, which comes before the group. If you allow custom settings, a follower’s own choice comes before both. See copy trading for signal providers.
Can a follower copy more than one master?
Yes. A follower can follow several masters at once; each link has its own settings.
Try it with your own accounts
Connect a master and a follower and watch the first copy appear in the log.
Join the free betaMore guides
- Copy trading for signal providersShare your MT4 or MT5 trades with followers through an invite link, and set each follower’s lot size or risk tier without their passwords.
- Adding many accounts at onceConnect dozens of MT4 and MT5 follower accounts in one go: paste a list or load a CSV, check it, import it, and link every new account to a master.
- Lot sizing when copying tradesBalance ratio, equity ratio, multiplier or fixed lot: how a trade copier sizes each follower’s trade, with worked examples, rounding and margin protection.
- Is a trade copier safe?What a trade copier can and cannot do with an MT4 or MT5 login: investor vs trading password, how logins are stored, and what to check before you connect.