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🏎️HFT support

High-frequency trading (HFT) is a type of algorithmic trading that utilizes algorithms to execute a large number of trades at extremely high speeds. It aims to capitalize on minor price discrepancies in financial markets, often maintaining positions for only seconds or milliseconds.

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Configuration

MetaCopier offers a lightning-fast copy trading system. It uses multi-threading and non-blocking processes to copy trades across multiple accounts simultaneously without slowing down, making it ideal for high-frequency trading (HFT).

To use MetaCopier.io for HFT, simply follow the setup steps in the quick start guide.

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Recommendation

For HFT strategies or strategies with small profit targets, we recommend enabling the following features to reduce latency and ensure accurate trade replication.

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HFT Mode

  • Enable: HFT mode on the account

  • Why: HFT mode reduces processing overhead and network delays, improving end-to-end execution latency by up to 80 ms.

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Exit Signal Override

  • Enable: Exit signal override on the copier

  • Settings:

    • Ignore for seconds: 0

    • Only if TP/SL are set: Enabled

  • Why: Setting Ignore for seconds to 0 ignores exit signals from the master indefinitely. This prevents premature trade closures and allows positions on the slave account to close only at TP or SL.

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TP/SL Management

  • Enable: TP/SL Management on the copier

  • Settings:

    • Adjust with master distance: Enabled

  • Why: This ensures the slave account’s TP and SL maintain the same distance from the entry price as the master trade. This is essential for strategies with tight profit targets.

By applying these settings, slave accounts can more accurately mirror master trades, minimize latency issues, and improve performance for HFT and small-profit strategies.

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Pending Orders

By default, open orders are omitted from being copied. This is our recommendation and works perfectly for most use cases. If, for some reason, this feature is required for your project, please let us know and we will activate the option for you.

Skip pending orders option

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Best Possible Performance

For the best possible performance, we recommend a dedicated project where the resources are reserved only for you.

Dedicated project example

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Remarks

  • HFT is commonly used on prop firm's demo accounts (for example, to pass challenges). However, most HFT strategies do not work on live accounts due to slippage. Thus, if you plan to use it with live accounts, make sure to test it with a low lot size.

  • Some platforms use REST APIs, which are not suitable for HFT trading. If you plan to use high-frequency trading (HFT) on these platforms, always test on a demo account first before using real funds.

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