FFUNDED Copy Trading and Multi-Account Rules

Copy trading is permitted at FFUNDED in one specific shape and prohibited in several others. The rule is not about the software you use; it is about whose decisions are being executed and on whose accounts.

What is allowed

Copying trades between your own FFUNDED accounts is allowed. If you hold several accounts in your own name and you run a copier that mirrors your decisions across them, that is permitted behaviour, on every plan.

This matters because holding several accounts is itself allowed, up to the maximum allocation cap of $600,000 across all of your accounts together. The cap belongs to you rather than to a single account, so your accounts are added together against it.

Expert Advisors and automated strategies are also allowed on every plan. Automation is not the problem.

What is prohibited

Three things are not allowed:

Copying between accounts belonging to different traders. Your account must be traded by you. The person who passes the evaluation must be the person who trades the account and the person who is paid.

Mirroring a signal service or a third party account into your account. Buying signals and having them execute on your account is the same problem in a different wrapper: the decisions are not yours.

Group or coordinated trading arranged to reproduce the same result across many accounts. This is the organised version, where several traders run identical activity to multiply a single edge across a book of accounts.

The published threshold

Coordinated or mirrored trading is taken as present where more than 80% of buy and sell exposure on the same instrument overlaps with another trader's account, sustained across 5 or more trades.

Both halves of that sentence do work. A single coincidental overlap on a popular pair proves nothing and is not enough. Sustained overlap above 80% across at least five trades is the pattern the rule targets.

Where multi-account abuse sits alongside it

The related rule is Multi-Account Abuse, which prohibits using more than one identity. That covers opening or operating an account under another person's identity, creating additional identities to obtain extra accounts, promotions, discounts or resets, and splitting one strategy across accounts to work around a limit that applies to a single account.

The same 80% overlap across 5 or more trades applies where the accounts belong to different traders. One extra restriction is absolute: hedged or offsetting positions held across accounts are prohibited at any size. There is no threshold to stay under on that one.

A worked distinction

Two traders both long EURUSD on the same morning is not a violation, and the rule is built so that it cannot be. Popular instruments produce overlapping positions constantly.

Two accounts registered to different people, opening and closing the same instrument within seconds of each other, in the same direction and the same relative size, across five or more trades, with more than 80% of exposure matching, is the pattern. The rule is looking for a mechanical relationship rather than a coincidental one.

What happens if it fires

Copy trading violations follow the compliance path rather than the hard risk path. The first confirmed violation gives the account a Warning and trading continues. A repeated confirmed violation breaches the account.

Serious abuse is the exception. Coordinated activity across accounts, along with fraud and identity abuse, can end an account and any account connected to it immediately, without a warning step.

If you run several accounts legitimately, the useful safeguard is to keep them yours in fact and not just on paper: your decisions, your device, your name on every account. The warning and breach system explains how the ladder works, and the full text sits in the trading rules.

Frequently asked questions

Can I copy trades between my own FFUNDED accounts?

Yes. Copying between accounts you own is explicitly allowed on every plan, and so are Expert Advisors and automated strategies. Your accounts are added together against the $600,000 maximum allocation cap, which belongs to you rather than to a single account.

Can I use a signal service on my FFUNDED account?

No. Mirroring a signal service or a third party account into your account is prohibited, because the account must be traded by you. The person who passes the evaluation must be the person who trades it and the person who is paid.

What overlap counts as coordinated trading?

More than 80% of buy and sell exposure on the same instrument overlapping with another trader's account, sustained across 5 or more trades. A single coincidental overlap is not enough, which is deliberate, since popular instruments produce matching positions naturally.

Can I hedge across two of my own accounts?

No. Hedged or offsetting positions held across accounts are prohibited at any size, with no threshold to stay under. This sits under Multi-Account Abuse, which also prohibits splitting one strategy across accounts to work around a single account limit.