The Position Reconciler is a built-in safeguard that monitors your follower accounts in real time and automatically exits any position that doesn't match your leader.

You might need this article if:

If you've already seen unexpected automatic exits on a follower account, see Why does the Position Reconciler keep closing trades I placed manually on a follower? or Why is my follower account holding a position the leader didn't open?. If you want to configure or disable the reconciler, see How the Position Reconciler protects your follower accounts.

In a copy trading setup, follower accounts are meant to mirror the leader exactly. The Position Reconciler is the mechanism that enforces this: it monitors every follower account in your copy group and acts immediately when a follower's position doesn't match the leader's.

It is enabled by default on every new copy group. You don't need to set it up or turn it on — it is active from the moment your copy group is live.

Think of it as a continuous integrity check running in the background. Most of the time it does nothing because everything is in sync. It only acts when it detects a discrepancy.

The Position Reconciler is event-driven, not scheduled. It does not run on a timer or check positions periodically.

The trigger is a fill event on a follower account. Every time a follower account receives a fill — a trade entry, exit, or modification — the reconciler checks whether the resulting position matches the leader's current direction and symbol.

This means the reconciler responds to activity, not to time. A position sitting quietly on a follower account from a previous session will be detected and exited the next time a fill event occurs on that account — not before. For how this works specifically across session restarts, see How the Position Reconciler handles session restarts below.

The reconciler flags a mismatch when:

The reconciler cannot distinguish between an intentional manual trade and an accidental one — it treats both the same way. If you want to place a deliberate manual trade on a follower account, disable the replication toggle for that follower first, then re-enable it when you're done.

By default, the reconciler exits the mismatched position and replication continues as normal.

If you enable Disable Replication on Breach, the reconciler goes one step further: after exiting the mismatched position, it also pauses replication entirely for that follower account. A breach indicator icon appears next to the follower's replication toggle, distinguishing a system-triggered pause from one you made manually.

This setting is off by default. Enabling it is appropriate if you want to investigate what caused the mismatch before copying resumes — the follower stays paused until you manually re-enable replication.

For full configuration details on both settings, see How the Position Reconciler protects your follower accounts.

How long the reconciler is active depends on which Tradecopia plan you use.

Pro desktop:
The reconciler is active only while the Tradecopia desktop app is running and connected. If you close the app, the reconciler stops. Any position that drifts on a follower account while the app is offline will not be detected until the next fill event after the app reconnects.

This makes end-of-session hygiene important for Pro desktop users: using Group Flatten before closing the app clears open positions so nothing carries over undetected into the next session.

Pro+ Lite and Pro+ (cloud plans):
The reconciler runs server-side on Tradecopia's infrastructure and is always active — regardless of whether you have the web interface open. You do not need to keep a browser tab open for the reconciler to function. If a mismatch occurs, the reconciler will act whether you are logged in or not.

The Position Reconciler operates within a session. It does not carry any memory of the previous session's state when Tradecopia is closed and reopened.

When the desktop app restarts, the reconciler begins fresh. It does not scan follower accounts for leftover positions from the previous session at startup. This is intentional design: scanning for and acting on previous-session positions before broker connections are fully re-established would risk Tradecopia acting on stale data — closing positions based on an incomplete picture of what the market and broker currently hold.

The consequence for desktop Pro users:

If a follower account is holding an open position when you close Tradecopia, and the leader is flat when you reopen it, the reconciler will not detect or close that orphan position at startup. The position sits on the follower account undetected until the next fill event in the new session.

That orphan only becomes visible to the reconciler when the leader places a new trade. At that point, the reconciler sees a mismatch and responds — but exactly what happens depends on the direction of the new leader trade relative to the orphan. A dedicated resolution article covers those scenarios in detail — see What happens to my follower positions when I close and reopen Tradecopia?.

Prevention: Using Group Flatten before closing the app ensures all follower accounts are flat when the next session starts. A clean start means nothing is carried forward silently.

Pro+ Lite and Pro+ users: The reconciler is always active on cloud plans and does not go offline between sessions. This session restart behaviour does not apply to you.

For traders running multiple funded accounts at a prop firm, unintended positions carry direct consequences — a single rogue position on a follower account can register as a rule violation and put a funded account at risk.

The Position Reconciler removes that risk by design. Any position that doesn't originate from the leader is exited immediately when detected, regardless of how it got there.