Tradovate Can't Group-Trade Two Apex Accounts

You've got two Apex accounts, you want one click to hit both, and you go looking for Group Trade, then it just won't link them. Here's the short version: Tradovate's built-in Group Trade only groups accounts that sit under a single login, and two separate Apex accounts usually come with their own separate credentials. Different logins mean the second account never even shows up in the Manage Groups panel, so there's nothing to drag into your group. The fix isn't a hidden setting, it's a third-party trade copier that connects to each account on its own and mirrors your orders across both. Below is exactly why the native feature stops here, how to confirm what you're dealing with, and how to get one signal firing into both accounts anyway.

What Group Trade Actually Does, and Where It Stops

Group Trade is Tradovate's way of letting one order flow into several accounts at once. You define a group, drop accounts into it, assign a quantity to each, then trade the group as if it were a single account. Orders, positions, and fills for every account in the group show up together, and group-level actions like flatten, reverse, and cancel-all work across the set.

It's genuinely useful, inside its boundaries. And those boundaries are the whole story here:

• Same login. Every account in a group has to be attached to the username you're signed in with. The Manage Groups option only shows up once you have more than one account under that single login.
• Same brokerage provider. You can't mix accounts from different providers in one group. Two accounts from the same prop provider, or two accounts under one Tradovate brokerage username, are fine; a mismatched pair is not.
• No brackets or ATM orders. Group Trade won't place automated bracket or ATM strategy orders. You enter stops and targets manually, usually as an OCO.
• Platform must be open. It runs in the web or desktop app while you're logged in. It's not a background service.

Why Two Separate Apex Accounts Won't Group

1. Each Apex account can carry its own Tradovate login

This is the root cause. When you run more than one Apex account, each one can be issued its own set of Tradovate credentials. To reach the second account you log out and sign back in with a different username, which means the two accounts never share a single session. Group Trade builds a group from whatever accounts are attached to the login you're on right now, so an account living on a different login is simply invisible to it. There's no “add account from another login” button, because that's not what the feature was built to do.

2. Group Trade groups accounts, not logins

Even when the platform is happy, Manage Groups can only pull from the account list of your current username. If your two Apex accounts were provisioned separately, one of them sits outside that list every time. You can create a group, name it, and drag accounts into it, but you'll only ever see the accounts on the login you signed in with. The one you want to pair it with is on the other side of a second login you're not currently using.

3. The “same brokerage provider” rule adds a second gate

Group Trade also refuses to mix accounts from different brokerage sources. If one account is an Apex evaluation and the other is, say, a personal Tradovate brokerage account, that mismatch blocks grouping on its own, separate from the login problem. Two accounts have to clear both gates, same login and same provider, and separate Apex accounts frequently fail the first one.

4. Brackets and always-on routing are missing anyway

Say your two Apex accounts do happen to sit under one login and you get a group working. You still can't run automated brackets or ATM strategies through it, and the group only fires while the app is open on your screen. For anyone running a bracketed strategy or wanting hands-off execution, the native feature runs out of road quickly, which is why plenty of multi-account traders skip it even when it technically works.

How to Fix It: Step-by-Step

Step 1: Confirm whether your accounts share one login

Before anything else, find out what you're actually dealing with. Log in and open the account dropdown at the top of the platform. If both Apex accounts appear in the same list and you see a Manage Groups option, they're under one login, native Group Trade is at least on the table. If you have to log out and sign in with different credentials to reach the second account, they're on separate logins, and no native setting will merge them.

Step 2: If they share a login, build the group (and know its limits)

When both accounts genuinely sit under one username, Group Trade will do the job for manual trading. Open the account dropdown, choose Manage Groups, create a group with the plus control, name it, then drag the accounts you want from the left side into the group on the right and set a quantity for each. From then on, select the group and your manual orders hit both accounts. Just remember the ceilings: no brackets or ATM strategies, and it only works while the platform is open. (Labels and the exact placement of these controls shift between platform updates, so confirm the current wording in your app as you go.)

Step 3: If they're on separate logins, use a third-party copier

This is the real answer for most people with two distinct Apex accounts. A trade copier connects to each account independently, its own credentials, its own token, and mirrors every order from a designated master account to the followers. Because it authenticates to each account on its own, it doesn't care that the accounts live on different logins. That's the exact gap Group Trade can't cross, and it's the whole reason copiers exist for this use case.

You pick one account (or a TradingView strategy) as the source, connect each Apex account to the copier, set a size or risk ratio per account, and every entry and exit fans out to all of them from a single instruction.

Step 4: Set per-account sizing and route from one signal

Different Apex accounts often have different sizes and rules, so mirroring one-for-one isn't always what you want. Set a quantity multiplier or a risk-percentage per account so a signal scales correctly, for example one account takes the base size while another takes a fraction of it. Then drive everything from a single source, whether that's a manual master account or a TradingView alert, so both accounts fire together instead of you re-entering each trade by hand.

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Mirror Both Apex Accounts With PickMyTrade

If your two Apex accounts sit on separate logins, PickMyTrade closes exactly the gap native Group Trade leaves open. It connects to each account on its own, then fires one instruction into all of them, no shared login required, and no platform window that has to stay open.

• Per-account connections, link each Apex account with its own credentials or token, so different logins stop being a blocker.
• One signal, many accounts, a single TradingView alert or master trade fans out to every linked account at once.
• Quantity multiplier or risk %, size each account independently so a signal scales to different account sizes and rules.
• Bracket-friendly routing, attach stop-loss and take-profit legs instead of being stuck with manual-only orders.
• Always-on execution, routing runs server-side, so trades mirror whether or not your platform window is open.