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Trade Copying & Team Trading : What’s Allowed & What’s Not

Restrictions on collaborative and mirror trading.

Updated over 3 weeks ago

Summary

MegaTrader encourages individual performance and fair competition. For this reason, we have strict rules around trade copying, shared strategies, and team-based trading to ensure that every trader earns their results independently.


What Is Trade Copying?

Trade copying involves using software, platforms, or manual processes to replicate trades across multiple accounts—either your own or others’.

This includes:

  • API tools that mirror trades

  • Copy-trading services

  • Manually entering the same trade on multiple accounts simultaneously

Trade copying is not allowed at MegaTrader under any circumstance.


What Is Team Trading?

Team trading refers to a group of individuals sharing the same strategy, entries, or account control to pass challenges or operate funded accounts.

Examples of prohibited team trading behavior:

  • Two users coordinating and placing identical trades

  • One trader logging into multiple accounts for different people

  • Friends or colleagues running the same tradebook across different accounts


Why It’s Not Allowed

These practices violate the spirit of fair, individual trading and introduce systemic risk to the MegaTrader ecosystem. We prohibit trade copying and team trading because they:

  • Undermine the evaluation model

  • Create artificial performance data

  • May be used to pass multiple accounts unfairly


Monitoring & Enforcement

MegaTrader uses proprietary monitoring systems to detect:

  • Simultaneous entries across accounts

  • Shared logins or devices

  • Pattern-matching trade behavior

Violations may lead to:

  • Account disqualification

  • Loss of funded status

  • Platform bans for repeat offenses


Allowed Collaboration

You may discuss ideas and strategies with other traders, but execution must be your own.

  • Educational resources and mentorship are acceptable

  • Copying execution or syncing trades is not


Need Help?

If you’re unsure whether your setup violates these policies, contact [email protected] or chat with us live for clarification.

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