Published: May 2026 | Category: NinjaTrader Guides
If you are managing multiple NinjaTrader prop firm accounts, the biggest decision Q-My-Trade V2 puts in front of you is not how many accounts to run or what your daily limits should be. It is which operating mode to use.
V2 introduces two fundamentally different ways to route trades across your accounts: ROTATE and COPY ALL. Each solves a different problem. Understanding which one fits your situation can mean the difference between a clean, compliant funded account and one that gets flagged for inconsistent trading behaviour.
Here is the full breakdown.
What ROTATE Mode Does
ROTATE mode sends one trade to one account at a time. When your signal strategy opens a position, Q-My-Trade copies it to the next eligible account in your queue. When that trade closes, the queue advances to the next account. The cycle continues automatically.
Accounts that hit their daily loss limit are skipped without manual intervention. Accounts that have reached their profit target are skipped too. The rotation always goes to the next account that is within its limits.
This is the model Q-My-Trade was built on from day one. It exists because of a specific problem that copy trading creates for prop firm traders.
When you send the same signal to 10 accounts simultaneously, every account takes the same losing trade at the same time. One bad day hits your entire portfolio at once. Prop firms track consistency: if every account shows identical trades on identical days with identical drawdown patterns, some firms flag it. And beyond the flagging risk there is a practical one: a losing streak that should affect one account affects all of them.
ROTATE mode isolates each trade to a single account. Account 1 takes the first trade. Account 2 takes the second. Account 3 takes the third. If trade 1 was a loser, only Account 1 absorbs it. Account 2 starts fresh on its own trade.
Over time, each account builds its own independent performance record. That is exactly what prop firms want to see.
What COPY ALL Mode Does
COPY ALL mode does the opposite. When your signal opens a position, every eligible account in the sub-group opens the same position simultaneously. When the signal closes, all accounts close together.
Accounts that are capped or manually skipped are excluded. Everyone else trades.
This sounds like what a standard trade copier does (and it is), but with two important differences. First, per-account win and loss limits are enforced automatically. If Account 5 has hit its daily loss limit, it sits out. The others continue. Second, it is built on the same event-driven engine as ROTATE mode, which means scale-ins, partial closes, and reversals are all copied correctly across every account simultaneously.
The use case is evaluation accounts. If you are running 10 Apex challenges trying to pass as many as possible before the challenges expire, you do not want to wait for a sequential rotation. You want every account to take every trade and accumulate profit target progress as fast as possible. COPY ALL is how you do that.
The Core Difference
| ROTATE | COPY ALL | |
| Trades per signal | 1 account | All eligible accounts |
| Risk exposure | Isolated per trade | Shared across accounts |
| Good fit for | Funded accounts | Evaluation accounts |
| Consistency pattern | Each account independent | Accounts mirror each other |
| Daily limit handling | Skip and advance queue | Skip that account, rest continue |
| Prop firm flag risk | Very low | Moderate: accounts look similar |
When to Use ROTATE
Use ROTATE for any account where you need to protect an independent performance record.
Funded accounts are the obvious case. Apex funded accounts, Lucid funded, MyFundedFutures funded, any account where the prop firm is watching your consistency, your drawdown pattern, and your day-to-day behaviour. Running these in ROTATE means each account has its own distinct trade history built up over time.
Drawdown-sensitive accounts are another. If you have an account close to its trailing drawdown limit, you do not want it taking every trade. ROTATE keeps it out of the rotation when it is capped and brings it back in when conditions allow.
Mixed account sizes also suit ROTATE. If one account is a 50K Lucid funded and another is a 150K Apex funded, their risk profiles are completely different. ROTATE lets each account trade on its own terms within its own limits.
When to Use COPY ALL
Use COPY ALL when your goal is to maximise progress across multiple similar accounts as fast as possible.
Evaluation accounts are the primary use case. If you have purchased 8 Apex challenges and want all 8 to reach the profit target at the same time, COPY ALL gets you there. Every trade moves every account forward simultaneously.
Account blasting, running a batch of evaluations specifically to try to pass as many as possible in a short window, is exactly what COPY ALL was designed for. You get maximum signal coverage across your account pool.
Low-correlation accounts within COPY ALL are fine. If all your COPY ALL accounts are at different prop firms with different consistency rules and different evaluation periods, the mirroring pattern is much less likely to cause issues than if they are all identical accounts at the same firm.
Running Both Modes at the Same Time
This is where V2’s structure becomes genuinely powerful. You can run several masters at once, each with its own signal account, and each master can hold sub-groups with their own mode.
A practical example:
- Master 1 (COPY ALL): 8 Apex 50K evaluation accounts. All trade simultaneously on every signal. Goal: pass as many as possible.
- Master 2 (ROTATE): 3 Apex funded accounts. One trades per signal, rotating through the queue. Goal: keep each funded account’s consistency clean.
Both masters run the same strategy, each on its own signal account (for example Sim101 and Sim102). The evaluations blast through every signal. The funded accounts rotate carefully through the same trades. You manage both from one window.
Sub-groups inside one master work differently: they take turns, so the first trade goes to Sub-Group 1 and the next to Sub-Group 2. That’s useful when you want to alternate signals between two sets of accounts.
When all evaluation accounts either pass or fail, you retire that sub-group. When funded accounts get added, you add them to the ROTATE queue. The structure grows with your portfolio.
A Note on Prop Firm Rules
Neither ROTATE nor COPY ALL will automatically ensure compliance with every prop firm’s specific rules. Q-My-Trade does not interact with prop firm risk systems and does not monitor your account for rule violations. That is always your responsibility.
What ROTATE does is create a more naturally independent performance pattern across your accounts, which tends to look less uniform to firms that monitor for copy trading behaviour. COPY ALL creates a more correlated pattern, which carries more risk if your firm actively checks for it.
Always verify your prop firm’s terms before running multiple accounts of the same firm simultaneously. Some firms explicitly permit it. Others restrict it. The rules vary and change.
Which Should You Start With?
If you are new to Q-My-Trade and unsure which to use, start with ROTATE. It is the safer default for funded accounts and gives you full control over which account is active at any given time. Once you understand the rotation behaviour and have your limits configured correctly, add a second master with a COPY ALL group for your evaluations.
Both modes are included with Q-My-Trade. You can switch between them at any time. The mode is set per sub-group and can be changed without restarting anything.
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Q-My-Trade V2 is a NinjaTrader 8 add-on for multi-account trade rotation and copy. It works with prop firm accounts connected in NinjaTrader 8.