Forex to Futures Trade Copying
TopstepX accounts can follow an MT5 account, so the strategy you already run on MetaTrader 5 can also trade a Topstep futures account. The TopstepX side is linked using a ProjectX API key plus your TopstepX username, and only simulated accounts that are open for trading can be added. Each CFD the MT5 account trades needs an alias to the contract the follower should open, such as US30=YM or US2000=M2K, and every copy is sized in whole contracts. Read Topstep's current copy-trading rules, and your MT5 firm's, before you link the two.
Master-to-Slave Sync
Source / Master
MetaTrader 5 is MetaQuotes' newer multi-asset platform, commonly used for modern prop firm accounts, discretionary trading, and algorithmic systems.
Open Positions
1
Sizing
Lots
Latest Event
E01
Opened #12847593 at 42150. TP 42180 / SL 42128.
Master execution confirmed and queued for copy.
Log History
BUY US30 @ 2.00 lot
Opened #12847593 at 42150. TP 42180 / SL 42128.
Relay
Destination / Slaves
TopstepX is the platform Topstep traders use, and it runs on ProjectX. TradeCopier.cloud reaches it through the ProjectX API with your username and an API key, and can trade the simulated accounts that API allows.
Route Layout
1 master -> 1 destination
Follower Sizing
Per account
Slave 1
TopstepX mirror route
BUY 2 MYM contracts
Opened #12847593 at 42150. TP 42180 / SL 42128.
This setup suits traders whose strategy runs on MT5 at a forex/CFD broker or prop firm and who have added a futures account on TopstepX. The TopstepX account follows the MT5 master, so each trade is placed once and both accounts stay on the same side of the market.
Add the MT5 account as a master and the TopstepX account as a follower, linked using a ProjectX API key plus your TopstepX username, then pick the MT5 account as the follower's master. Give the follower a symbol alias for each CFD you want copied, such as US30=YM or XAUUSD=GC: the alias names the contract root, and the copier trades the front month. The follower's sizing mode converts lots to contracts and rounds them to a whole number.
Copies are rounded to whole contracts, and a trade that rounds to zero, such as 0.1 lots at a multiplier of 1, isn't opened; Fixed Contracts opens a set number of contracts instead. A CFD lot and a futures contract rarely carry the same exposure, so compare the value of a point on both sides and test with one contract. Only simulated TopstepX accounts that are open for trading can be added. Check the rules of both firms before you copy between them.
Yes, for each CFD you want copied. The alias pairs the MT5 symbol, written exactly as the master shows it, with a contract such as YM, M2K or MGC. A symbol whitelist keeps the other instruments off the futures account.
The follower's sizing mode converts each trade and rounds it to whole contracts. With Contract Multiplier, lots × the multiplier gives the contracts; Fixed Contracts always opens the number you set. A trade that rounds to zero contracts isn't copied.
Yes. Make the TopstepX account the master and the MT5 account a follower, with an alias from each dated contract the master trades to your broker's CFD. Each contract is then copied as lots.
Copying from futures to forex/CFD instead? Read the Tradovate to MT5 guide.
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