TradeCloner is a NinjaTrader trade copier for traders who run several prop firm accounts. NinjaTrader accounts connect through the Tradovate sign-in. You trade one account, your Master, and TradeCloner copies its trades in real time to your follower accounts. The copying runs in the cloud, not inside NinjaTrader, so your PC does not need to stay on.
Which NinjaTrader accounts this covers
- Accounts that sign in with a Tradovate login. These connect directly. In TradeCloner you choose NinjaTrader when you add a connection and authorize through the Tradovate sign-in. The Tradovate connection guide covers the steps.
- Accounts your firm set up on Rithmic. Some prop firms run NinjaTrader on Rithmic and give you a separate Rithmic username and password. Connect those accounts through Rithmic instead. See the Rithmic trade copier page.
- Not covered: accounts that exist only inside the NinjaTrader desktop app on your computer, such as local simulation accounts.
No add-on to install
Many NinjaTrader copiers are add-ons that run inside NinjaTrader, so the platform and the computer it runs on have to stay up for copies to go out. TradeCloner works differently: it runs in the cloud, so there is nothing to install in NinjaTrader and your PC does not need to stay on. For the full comparison, read cloud vs local trade copier.
What gets copied
- Market, limit and stop orders. A market fill on the Master is copied to each follower, and a resting limit or stop is placed on each follower as a resting order.
- OCO brackets. Your take profit and stop loss pair is copied as a pair.
- Modifications and cancellations. Move a stop or target on the Master and the follower orders move with it. Cancel on the Master and the followers' orders are cancelled.
Not supported: stop-limit orders, trailing stops, multi-bracket orders, auto breakeven, and brackets sent through a TradingView webhook. See known limitations.
Size each account on its own terms
- Multiplier from 1 to 50. The follower trades the Master's size times its multiplier.
- Fixed contract count. The follower trades the same count every time.
- Max contracts cap. A per-follower ceiling, so a smaller account never takes more size than you allow.
- Cross Order. A follower can trade the micro of the contract your Master trades, or the reverse, across eight pairs (NQ and MNQ, ES and MES, YM and MYM, RTY and M2K, GC and MGC, CL and MCL, SI and SIL, HG and MHG). It changes the contract, not the count. See the mini to micro trade copier.
Protection that runs while you are away
- Follower Protection. When your Master goes flat, any follower still holding the copied position is closed.
- Daily profit target and daily loss limit, per account. A follower that breaches one is flattened and locked, so no more copies go to it. Locks reset at 5 PM ET, Monday to Friday. A Master that hits its limit is flattened but not locked.
- Blown-account detection. TradeCloner suspends copying to an account the broker has closed.
More in prop firm risk management.
Mix NinjaTrader with other platforms
A NinjaTrader account can be the Master for followers on Tradovate, ProjectX or Rithmic, or it can follow a Master on one of those platforms. One copy group is active at a time, with one Master. See the Tradovate trade copier page.
Your firm's rules come first. Prop firms set their own copy trading rules and change them often. Check your firm's current rules before you connect a copier.
Speed
TradeCloner's own processing adds well under 100 ms. The rest is the broker's order handling.
How it works
- Start your trial and add a NinjaTrader connection. Authorize through the Tradovate sign-in.
- Create a copy group. Choose your Master and add your followers.
- Set each follower's size. Multiplier or fixed contracts, a max-contracts cap, and Cross Order where an account should trade the other contract size.
- Turn on protection. Check that Follower Protection is on and set daily limits per account.
- Trade your Master. TradeCloner copies each order to every follower in the group.