Copy Groups: Organizing Your Trading Accounts
As your account count grows, structure helps. Learn how to group accounts into a leader and members you can toggle on and off together, so you copy to exactly the accounts you want.
With two accounts you don't need structure; with six you do. Copy groups are that structure: one leader whose trades drive the group, and members that follow it — each with a toggle, so 'who copies what' is a setting you can see, not a thing you remember.
Leader and members
The leader is whatever account you actually trade — from MirrorChain's one-click chart or directly on the platform; the copier picks up leader trades either way. Members receive entries balance-scaled to their own size and, crucially, receive exits: close the leader and every member's matching position closes with it.
Enabling the group is the switch. Disable it and the members go quiet; re-enable and they follow again. Individual members can be paused without touching the group — handy when one account approaches a drawdown boundary and you want it flat for a few days.
One hard rule: CFD with CFD, futures with futures
MirrorChain will refuse to put a CFD account and a futures account in the same group. A gold CFD and a Micro Gold future track the same metal with entirely different contract sizes, tick values and margins — 'copying' between them without translation is a sizing accident waiting to happen. Futures accounts group with futures (Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TopstepX and futures-class MT5 together — see Tradovate copy trading), CFD accounts with CFD.
Patterns that work
- Prop farm: leader on the account you watch, members are your funded accounts — with per-account risk limits inside each firm's rules.
- Broker redundancy: same strategy on two brokers; the journal will tell you which one's fills are cheaper.
- Scale ladder: trade the small personal account as leader, let the larger accounts mirror at proportional size.