The Copy-Trading Plan

• Prevent hedging ON
  Caps a follower's order at its existing position size — never flips it into a reversed direction. Only covers Market-order flips through flat; a Stop/Limit reversal or fresh bracket entry isn't blocked by this alone.
• Position reconciler ON
  Corrects any follower fill that doesn't match the leader — entry or exit, regardless of cause. Recommended kept on by TradeCopia's own guide.
• Disable replication on breach OFF
  The reconciler already corrects any mismatch on its own; this toggle's only added effect is silently pausing a follower's future, clean trades after one incident, until manually re-enabled. Given active monitoring is already the plan, the automatic pause costs more (missed trades) than it protects.
• Auto-close on leader-flat ON
  Brackets replicate as individual orders, not one linked group — this is the direct fix for a stale follower order surviving after the leader's TP or SL already closed it out.
• Flatten followers on cancel ON
  Same cleanup, triggered by a cancel rather than a fill — covers the other path to a clean, flat leader state.
• Daily Loss limit — $555, all six accounts Personal rule
  Started at $600 — "so I never lose more than $600 in a day again" — then revised down once the question became would this actually have saved the account, not just felt safe. LucidFlex25's real firm DLL is $600; a self-imposed limit at that exact value leaves no margin between the trigger and the flatten order actually filling — the same gap that took a 100K Apex Static account previously. $555 became the number for every account, not just Lucid, for consistency.

• The reconciler has a standalone-follower exception
  TopOneFutures force-closes at 16:10 ET, well ahead of Apex's own ~16:59 ET window. Once the Group B leader (TOF197288) is flat for the day, the Position reconciler reads any new position opened directly on Apex-11/Apex-12 as a mismatch and force-exits it — even though those accounts still have legitimate trading time left. Trading a follower on its own once its leader is done for the day requires toggling the reconciler off for that group first — or, the safer version learned since: pull the account out of the group entirely (TPT and LegendsTrading have both been removed from Group A this way, rather than just toggled off within it) when the plan is to trade through news on purpose. Accounts also get swapped in and out of groups live as needed — e.g. copying only Apex-12 without TopOne for a stretch — a more flexible pattern than the on/off toggle alone.
• Toggling it off mid-session doesn't do what it might seem to
  Tested live during a Friday news window, believing the reconciler needed to be off to manually flatten TPT during its news blackout while leaving LucidFlex25 open. It didn't — manually flattening one account directly on the broker never required that. Turning it back on afterward surfaced the real risk it guards against instead: a leader's fill landing without a matching follower fill, unnoticed, on a trailing-drawdown account.
• The groups got renamed into fail-safes
  Group B grew to 5 followers Sep 15 (TOF218430/TOF218431, a second BOGO+20%-off TopOne pair), and LegendsTrading (won via a KnightTrader giveaway) joined Group A as a second follower Sep 25. Around the same time, both groups' in-app names were rewritten from generic labels into compressed fail-safe reminders of the actual trading rules — see the Structure table above for the literal current wording and what it does and doesn't fully capture.
• A follower can get flattened before its own deadline
  LucidFlex must be flat by 16:45 ET; TPT's own deadline is 16:55 ET. Because TPT follows LucidFlex25 in Group A, "Auto-close follower positions" flattens TPT the moment its leader goes flat — ten minutes before TPT's own firm would actually require it. TradeCopia's per-group Disable control may decouple this; not yet tested live.
• A rough Friday, logged honestly
  News-window trading went well. The close didn't — adjusting the reconciler and risk numbers live while trying to recover a TPT drawdown made both TPT and LucidFlex25 slightly worse instead of better. Limited real damage, risk stayed managed, but it broke a green streak and was a genuinely humbling day. In hindsight, stopping entirely after the first loss would have been the better call than trying to actively fix it live. Sep 9 update: came close to needing the same fix again — a trade sat deep enough in drawdown to seriously consider raising the Daily Loss limit for room — but a burst of volatility brought every account back to green without touching a single setting that time. The real lesson: don't let one trade's drawdown pull every mirrored account down together like that again. Leaning toward keeping the Lucid-led group's risk tighter than TopOne's going forward, since TPT already carries a 2x multiplier and Lucid has the small firm DLL — this particular day mirrored full size on both groups at once.

The account ledger on the gallery page carries its own subtitle: "what once looked like a graveyard is a resurrection project." That's not a figure of speech — the recovery arc starts Feb 13, 2026, with a blowup and no rule held. Everything since has been rebuilding discipline one rule at a time.

TradeCopia's Daily Loss enforcement is the first automated backstop for a failure mode personal discipline alone has never fully covered: being physically unable to close a trade in time, whether from a mental-stop habit or a power/internet failure removing the ability to execute manually. Not a replacement for discipline — the next layer on top of it.