Tradeify copy trading rules, 2026
Tradeify allows copiers and bots. It also asks you to prove the bot is yours, on video, and to keep it at Tradeify.
Read from Tradeify’s help center on 5 October 2026.
We are a competing prop firm, so read our comparison at the end with that in mind. Everything before it is Tradeify’s own documentation, linked at the bottom.
Yes, Tradeify allows copy trading, but only between accounts you personally own and manage, up to 5 funded accounts per household. Bots are allowed too, if you can prove you are their sole owner and you do not run them at other firms. Hedging is prohibited across accounts and correlated products, and on funded accounts, payouts depend on holding most trades longer than 10 seconds.
In short
- Copiers: allowed between your own accounts, same direction only. Tradovate Group Trading, the WealthCharts Trade Copier and Tradesea’s copier are built in.
- Limits: 5 Sim Funded accounts per person and per household. 15 Select evaluations per 30 days, Growth evaluations unlimited.
- Bots: allowed with proof of sole ownership and a live video of you enabling it, no use at other firms, no HFT.
- The 10-second rule: on funded accounts, over 50% of trades and of profit must come from trades longer than 10 seconds to request a payout.
- Hedging: never, across accounts or within a Product Group. Every account involved can be set to violation.
Does Tradeify allow copy trading?
Yes, and it says so in plain words. Tradeify’s trade copier guide opens its rules section with one paragraph that covers the whole policy:
Three conditions sit in that paragraph. The accounts must be yours, owned and managed. Copying to or from someone else’s accounts is strictly prohibited and may end in termination. And every copied account must trade the same direction: an inverted copier, or a lead account flattened while followers stay open, counts as hedging.
How many Tradeify accounts can you copy trade?
Five funded accounts at a time, and the five are counted per household, not just per person.
Tradeify’s own example: two people in the same household with 3 funded accounts each are over the limit. Failed or expired accounts do not count. Our guide on how many Tradeify accounts you can have covers the limits in detail.
The three built-in copiers
Tradeify documents three copiers inside its platforms, and two of them have a trap.
The two traps lead to the same place. A flatten that closes only the lead, or a copier that silently stopped at logout, leaves followers in positions the lead no longer holds, and the next trade on the lead can put them on opposite sides.
The bot passport: what Tradeify asks before it allows a bot
Tradeify allows bots and algorithms, under conditions it spells out, and those conditions read like a passport check:
The practical meaning: an off-the-shelf bot that others also run, or one you share with a group, fails the ownership test, and a bot you run on Tradeify and another firm at the same time breaks the exclusive use rule. A bot you wrote yourself, running on your own Tradeify accounts, is what the policy describes.
One detail differs from Topstep. Tradeify’s FAQ says you cannot log in with a VPN or VPS, but after logging in normally, you may use a VPS for trading at your own risk. Our Topstep copy trading guide shows the stricter version.
The 10-second rule that holds payouts
On funded accounts, Tradeify measures how long your trades last before it pays.
To request a payout, over 50% of your trades must last longer than 10 seconds, and over 50% of your profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds. Miss either and the payout request is blocked; the account does not fail. Evaluations are exempt.
Tradeify’s stated reason is worth reading twice: it wants traders who can be called up to live “to eventually be copied by our own firm”, and trades under 10 seconds are hard to replicate. For a bot, check the distribution of hold times, not just the win rate, before the first payout request.
Hedges never: the rule a copier must not break
Tradeify prohibits opposing positions on the same instrument or on two products from the same Product Group, in one account or across all your accounts, on evaluations, Sim Funded and Elite Live alike.
The Equity Index group alone covers ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, YM, MYM, RTY, M2K, EMD and NKD, plus the Eurex index futures FDAX, FDXM, FDXS, FESX, FSXE and FXXP. The rule also covers accounts held by other people at your direction, and a failed account trading against an active one can trigger the alert.
Detection is automatic. An account is breached by the automated check when opposing positions last more than 10 seconds and the hedge earns more than $150; cross-account and correlated hedges are reviewed by the risk team. Consequences include disqualification of an evaluation, payout denial, every account involved set to violation, forfeiture of the profits made during the violating period, and a permanent ban for deliberate or repeated cases.
Other traders and other firms
Your copier stays inside your own accounts. Tradeify’s Risk and Compliance FAQ lists what it treats as prohibited coordination: team or collaborative trading, one trader directing another’s decisions, third-party account management, prohibited trade-copying and synchronized trading.
Other firms are addressed for bots only, and clearly: a bot cannot be used across multiple firms. For manual copying of your own trades to another firm, Tradeify’s help center says nothing either way. Ask Tradeify before you build around it.
MyFundedFutures draws the same line on other traders and goes further on devices: two traders, even partners, may not share a PC or a phone. Our MyFundedFutures copy trading rules compare.
What happens to the grid at Elite Live
Tradeify’s live step is a selection, and it is mandatory once made. A trader becomes eligible for consideration after 3 payouts on one account or 10 in total; Tradeify then decides, and once selected, the transition cannot be declined.
- Up to 5 live accounts: each funded account with at least one payout becomes its own Elite Live account.
- Everything else closes: all Sim Funded and evaluation accounts close at the transition, and no one in the household can hold Sim accounts while a Live account is active.
- Copiers and bots on Elite Live: the Elite Live page says nothing specific. The hedging rule does apply to Elite Live, so a copied grid there must still trade one direction.
Our Tradeify live account guide covers the transition and the payout terms.
Tradeify vs Phidias on copy trading
Tradeify has one of the clearest bot policies in the industry and two copiers built into its platforms. The differences are account count and the path to live.
On account count, we allow more: up to 15 CASH accounts across three families, where 150K Fundamental and Premium accounts count double, against Tradeify’s 5. On live accounts, Tradeify is ahead: up to 5 Elite Live accounts, where a Phidias trader holds one LIVE account.
On the path to live, the mechanics differ. On Express to Live, you reach the target on the CASH account, click Switch to Live, and the fixed bonus payout converts the account to a LIVE account. That conversion is an Express to Live rule; on our Fundamental and Premium accounts, moving to LIVE is discretionary. If you copy trade on Phidias, our DeepCharts trade copier guide walks through the setup.
See Phidias accounts and pricing
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Tradeify copy trading: frequently asked questions
Does Tradeify allow copy trading?
Yes, between accounts you personally own and manage. Tradeify’s help center states that copy trading, using a trade copier or any method, is allowed, but copying trades from or to accounts owned by other people is strictly prohibited. All copied accounts must trade in the same direction.
How many Tradeify accounts can you copy trade?
Up to 5 Sim Funded accounts at a time, per person and per household, in any mix of Growth, Select and Lightning. Evaluations are separate: up to 15 Select evaluations per 30 days and unlimited Growth evaluations, and passed evaluations can be held until a funded slot opens.
Does Tradeify allow bots and algorithmic trading?
Yes, under conditions. You must be able to prove you are the sole owner of the bot, Tradeify scans for similar orders on other accounts and will require a live video of you enabling the code on your own PC, the bot cannot be used across multiple firms, and high-frequency trading bots are not allowed.
Can I use a VPS for a bot on Tradeify?
Tradeify’s FAQ says you cannot log in with a VPN or VPS, but after logging in normally you may use a VPS for trading at your own risk.
What is Tradeify’s 10-second rule?
On funded accounts, to request a payout, over 50% of your trades must last longer than 10 seconds and over 50% of your profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds. If you miss either, you cannot request a payout, but the account does not fail. The rule does not apply during an evaluation.
What counts as hedging at Tradeify?
Opposing positions on the same instrument or on two products from the same Product Group, in one account or across your accounts. Long ES on one account and short NQ on another is a violation, as is long MES against short NQ. A copier set to invert direction, or a lead account flattened while followers stay open, also creates a hedging violation.
What happens if you hedge at Tradeify?
Every account involved can be set to violation status, profits generated during the violating period are forfeited, and deliberate or repeated violations can lead to a permanent ban. Evaluations can be disqualified and payouts denied. Tradeify’s automated check breaches an account when opposing positions last more than 10 seconds and the hedge earns more than $150; cross-account hedging is reviewed by its risk team.
Can you copy trade Tradeify with another prop firm?
For bots, no: Tradeify states that using a bot across multiple firms is against its policy. For manual copying, its help center does not address copying your own trades to another firm, so ask Tradeify before setting it up. Copying with other people is prohibited in all cases.
How does Phidias compare on copy trading?
Phidias allows copy trading within its account limits: up to 5 CASH Premium, 5 CASH Fundamental and 5 Express to Live accounts per person, company or internet connection, with third-party copier software at your own risk. On Express to Live, the payout at the target converts the account to a LIVE account.
Related guides
Read it yourself
- Tradeify: WealthCharts Order Entry and Trade Copier (copy trading rules)
- Tradeify: Tradovate Order Entry and Copy Trading (Group Trading)
- Tradeify: Guidelines for Traders (bots, microscalping)
- Tradeify: Hedging and Correlated Products
- Tradeify: Account limits
- Tradeify: Risk and Compliance Guidelines FAQ
- Tradeify: Elite Program
- Phidias rules (account limits and copy trading)
The verdict
“Tradeify writes its bot rules the way a border writes visa rules: allowed, if you can show it is yours. Copy only your own accounts, keep every account on the same side, hold your trades past ten seconds, and keep your bot at one firm. Do that and Tradeify is one of the easier places to run a copier.”
William G., CMO at Phidias Propfirm
