A free tool, not a new permission.
FTUK has partnered with Trada to give every FTUK trader free access to Trada's platform. The tool covers trade copying, risk protection and auto-journaling across multiple accounts, packaging together several functions traders previously had to piece together from separate third-party services.
It's worth being precise about what's actually new here. FTUK's existing rules already permit copy trading, specifically from an external account into an FTUK account, though copying between multiple FTUK accounts remains off-limits. So the partnership isn't unlocking a capability that was previously banned. It's handing traders a specific, firm-endorsed tool to use that capability, rather than leaving them to find and pay for their own copier.
Bundled tools versus a marketplace of them.
Trade copiers built for prop-firm use already exist as a paid category, with services charging monthly subscriptions to sync trades across accounts and firms with low latency. A trader who wanted this functionality at FTUK before the partnership would have needed to research, subscribe to, and configure one of those tools themselves, and confirm it was actually compatible with FTUK's specific platforms and rules.
Bundling Trada in for free removes that research step and, presumably, the cost. What it also does is steer traders toward one specific provider rather than the open market of copier and journaling tools, which is a trade-off worth naming even when the bundled option is free.
Prop firms are starting to compete on the tools around trading, not just the rules of it.
A profit split and a drawdown rule are easy to compare across firms in a spreadsheet. A bundled copy-trading and journaling suite is harder to compare, but it's a real part of the day-to-day experience of managing a funded account, especially for traders running multiple accounts who'd otherwise be manually replicating trades or logging performance by hand.
Giving that away for free is also a way for a firm to make its accounts stickier: once a trader has built a workflow around a firm-provided tool, switching firms means rebuilding that workflow elsewhere.
Questions, answered.
Sources
- FTUK Futures, partnership announcement, "FTUK x Trada partnership," August 31, 2026.
- FTUK Help Center, Futures Trading Rules, "Can I Copy Trades on My Futures Account?"
