The TradingView to MT5 Trade Copier Gets Its Own Page
Hey, Gabriel here, and I'm happy to announce some great news today! When we shipped the trade copier in 0.0.9, it lived in a corner of the Licenses page: a Copier ID, a list of checkboxes, and a multiplier next to each. That was the right size for what it did on day one. It stopped being the right size almost immediately, because the people who picked it up ran it harder than we expected, across more accounts than we expected, and kept telling us what a copier managing real money at that scale was missing.
So the copier moved out. It now has its own page in the dashboard, and on that page it grew into something closer to a control room for every account you trade. This post walks through what a TradingView to MT5 trade copier does in the first place, what the new page adds, and how people are actually using it.
What the trade copier does#
The idea has not changed. A copier gives you a Copier ID in the same format as a license key, and you put it in your TradingView alert exactly where the license key normally goes. Same CSV or JSON alert, same parameters, nothing new to learn. When that alert arrives, every license you attached to the copier receives it at the same moment, scaled by its own lot multiplier. It is the simplest way to copy TradingView alerts to multiple MT5 accounts at once.
That means you only need to send one alert instead of one per account. If you run a strategy across a live account, a demo, and two prop-firm challenges, you maintain a single alert in TradingView and the copier handles the fan-out server-side at the same sub-25 millisecond median as everything else.
The Trade Copier page. Two copiers running side by side, with the live fleet view above the configuration.
A few properties carry over from the original release and still matter:
- Everything fans out. Entries, closes, cancels, delayed alerts, EA control commands.
- A copier never trades on its own. It has no EA and holds no positions. It is purely an address that copies your alert to multiple accounts.
- It costs you nothing extra. A copier does not take up a license slot and is included with the Pro and Premium plans, as well as custom plans.
- It can be protected. Signal authentication works on a copier the same way it works on a license: one password, checked once at the copier, with the option to require it on the attached licenses too.
The multiplier is a risk knob, not a size knob#
Each license attached to a copier carries its own lot multiplier, anywhere from 0.001x to 1000x, with quick presets at 0.5x, 1x, and 2x. The multiplier scales every sizing mode, including the percentage-based ones, and that choice is deliberate. Set your tightest account to 0.5x and every alert it receives carries half the risk, however your entries are sized.
The screenshot above shows why it's been built that way. In that fleet, a 200K funded account takes 0.4 lots of gold while a 10K evaluation takes 0.02, off the same alert. Without the multiplier, the 10K account would take the full 0.4, twenty times more than the account can carry, and the challenge would be over by lunch.
One more decision worth knowing about: when a scaled value lands outside what a broker accepts, we clamp it to the nearest valid value and warn you, rather than dropping the trade. Dropping an alert would lead to a silent position mismatch between accounts, and you would only find out when the close arrives for a position that was never opened.
What the new page adds#
The copier was visibly cramped where it was, but the move was about more than elbow room. Configuring a copier and operating one are different jobs, and the old widget only did the first. Here is what the new page brings.
A live fleet view. Each copier now has a cockpit above its configuration: total balance, total equity, open PnL, and day PnL across the fleet, with every open position grouped by license underneath. Balance and equity de-duplicate accounts, so two licenses pointing at the same MT5 account do not count its money twice. If an EA goes offline, its license is flagged right there in the table.
Per-account pause. Every attached license has a switch. Flip it off and that account stops receiving copies while keeping its multiplier and its place in the list, so bringing it back is one click, not a reconfiguration. Larger fleets get Pause all and Resume all, plus search and sorting once the list grows past what fits in your head.
An emergency exit. The cockpit has a per-license close button, and above it a Flatten all button that closes every open position, cancels every pending order, and purges queued delayed alerts across the whole fleet. Because of the destructive nature of that action, you'll need to type FLATTEN to execute it, thus preventing you from clicking on it and closing positions by accident.
The configuration section: each copier has its own Copier ID, target list, per-account multipliers, and pause switches.
Copy trades across prop firm accounts#
Prop firm trading is what the copier gets used for the most and it's where most of the feedback that shaped this page came from.
Say you have a strategy that works and you want it on more capital than one account holds. You run evaluations at several firms at once and keep the funded accounts you pass. Before long, one strategy has to reach six accounts, each with its own size and its own drawdown rules. Done by hand, that is six alerts to keep in sync, and the day one of them goes stale, a 10K evaluation gets sized like a 200K funded account.
With a copier, the strategy fires one alert. Each account's multiplier translates it into the size that account's rules allow, and the drawdown protection you configured per license stays in charge of its own account. Always check your firm's terms on copying between your own accounts first; most allow it for personal accounts, but the rules differ by firm and change often. Our prop firm guides note what each firm permits.
Your own accounts too#
The same mechanics work outside prop firms. Some patterns we see:
- Live plus demo. Run the strategy on a live account at 1x and a demo at the same size, so you always have a clean control group when something looks off.
- Same strategy, different brokers. Spread one strategy across accounts at two or three brokers, sized per account, without maintaining parallel alerts.
- Scaling in confidence. Start a new strategy on a small account at 1x, attach the bigger account at 0.25x, and turn the dial up as the strategy proves itself. No Pine Script changes, just a multiplier.
- Multi-platform trading. Fan one alert out to accounts on different platforms, like MT5, cTrader, DXtrade and more, each still sized by its own multiplier (cTrader support is coming to PineHook soon).
Run several copiers for several jobs#
You are not limited to one copier. Each one is its own Copier ID with its own target list, so each strategy or account cluster gets its own, and they all live side by side on the same page.
In the screenshots above, that account runs two: a "Prop Firm Fleet" copier feeding six prop accounts, and a "Micro Futures Personal" copier feeding three personal accounts. The same license can sit in both with a different multiplier in each. When your evaluations pass, pause the evaluation cluster and let the funded cluster keep trading. When you want to try a new strategy, give it its own copier instead of threading it through an existing one.
FAQ#
Can one TradingView alert trade multiple MT5 accounts?
Yes. Put a PineHook Copier ID in your alert where the license key normally goes, and every MT5 account you attached receives that alert at the same moment. The fan-out happens on our servers at the sub-25 millisecond median we publish daily, so you can check the claim instead of taking our word for it.
Do prop firms allow trade copiers?
Most firms allow copying between accounts you personally own, and prohibit copying anyone else's trades or selling yours. The exact wording differs by firm and changes often, so read your firm's terms before you attach a funded account. Our prop firm guides quote what each firm permits, with sources.
How does each account take a different position size from the same alert?
Each attached license carries its own lot multiplier, from 0.001x to 1000x. It scales every sizing mode, percentage-based ones included. In the fleet shown above, a 200K funded account takes 0.4 lots of gold while a 10K evaluation takes 0.02, off one alert. And if a scaled value falls outside what a broker accepts, we clamp it to the nearest valid value and warn you rather than dropping the trade, so accounts never silently drift apart.
Does the copier cost extra or use up a license?
No. A copier does not take a license slot, and a copied alert counts once against your daily allowance no matter how many accounts it reaches. It is included with the Pro, Premium, and custom plans.
Included with Pro#
The Trade Copier is included with the Pro plan, which attaches up to 3 licenses per copier, and with Premium, which attaches up to 10. During the beta, every account is on a free Pro plan, so you can set a copier up today and see the fan-out in your Signal Logs a few milliseconds later.
Head to the Trade Copier entry in your dashboard sidebar to set one up. The copier guide walks through the page, and the trade copier reference covers the alert syntax, exactly which commands fan out, and what does and does not get scaled.
If you run the copier and something feels missing, tell us through the dashboard. The page you just read is mostly a list of things people asked for after running the first version for real, and we intend to keep building it that way.
Gabriel J., Co-founder
