What Is Copy Trading in Prop Firm Challenges?

Copy trading is when trades from one account are automatically duplicated (mirrored) into another account. In the prop firm world, traders sometimes try to pass multiple challenges by copying the same trades across several accounts.

How Copy Trading Works

You have a “master” account where you place trades normally.
Software or a trade copier instantly sends the same entries, stops, and take profits to “slave” accounts.

Why Some Firms Ban Copy Trading

It can be abused to multiply risk across many funded accounts at once.
It may create identical exposure across many traders, which is dangerous for the firm.
It allows account flipping for resale, which most firms forbid.

When “Copy Trading: Yes” Helps You

If copy trading is allowed, you can manage multiple evaluations or funded accounts more easily and keep strategies consistent without manual execution on each account.

Key Takeaway

Copy trading permission tells you whether you’re allowed to mirror trades between accounts. If you plan to scale across multiple challenges, choose a firm that allows it.