We support innovation and automation—but not outsourcing your entire trading to someone else.
Our goal is to fund skilled, independent traders. That’s why we strictly forbid copy trading (following someone else’s trades in real time) and the use of third-party Expert Advisors (EAs) or bots you didn’t create or control.
❌ These are not allowed at Fintokei:
• Copying trades from a signal provider, another trader, Telegram/Discord channel, or other trading social network.
• Using the same or similar strategy and/or placing the same or similar trades as your mentor, colleague trader or any other 3rd parties alike.
• Using commercial or free EAs made by someone else without any setting or interference from your side (even if they’re profitable).
• Following a “master” account of someone else through trade mirroring or copier tools.
• Copying reversed / opposite trades from the account of yourself or someone else held with a different prop firm or a broker.
• Letting another person or a 3rd party provider to trade on your account on your behalf (manual or automated).
✅ What is allowed:
• Using your own EA or automated system, fully created and configured by you.
• Building or customizing the commercial or free EAs or automated systems with your own parameters—as long as the logic is yours and transparent.
• Manually executing ideas inspired by others (as long as you’re not syncing trades in real-time, or unless you and more clients would have multiple identical trades).
⚠️ Why is copy trading prohibited?
Because it defeats the point of prop trading.
We’re here to back real traders—not strategies they bought online or copy from others. If we can’t verify that your results come from your own decision-making, the whole idea of backing your talent falls apart.
❗️“Our business model counts on smart, honest traders. The best of you may be offered deeper cooperation and amazing opportunities. But strategies that look like gambling, or that just blindly copy paste someone else’s work have no place here.”
Imagine several traders using the same EA—or copying the same person manually. It may seem harmless, but in reality, this behavior circumvents our max allocation logic and risk limits.
📩 If this practice is detected, we’ll send you a warning by email. But if you keep copying trades or if we find out that you allow someone else to manage your account, it may lead to your account being breached or terminated.
If you want to use third-party tools or just copy someone else’s lead, we’re not the right place for that. But if you’re ready to build your own strategy, automated or manual, we’re all in!
Lastly, if you are not sure if your specific approach falls under the prohibited practices, please do not hesitate to contact us and present us your case in advance.