Editorial policy

Quotes, not paraphrase

Every prop firm rule we publish carries the firm's own words, copied exactly from a page on the firm's website, help centre or terms, with a link to that page. Next to each quote we give our plain-English reading of it. Where we can, we also link an archived copy of the page on the Internet Archive, so you can see what it said when we checked.

We never use third-party blogs, forums or review sites as a source for a rule. They can be a lead for us to check, nothing more.

The status scale

For copy rules we use one of five answers:

• Allowed: the firm says you can.
• Allowed, with limits: the firm says you can, with conditions such as a capital cap, one master account, or own accounts only.
• Restricted: the firm limits it so tightly, or says contradictory things across its own pages, that you should get written confirmation from the firm first.
• Not allowed: the firm prohibits it.
• Not stated: the firm's pages that we read don't say. We never fill a gap with a guess.

When a firm's own pages contradict each other, we quote both, choose the more restrictive answer and say so on the page.

Two dates on every firm page

• Rules last checked is the date someone last re-read every rule against the firm's pages. It moves only when that re-check actually happens.
• Last updated is the date the page's content last changed. We don't change dates to make a page look fresh.

Research, review and AI

We use AI tools to help find and draft rules. A draft is not published as checked: a person reads every rule against the firm's own page and signs the page off. Until that sign-off, a firm page shows a “not yet reviewed” notice and is kept out of search engines. A page is also kept out of search until every core rule is sourced.

Firms change their rules often. We plan to re-check every published firm each week for changed or removed wording, re-read each firm in full every month, and publish real changes within 48 hours with the old and new wording.

Comparisons with other copiers

• CopyTrade.pro is not available yet, so every CopyTrade.pro feature on a comparison page is labelled “Planned: MVP”, “Planned: v1” or “Never”.
• Every fact about another product comes from that product's own website, documentation or terms, with a link and the date we checked it. Speed figures are shown as the vendor's own claim.
• We don't claim to be faster, more reliable or better than anyone until we have beta measurements to back it, and we don't quote reviews of competitors.
• We re-check competitor facts monthly and update our side of the table as features ship.

Independence

We have no affiliate links and take no payments from prop firms or copier companies. If that ever changes, the money will never change a rule, a status or a comparison, and paid links will be labelled where they appear. See the affiliate disclosure.

Not advice

Our pages describe what firms publish. They are not legal, financial or trading advice, and a firm can apply its rules differently from how it writes them. Always confirm with the firm before you rely on a rule.

Corrections

If you think a rule or fact is wrong or out of date, email hello@copytrade.pro with the page, what you think is wrong, and a link to the firm's current wording if you have one. We aim to reply within two working days. Every correction is logged in the firm page's change log with the date.

Quoting our pages

You are welcome to quote individual rules or facts from this site, with a link to the page you quoted. We don't offer a bulk download of the data at the moment.