Copy trading at a prop firm means mirroring orders from one account onto others automatically, through a trade copier or an EA. Firms that permit it nearly always confine it to a narrow case: accounts you own yourself, opened in your name and cleared by the same identity check. Running a purchased signal, an external provider or another trader’s fills is a different practice, and it is banned almost everywhere under account-sharing clauses. Three terms decide what you can actually do: the combined allocation cap across every account you hold, whether EAs and VPS hosting are explicitly allowed, and how correlated accounts are treated during payout review.
Our ranking keeps firms whose terms permit copying between personally owned accounts without ambiguity, then sorts on payment reliability, allocation ceiling and how clearly the execution rules are written.
Coming in at number 1, FTMO has been operating since 2015 and scores 88/100 on our scale. Entry starts at €79 for a 1-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on mt4, mt5, ctrader, dxtrade, tradingview.
Founded in Prague in 2015, FTMO reports more than $450 million paid to traders and closed its acquisition of broker OANDA in December 2025. The 2-Step challenge, static drawdown and no deadline, remains its core product, with fees fully refunded on the first payout. Price is the weak spot, and it rose again in 2026.
Ranked 2 on this list, The5ers has been operating since 2016 and scores 86/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $39 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 5 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule. Available on mt5, ctrader, tradingview.
Founded in Israel in 2016, The5ers is one of the oldest forex prop firms still operating. Its strongest asset is the rulebook: static drawdown across every program, no time limit and no consistency rule. The tradable universe stays narrow, though — forex, indices, metals and futures, with no crypto and no equities.
In third place, FundedNext has been operating since 2022 and scores 85/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $59.99 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 5 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 95 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 5 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, expert advisors allowed. Available on mt4, mt5, ctrader, match-trader.
On the forex and CFD side, FundedNext runs just two routes: Stellar 1-Step (10% target, 6% max loss) and Stellar 2-Step (8% then 5%, 10% max loss). Both use static drawdown, carry no deadline and come with refundable fees. Pricing is on the high side, and the headline 95% split needs a paid option — the contractual base is 80%.
In 4th place, City Traders Imperium has been operating since 2018 and scores 83/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $29 on an instantly funded account. The risk envelope is a trailing intraday drawdown capped at 6 %. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 7 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, match-trader.
City Traders Imperium has funded forex traders since 2018 through four routes — 1-Step, 2-Step, Instant Funding and Direct Funding — with no time limit and entry from $29. The profit split starts at 80% and can reach 100%, but the 1-Step allows only 5% trailing drawdown and every trade must carry a stop loss.
In 5th place, FundingPips has been operating since 2022 and scores 83/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $29 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 6 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 7 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit. Available on mt5, ctrader, match-trader.
FundingPips lets you choose the withdrawal rhythm and prices the split accordingly: 60% weekly, 80% biweekly, 90% on demand, 100% on a monthly cycle. Its four evaluation models keep static drawdown, with only the instant-funding Zero account switching to trailing. Against that, a Striking System closes a funded account on the fourth warning.
In 6th place, Bulenox has been operating since 2022 and scores 81/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $145 for a 1-phase evaluation. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 10 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on ninjatrader, rithmic, quantower.
Bulenox is a futures-only firm run from Delaware since 2022. Accounts are sold as renewable monthly subscriptions, $145 to $325 for $25,000 to $150,000, payouts clear every Wednesday, and the first $10,000 goes entirely to the trader. It holds 4.7/5 across 1,761 Trustpilot reviews, but a 40% consistency rule gates withdrawals and drives recurring complaints.
Coming in at number 7, Alpha Capital Group has been operating since 2021 and scores 80/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $27 for a 1-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a trailing (end of day) drawdown capped at 4 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, dxtrade, tradelocker.
Alpha Capital Group is a UK forex prop firm registered in 2021, running eight programs that span a $27 two-phase challenge through to accounts funded at purchase. The rulebook is permissive — news, weekend and overnight holding allowed, four platforms — but the tradable universe stops at forex, indices and metals, and Trustpilot has suspended the rating over fake reviews.
Ranked 8 on this list, Funded Trading Plus has been operating since 2021 and scores 80/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $89 for a 1-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a trailing intraday drawdown capped at 6 %, with 4 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, dxtrade, match-trader.
A London firm founded in late 2021 and bought by Instant Funding in May 2026, Funded Trading Plus pays every 7 days on its 1-Step Express and Instant programs, with the split rising from 80 to 100% and scaling up to $5 million. The catch: intraday trailing drawdown on both, and a Trustpilot score the platform has pulled.
Coming in at number 9, My Funded Futures has been operating since 2023 and scores 80/100 on our scale. The risk envelope is a trailing (end of day) drawdown capped at 4 %. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 1 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on ninjatrader, tradovate, tradingview, quantower, volumetrica.
Launched in late 2023 in Delaware, My Funded Futures posts the highest customer satisfaction in our futures database, at 4.9/5 across more than 21,000 reviews. Its four plans share a 6 % target and an end-of-day trailing drawdown that locks above the starting balance. The notable trade-off: over 80 countries are excluded.
Ranked 10 on this list, TradeDay has been operating since 2020 and scores 80/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $131 for a 1-phase evaluation. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 0 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on tradovate, rithmic, ninjatrader, tradingview.
TradeDay was founded in Chicago in 2020 by two former institutional market professionals, and that background shows in the rulebook: no daily loss limit, news trading and scalping allowed, and withdrawals available from day one. The May 2026 rework dropped static drawdown accounts in favour of two paths, Quick Pay and Fast Pass.
The first is internal duplication: one master account, several secondary accounts, all held by the same person. This is the case most firms accept, sometimes without mentioning it anywhere on the sales page. The second is running an external signal, free or paid, on an evaluation or funded account, which terms and conditions almost always list among prohibited practices, alongside letting a third party trade for you. The third is managing money for other people, which is not copy trading at all but a separate product where a firm offers one. Establishing which of the three a firm accepts removes most of the disputes that surface later.
What the risk desk reads in your trade log
Risk teams compare timestamps, direction and size across accounts. Identical fills within milliseconds on accounts registered to different identities trigger a review, and a shared IP address or VPS is enough to establish the link. Two practices account for most terminations. Cross-account hedging first: opening opposite positions on two evaluations so that one is bound to pass, treated as an attempt to exploit the model and closed out with no refund. Group trading second, where several traders coordinate entries around the same macro release and produce correlated exposure the firm has to hedge. These checks rarely happen at purchase or during the challenge. They happen at the withdrawal request, when the full history is audited, so an account can run for weeks before a clause is raised against it.
When running several accounts still makes sense
The defensible use of copying is carrying one proven strategy across several accounts to raise total capital, or spreading that capital over more than one firm to limit exposure to a single counterparty. Both assume a stable method, risk managed at portfolio level rather than account by account, and acceptance of a structural weakness: a bad run hits every account at once, because they all execute the same thing. Copier latency adds a price gap between master and followers, sometimes wide enough for one account to breach a daily loss limit the master avoided. For a trader still searching for an edge, duplication only multiplies the cost of an unvalidated system.
Frequently asked questions
Can I copy trades between several accounts at the same prop firm?
In most cases yes, provided every account is held by you and registered under the same verified identity. A combined allocation cap usually applies across all of them. The rule sits in the terms and conditions rather than on the sales page, so it is worth getting written confirmation from support before buying a second account.
Is copying a signal provider allowed?
Almost never. Running someone else's orders on an evaluation or funded account counts as account sharing: the firm funds an identified trader, not a subscription. The standard outcome is account closure with profits voided, and it is applied at the withdrawal request, when the trade history is reviewed in full rather than sampled.
What is the difference between copy trading, an EA and a trade copier?
An EA executes an automated strategy on one account. A trade copier mirrors orders already placed elsewhere onto other accounts. Copy trading means using the second, often alongside the first. A firm can allow EAs while banning cross-account copying, or the reverse, so treat them as two separate clauses and check both.
Why do prop firms monitor copying between different traders?
Because accounts executing the same trades at the same moment create correlated exposure on the firm's book, and because coordination is sometimes used to game the rules through cross-account hedging or serial challenge passing. Detecting those patterns is risk management rather than boilerplate, which is why the checks are systematic at payout time.
Can I use a VPS to copy my own accounts?
Usually yes, but shared hosting gives several accounts a common IP address, which triggers verification when the identities differ. On accounts you own personally this is normally resolved once explained. Telling support you use a VPS before the first withdrawal request avoids an administrative hold at the worst possible moment.