Finance and accounting decision
TradeCopier.cloud
A single-master→single-receiver trade copier is realistic for a capable developer to build and run (core prior-art exists for MT4/MT5), but reproducing the full multi-platform, low-latency, polished commercial service with billing and broad platform coverage is larger than a one-person short-term project.
Visit website↗$8/mo
$96/yr
Per seat. Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off120 h to build
$35/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 6 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Listen for trade events from a master account, transform/map order parameters (symbol, lot, SL/TP), enqueue and dispatch matching execution requests to receiver platform APIs, persist logs and show real-time status in a dashboard.
What it still won’t have
- Out-of-the-box support for many receiver platforms (MatchTrader, TradeLocker, DXtrade) — initial scope is one receiver
- Polish, monitoring, SLA and 24/7 support of the commercial service
- Scale-tested low-latency guarantees (the site advertises ~50 ms sync)
- Billing, account management, multi-master/multi-receiver UI features
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 6 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal cloud trade copier that accepts a MetaTrader5 master and copies trades to one cTrader receiver. Use Node.js (TypeScript), Postgres, BullMQ (Redis) for background jobs, Docker, and GitHub Actions for CI. Core features in scope: MT5 trade listener (socket/bridge) ingest, symbol/lot mapping and simple filters, idempotent execution sender to cTrader API, persistent trade/log storage, a basic web dashboard showing live events and history, authentication, retry/error handling, and tests for ingest->dispatch flow. Out of scope: MT4/MatchTrader/TradeLocker/DXtrade integrations, multi-receiver routing UI, billing/subscriptions, SLA/ops. Provide Docker Compose deployment, monitoring health endpoints, structured logs, and automated tests for the worker and API.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 2 cited sources+1
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score56
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productTradeCopier.cloud | Cross-Platform Cloud-Based Trade Copier
- official pricingPricing | TradeCopier.cloud
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
