How to Copy MT4 Trades to TradeLocker (Free, Step by Step)

Short answer: TradeLocker cannot run Expert Advisors, so nothing installs "inside" it — instead a small bridge program runs on the same Windows PC or VPS as your MT4/MT5 terminal, reads each trade from a Master EA, and places it on your TradeLocker account through TradeLocker's official public API. The CopyConnectFX bridge does this free: opens, closes and SL/TP changes, with fixed, multiplier or balance-ratio sizing. Setup takes about ten minutes; the steps are below.

Why you cannot just install a copier in TradeLocker

MT4 and MT5 are desktop platforms with a built-in programming engine, which is why the whole EA ecosystem exists. TradeLocker took the opposite path: it runs entirely in the browser, which many prop firms adopted after the MetaTrader shake-up — but it means there is no place to attach an EA, no Experts folder, and no copier that can live inside the platform. (More background in What is TradeLocker?)

That leaves exactly one honest architecture: something outside the platform talking to TradeLocker's official API. Be wary of anything claiming to "automate the TradeLocker website" through browser clicking — screen-scraping breaks on every UI update and can violate the platform's terms. An API bridge is the supported route.

What you need

Everything sits on one machine. No cloud service holds your trades in transit, and the copy keeps working even if your internet hiccups between the terminal and the bridge — the API call to TradeLocker is the only leg that needs the internet at all.

How to set it up

1. Create a free account and install the Master EA. Download it from the dashboard, drop it into your terminal's Experts folder, allow WebRequest for https://www.copyconnectfx.com, and attach it to any chart on the account you want to copy FROM.
2. Download the TradeLocker Bridge from the same downloads page and unzip it anywhere on the same PC or VPS.
3. Run the bridge once. It creates a bridge.ini config file beside itself, then exits.
4. Fill in your TradeLocker details in bridge.ini — email, password, server and account number, plus the sizing mode you want (fixed lots, a multiplier of the master's size, or balance-ratio). Your credentials stay in that local file; they are never uploaded.
5. Start the bridge and place a test trade on the master — on a demo TradeLocker account first. You should see the position appear within a couple of seconds, and closing it on MT4/MT5 closes it on TradeLocker.

Full option-by-option detail lives on the bridge page and in the video tutorial.

What is mirrored, exactly

Sizing between two different account sizes

The master and the TradeLocker account rarely hold the same balance, so the bridge offers three modes: fixed (every copy is X lots), multiplier (master's size × your factor), and balance-ratio (the copy is scaled by the two accounts' balances — a 1% risk stays roughly 1%). Balance-ratio is the sensible default for a funded account; the arithmetic behind sizing is covered in the lot size calculator guide.

Prop firm cautions, stated plainly

Most people searching for this are funded traders who passed a challenge on a TradeLocker firm and trade their strategy on MetaTrader. Before pointing any copier at a funded account, check two rules in your firm's terms: whether copying from your own account is allowed (usually yes), and whether identical trades across multiple funded accounts at the same firm are allowed (often no — correlated-accounts rules). Also mind the daily-drawdown clock: a copier does not pause for the 5pm reset. And test the whole chain on the firm's demo first — every firm offers one.

Common problems

Nothing arrives on TradeLocker: the bridge is not running, the credentials in bridge.ini are wrong, or the Master EA shows a sad face (AutoTrading off / WebRequest not allowed). The bridge's console window says which. Sizes look wrong: you are on fixed lots while expecting ratio sizing — check the mode line in the config. Copies lag seconds: that is the TradeLocker API round-trip, not the bridge; a VPS near your broker helps. The general checklist in trade copier not copying trades applies here too.