What it copies
Copied, and not copied
- Market positions — buy and sell, opened the moment the master opens
- Closes — master closes, the TradeLocker position closes
- Stop-loss and take-profit changes, mirrored as absolute prices
- Sizing per account: fixed lots, multiplier, or balance ratio
- Broker suffix stripping (EURUSD.r → EURUSD) and manual symbol mapping (XAUUSD=GOLD)
Not in this version, stated plainly:
- Pending orders — logged and skipped, coming in a later version
- Partial closes — the position closes in full when the master's does
Set up in about five minutes
- Attach the free Sender EA to your MT4/MT5 master account — the same one the MT-to-MT copier uses. Already running it? Skip this step.
- Download CopyConnectBridge.zip from your dashboard and unzip it anywhere on the same PC or VPS.
- Run it once — it writes a bridge.ini and exits. Fill in your TradeLocker email, password and server, pick a sizing mode.
- Run it again and leave it open. Every open, close and SL/TP change on the master now lands on TradeLocker, with a log line for each.
Speed, honestly: orders travel over the internet to TradeLocker's servers, so expect 100–500 ms — not the <10 ms of our local MT-to-MT copying. And prop firms set their own rules on copiers; read yours before using this on a funded account.
Setup guide
From download to first copied trade
1. Get the Sender EA running on your master
The bridge reads the trade feed the CopyConnect Sender EA writes locally. Create a free account, download the Sender EA for MT4 or MT5 from the dashboard, drop it in your terminal's Experts folder and attach it to any chart of the master account. Already copying MT-to-MT with us? This is the same EA — skip ahead.
2. Download and unzip the bridge
From Dashboard → Downloads, get CopyConnectBridge.zip (TradeLocker Bridge — Windows). Unzip it into any folder on the same PC or VPS where the master terminal runs. It contains the exe and a README with everything on this page.
3. Run once to create bridge.ini
Double-click CopyConnectBridge.exe. On first run it writes a bridge.ini template next to itself and closes — that file is where all configuration lives. Nothing is installed and no registry is touched; delete the folder and the bridge is gone.
4. Fill in your TradeLocker login
Open bridge.ini in Notepad. Under [tradelocker], set environment to demo or live, then your TradeLocker email, password, and the server name your broker or prop firm gave you (it is shown in their welcome email and on the TradeLocker login screen). If the login has several accounts, set acc_num; leave it blank to use the first one.
5. Choose how trades are sized
Under [copy], pick sizing_mode: fixed (every trade the same lots), multiplier (master lots × your factor), or balance_ratio (scaled by TradeLocker balance vs master balance). Set max_lots as a hard cap. If your master's symbols carry a broker suffix like EURUSD.r, set symbol_suffix_strip = .r; map any names that differ with symbol_map = XAUUSD=GOLD.
6. Run again and test with one small trade
Start CopyConnectBridge.exe and leave the window open. It logs in, loads TradeLocker's instrument list and starts watching the master. Place a 0.01-lot test trade on the master: within about half a second the bridge prints an “opened” line and the position appears on TradeLocker. Close it on the master and the TradeLocker position closes. Do this on a demo account first — always.
If something does not copy
- Login failed: check demo vs live in bridge.ini — a demo login on the live environment fails with the same error as a wrong password.
- "no TradeLocker instrument for ...": the symbol name differs between your broker and TradeLocker. Add a symbol_map entry, e.g. XAUUSD=GOLD.
- Nothing happens at all: confirm the Sender EA shows a smiley on the master chart and that the bridge runs on the same machine — it reads local files, so a different VPS cannot work.
- Old trades were not copied: by design. Trades open before the bridge starts are skipped unless you set copy_existing = true.
Frequently asked questions
Can MT4 or MT5 EAs run on TradeLocker?+
No. TradeLocker cannot run MQL Expert Advisors at all. The way to trade a MetaTrader strategy on a TradeLocker account is a bridge: the EA keeps running in your MT4/MT5 terminal, and a separate program copies each trade to TradeLocker through its API. That is what the CopyConnect Bridge does.
Is this an official TradeLocker integration?+
The bridge uses TradeLocker's official public REST API — the same documented interface TradeLocker publishes for developers, with your own login. Nothing is reverse-engineered, which is also why TradeLocker is the first platform we support rather than DXtrade or Match-Trader.
How fast is the copy?+
Roughly 100 to 500 milliseconds in practice. The order has to travel over the internet to TradeLocker's servers, so it is slower than our local MT4/MT5 copying, which stays under 10 ms because it never leaves your machine. For most strategies this difference does not matter; for high-frequency scalping it can.
Where does my TradeLocker password go?+
Into a bridge.ini file on your own computer, and from there only to TradeLocker's API over HTTPS. It is never sent to CopyConnectFX servers. The bridge talks to exactly two things: the local files your Sender EA writes, and TradeLocker.
Does it work with prop firm accounts on TradeLocker?+
Technically yes — demo and live accounts both work. But every prop firm writes its own rules about copiers and automation, and some prohibit them. Read your firm's terms before running any copier on a funded account; the bridge cannot do that reading for you.
What does it cost?+
Nothing. Like the rest of CopyConnectFX, the bridge is free with a free account — no licence key, no trial period, no paid tier holding features back.
One free login, five tools
The bridge shares your CopyConnectFX account with the MT-to-MT copier, Verified Results, TV Alerts and the Signal Copier.