Can you copy trade on TradeLocker, and what are the real limits?

Short answer: yes, but never from inside TradeLocker. The platform has no Expert Advisors, so every form of automation has to be driven from outside through its official API. Once you understand that one constraint, everything else about copying to TradeLocker follows from it.

Why TradeLocker cannot copy trades by itself

TradeLocker runs in a browser. There is no MQL4 or MQL5 runtime inside it, which means there is nowhere to install an Expert Advisor. On MetaTrader, a copier is simply an EA sitting on a chart; on TradeLocker there is no equivalent place to put one.

What TradeLocker does have is an official API. That is the door. A program running somewhere else — in practice, on the same PC or VPS as your MetaTrader terminal — can authenticate to a TradeLocker account and place, modify and close orders on it. The copying logic lives outside the platform and reaches in.

What that means in practice

You want to	Possible?	How
Copy your MT4/MT5 trades to TradeLocker	Yes	A bridge program using the official API
Run an EA on TradeLocker	No	No MQL runtime exists in the platform
Copy TradeLocker trades back to MetaTrader	Not in our tool	The bridge is one-directional by design
Copy to several TradeLocker accounts	Yes	One bridge instance per account, each in its own folder

What gets copied, and what does not

Worth being exact, because a copier that quietly skips something is worse than one that says so.

Copied: market positions when they open, closes, and stop-loss or take-profit changes made on the master.

Not copied in this version: pending orders and partial closes. They are written to the log and skipped rather than approximated. If your strategy depends on pending orders reaching TradeLocker, this is a real limitation and you should know it before you rely on it.

The speed question, answered honestly

MetaTrader-to-MetaTrader copying on one machine is under ten milliseconds because nothing leaves the computer. Copying to TradeLocker is an API call across the internet, so a realistic figure is 100 to 500 milliseconds depending on where you and the servers are.

For most strategies that difference is irrelevant. For a scalping strategy that lives and dies on the first tick, it is not, and no bridge to a browser platform will change that.

Prop firms and TradeLocker

A lot of people arrive at this question because their prop firm uses TradeLocker while they trade on MetaTrader. Whether you may copy into a funded account is a question about your firm's rules, not about the platform or the software. Most firms are relaxed about copying between your own accounts and strict about copying somebody else's, or about running identical trades across several of their accounts. Read the rulebook rather than a forum post.

Setting it up

If you already run the CopyConnectFX copier on MetaTrader, the TradeLocker side is a small Windows program you put beside it — it reads the same local trade feed your Sender EA already writes, so MetaTrader needs nothing new. It is free, with no licence key.

The full walkthrough lives on the MT4 to TradeLocker copier page, which covers the setup, the symbol mapping you will probably need, and the troubleshooting.

Where to go next

• MT5 to TradeLocker copier — the tool, with its setup guide
• What is TradeLocker? — the platform explained for a MetaTrader trader
• How to copy MT4 trades to TradeLocker — the step-by-step
• Copying during a prop firm challenge — the rules that actually bite

Trading foreign exchange and CFDs carries a high risk of losing money. Copying moves someone's decisions onto another account faster than you can by hand; it does not make a losing strategy profitable. Test on a demo account first.