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Signal Trade App is a trade copier and risk management platform built for futures traders. Connect your prop firm and broker accounts, create copy-trading groups, and execute trades across all accounts simultaneously — with built-in risk controls and a trading journal.
Click "Sign Up Free" on the homepage, enter your email and password, and verify your email. You can start connecting broker accounts immediately.
We offer a 5-day free trial with every feature unlocked. A credit card is required to start, but you are not charged until the trial ends and you can cancel anytime. After the trial, Pro is $29/month. A $599 self-hosted lifetime license is also available.
We support Tradovate and Rithmic accounts, including NinjaTrader accounts that run on them. That covers prop firms such as Apex Trader Funding, Take Profit Trader, Lucid Trading and MyFundedFutures. We do not connect to Topstep’s TopstepX (ProjectX) platform.
Signal Trade App supports all CME and CBOT futures including NQ, MNQ, ES, MES, YM, MYM, RTY, M2K, GC, MGC, CL, NG, ZB, and more. As long as your broker offers the symbol, our copier can replicate it across all connected accounts.
Yes. Signal Trade App is a responsive web app that works on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux. You can manage copy groups, view positions, and monitor P&L from any device with a browser.
Trades are copied via WebSocket in milliseconds. The exact latency depends on your broker, but most copies execute within 50ms of the leader account fill.
Market, limit and stop orders copy to follower accounts when they fill. Bracket orders work too: followers enter when the leader's entry fills and exit when its take-profit or stop-loss fills. Followers have no stop of their own; if the leader can't be reached, manage followers in your broker platform. To move your stop to breakeven from an alert, send {"action":"breakeven","symbol":"MNQ1!"}. For multiple take-profits, send a second alert after the entry: {"action":"protect","symbol":"MNQ1!","sl":[19900],"tp":[20050,20100],"beAfterTp1":true} splits the position evenly across the targets and moves the stop to entry when TP1 fills (requires Managed protection on in Settings → Trading). Trailing stops are set on the /chart page, not from a webhook.
Yes. As long as both accounts are connected to Signal Trade App, trades can be copied across any supported broker combination — NinjaTrader to Tradovate, Rithmic (e.g. Apex) to Tradovate, Tradovate to Rithmic, and so on.
Yes. Signal Trade App is a responsive web app that works on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. You can manage copy groups, view positions, and monitor P&L from any device.
Yes. Each follower has its own copy ratio — a whole number such as 1x, 2x or 3x — so a follower can trade the same size as the leader or a multiple of it. To copy at a smaller size, copy onto a micro contract account (e.g. MNQ instead of NQ).
Every follower account has its own limits, set by its prop firm or broker — not by Signal Trade App. The common ones: a maximum number of contracts (usually by account size — a 50K account often allows fewer contracts than a 150K), daily loss and drawdown limits (after which the account may be locked or allowed to close only), and allowed products, trading hours or news rules. If a copied order would break a limit, the broker rejects it and that follower no longer matches its leader — you get a 'Copy failed' or 'Copy skipped' email. Check that follower in your broker right away: when an entry was rejected, a later copied close can leave the follower holding a position the leader does not have. To avoid it, copy between accounts of the same size, keep the leader's size within every follower's limit, or trade micros (e.g. MNQ instead of NQ).
Follower protection is optional and off by default. Without it, the follower copies every leader order — including the one that closes the trade — so it goes flat together with the leader. When enabled, it also closes anything the follower is still holding after the leader goes flat. Turn it on only if nothing else (manual orders, another tool) trades that follower account.
Yes. You can send TradingView alerts via webhook to Signal Trade App. When your Pine Script strategy fires, we receive the signal and instantly copy the trade to all connected accounts.
No. Signal Trade App is fully cloud-based. Your copy groups operate 24/7 even when your local machine is off, so you never miss a trade.
Every paid plan copies one trade to unlimited follower accounts simultaneously. There is no free plan — the 5-day trial requires a card, then Pro is $29/month.
On the Risk Mgmt page, open an account and set a Daily loss limit under Account Lockout (for example $500), choose what counts (net realized plus open, realized only, or open only), and save. When the account's P&L reaches the limit, Signal Trade App closes all positions, cancels orders and locks the account until the next session opens at 6:00 PM ET. A locked account receives no copies, and the lock cannot be removed or raised until then. Available on Tradovate and Rithmic accounts. Your prop firm still enforces its own limit at the broker.
Yes. The optional Daily profit target on the Risk Mgmt page works like the loss limit: when the account's P&L reaches it, Signal Trade App closes all positions and locks the account until 6:00 PM ET so you cannot give gains back. Available on Tradovate and Rithmic accounts.
Trailing max drawdown tracks your peak P&L for the day and locks the account if you fall from that peak by a specified amount. This protects against giving back profits.
Yes. Risk settings include a max opening order quantity to prevent accidental oversized entries.
Go to Connections, click "Add Connection", select Tradovate, enter your credentials, and choose Live, Demo, or Eval environment. Your accounts will sync automatically.
Go to Connections, click "Add Connection", select NinjaTrader, enter your credentials, and choose your environment (Live or Sim).
Yes. A single broker connection can sync multiple sub-accounts (e.g., multiple Tradovate accounts or multiple NinjaTrader accounts).
Yes. Broker credentials are encrypted at rest using AES-256 and are never logged or exposed. We only store the minimum required to maintain your connection.
Yes. All closed trades from your connected accounts are automatically imported into the trading journal with symbol, side, entry/exit prices, P&L, fees, and timestamps.
Yes. You can export your trade history to CSV for any date range, filtered by symbol, side, and account.
The dashboard shows total P&L, win rate, profit factor, max drawdown, Sharpe ratio, expectancy, average trade, best/worst trades, long vs short win rates, and more.