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Trade Copier Stop Loss and Take Profit: Inherited, Fixed, Refined

How a trade copier carries the sender's stop loss and take profit to each receiver, and what Trada's three modes, Inherited, Fixed and Refined, keep the same.

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Quick Answer

Each receiver in a Trada copier has two independent toggles on its SL & TP tab, Copy Stop Loss and Copy Take Profit, both on by default. Each uses one of three modes: Inherited copies the sender's exact price, Fixed uses the same distance you set on every trade, and Refined takes the sender's distance and increases or decreases it by an amount you choose.

Why a Copied Stop Loss Needs a Rule

A trade copier opens the sender's trade on each receiver. The sender (master) trade usually carries two more numbers: a stop loss (SL) and a take profit (TP). The copier has to decide where those two levels land on each receiver (follower) account.

There is more than one reasonable answer. A receiver can take the sender's exact price, or it can keep a distance from its own entry. The two differ as soon as the receiver fills at a different price from the sender, which can happen when the accounts sit at different brokers. A receiver's Max Slippage setting is built on that gap: it skips the trade when the receiver's entry price is worse than the sender's by more than the amount set. [1]

In Trada, each receiver makes this choice for itself, on its SL & TP tab. [2]

The Three Modes

The stop loss and the take profit each get their own mode, chosen from the same three options. [3] What differs between the modes is what stays the same from sender to receiver.

ModeWhat stays the sameUses the sender's level
InheritedThe sender's priceYes
FixedThe distance you set, whatever distance the sender usedNo
RefinedThe sender's distance, widened or tightened by the amount you setYes, as its starting point

Inherited

The receiver copies the sender's exact SL or TP price. [4] The price is what is kept, not the distance.

Inherited, when the fills differ:

The sender opens BUY EURUSD at 1.1000 with a stop loss at 1.0950, and the receiver's trade also uses a stop loss at 1.0950. If the receiver's trade opened at 1.1002 instead, its stop would still sit at 1.0950: 0.0052 below its own entry, where the sender's is 0.0050 below.

Fixed

Every copied trade uses the same distance, the one you set on the tab, whatever distance the sender used. [5] The stop is placed that set distance from the price the receiver opened at.

Fixed does not read the sender's level, so the receiver gets a stop loss or take profit at the set distance even on a sender trade that has none.

Refined

Refined starts from the sender's distance and adjusts it by an amount you choose:

  • Increase widens the level, giving the trade more room. [6]
  • Decrease tightens it, bringing it closer in.

Because it starts from the sender's distance, Refined has nothing to adjust when the sender's trade carries no level.

Stop Loss and Take Profit Are Set Apart

Copy Stop Loss and Copy Take Profit are independent toggles, and each has its own mode. One receiver can inherit the sender's stop loss and use a Fixed take profit. With a toggle off, that level is not copied from the sender to the receiver.

The choice is also per receiver. Every receiver on a copier is configured independently, and no receiver inherits another's settings, [7] so two receivers copying the same sender can handle the same stop loss in two different ways.

When the Sender's Trade Has No Stop Loss

Inherited and Refined both work from the sender's level. A sender trade without a stop loss gives them nothing to copy or adjust. Fixed is the mode that does not depend on it.

This matters most for a receiver sized with Fixed % Risk, which calculates the lot size from the stop-loss distance. That mode needs a stop loss to size against: the sender's, or one configured in the receiver's SL & TP settings. [8] Without one the trade is not copied, or, with Force Minimum Lot Size on, it is copied at the broker's minimum lot size. [9] The help page on stop-loss and take-profit modes says to keep Copy Stop Loss on with that sizing, or to set a fixed stop-loss distance on the tab. The sizing modes themselves are covered in lot multiplier vs fixed lot.

When the Sender Moves Its Levels

A sender can move its stop loss or take profit after the trade opens. Whether the receivers follow depends on the copier's state.

  • Active: new sender trades are copied in real time, and the sender's closes and SL/TP changes follow. [10]
  • Paused: nothing is copied, not new trades and not the sender's closes or SL/TP changes. Open positions on all accounts stay open and are yours to manage. [11]

The help pages do not spell out how a later move of the sender's stop is applied to a receiver set to Fixed or Refined. If the sender moves its levels during a trade, check how those receivers respond on a small test trade before relying on it.

Changing a receiver's own settings is a separate case. Saved changes take effect immediately, but trades already open are not retroactively changed; new trades use the new settings. [12] Switching a receiver from Inherited to Fixed does not move the stop on a trade it already holds.

Checking the Result

The mode decides where a receiver's levels land. Before relying on it, confirm it on one small trade:

  1. Set Copy Stop Loss and Copy Take Profit, and their modes, on each receiver's SL & TP tab.
  2. Open a small test trade on the sender with a stop loss and a take profit.
  3. In the copier's Copier Logs tab, find the Position Copied entry for each receiver. Filter by account or symbol to isolate one. [13]
  4. On each receiver account, read the stop loss and take profit prices of the copied trade and compare them with what the mode should give: the sender's price for Inherited, the distance you entered for Fixed, the sender's distance plus or minus your amount for Refined.
  5. If the sender moves a level during the trade, read the receivers again.

If a trade does not appear on a receiver at all, the log is where to look first: a Copy Failed or Connection Issue entry around that time. [14] The mode only places the levels. It does not choose the instrument, which is symbol mapping, or the size. For the whole setup in order, see how to copy trades across prop firm accounts.

  1. 1.Add & configure a receiver, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. 2.Stop-loss & take-profit modes, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver/sl-tp-modes. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. 3.Stop-loss & take-profit modes, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver/sl-tp-modes. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. 4.Stop-loss & take-profit modes, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver/sl-tp-modes. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. 5.Stop-loss & take-profit modes, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver/sl-tp-modes. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. 6.Stop-loss & take-profit modes, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver/sl-tp-modes. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. 7.Add & configure a receiver, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. 8.Lot-sizing modes, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver/lot-sizing-modes. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. 9.Lot-sizing modes, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver/lot-sizing-modes. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. 10.Copier states & lifecycle, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/lifecycle. Checked 14 October 2026.
  11. 11.Copier states & lifecycle, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/lifecycle. Checked 14 October 2026.
  12. 12.Add & configure a receiver, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/configure-receiver. Checked 14 October 2026.
  13. 13.Copier logs, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/copier-logs. Checked 14 October 2026.
  14. 14.Copier logs, docs.trada.io/copy-trading/copier-logs. Checked 14 October 2026.

This article was drafted by AI. Before publishing, its claims were checked against Trada's product facts and against the pages it quotes.

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