Keep trading on your Windows PC, but stop depending on it to copy: the copier runs in the cloud.
Many futures copiers for Windows run as a desktop program or as an add-on inside a trading platform. They work, but the copier is only as reliable as the PC that hosts it. If Windows installs an update and restarts, if your internet drops, or if the platform crashes, copying stops while the leader keeps trading.
Signal Trade App is the other model. The copier runs on our servers and connects to your broker accounts directly. Your Windows PC is where you trade and where you look at the dashboard. It is not part of the copy path.
Windows traders usually pick a desktop copier for one of two reasons: they already use NinjaTrader, or they want something that runs close to their charting platform. Here is what changes with a cloud copier.
You can keep trading in NinjaTrader. Signal Trade App connects to the Tradovate or Rithmic account that NinjaTrader trades on, sees the leader orders at the broker, and copies them to your followers. The follower accounts do not need to be on the same platform or the same broker as the leader. A leader on one Rithmic account can feed Tradovate followers in the same group.
The copier is not a NinjaTrader add-on, so it does not read your charts or strategies. It follows the orders on the account.
Open the site in Chrome or Edge, create an account, and connect your accounts on the connections page. Create a copy group, choose the leader, add followers, and set each follower's copy ratio as a whole number from 1 up. Then place a small test order on the leader and check it on each follower before you rely on it.
If you want to run a strategy from TradingView on the same PC, point its alerts to your webhook. The order then goes to your leader account and is copied as usual.
The risk page lets you track each account's max drawdown and profit target with alerts, and lock accounts during sessions you choose. It also has a Daily P&L Lock: set your own daily loss limit or profit target on Tradovate and Rithmic accounts and Signal Trade App flattens and locks the account until 6:00 PM ET. Your prop firm enforces its own limit at the broker, and the firm's rule is what ends an evaluation. Signal Trade App does not connect to Topstep or TopstepX (ProjectX) accounts.
The question to ask of any copier is what has to stay on for it to keep working. For a desktop copier it is your PC, your internet and your platform. For Signal Trade App it is our servers.
Signal Trade App costs $29/month. The 5-day trial requires a card. If you would rather run it yourself, the self-hosted version is a $599 one-time purchase. Order routing is under 50ms on Tradovate and under 5ms on Rithmic.
Any current version of Windows with a recent Chrome, Edge or Firefox. There is nothing to install.
No. Copy groups run in the cloud, so they keep running when your PC is off, asleep or restarting.
No. A VPS is only needed if you host the copier yourself. The hosted service handles that for you.
No. It connects to your Tradovate or Rithmic account at the broker, so you can trade from NinjaTrader or any other platform and the orders are copied.
Yes. There is a self-hosted version for $599 one-time, which you run with Docker on your own server.
Yes, between Tradovate and Rithmic accounts in the same group.
$29/month. The 5-day trial requires a card.