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Multi-Account Management
Plenty of traders run more than one account at once — a demo for testing, a live account for real trades, and maybe a funded prop-firm account on top. TTMT runs all of them side by side, and the key idea is that everything is controlled per account-and-channel pair: you decide which channels trade on which accounts, and you can pause one pairing without touching the others. This page covers assigning channels to accounts, the per-account controls (pause, Risk Limits, default profile), and the account switcher.
Why run multiple accounts
| Setup | Accounts | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Test & Trade | Demo + Live | Vet new channels on demo before committing real capital. |
| Risk Segmentation | Two live accounts | Separate risk profiles — conservative on one, aggressive on the other. |
| Prop Challenge | Demo + Prop Firm | Run a funded challenge while keeping a practice account for testing. |
| Full Stack | Demo + Live + Prop Firm | Test, trade real, and run a challenge all at once. |
Adding accounts
You add accounts from the Accounts page (app.telegramtometatrader.com/dashboard/accounts → Add Account), the same flow as your first. Each account gets its own connection, its own health, and its own settings.
Account count is tied to your plan. The Master tier includes up to 5 trading accounts, with more available as add-on slots. See Billing management and Subscription plans for the limits and add-on pricing.
Channel-account assignments (the core model)
A channel-account assignment is the explicit link between one channel and one account. When you follow a channel, TTMT creates a default assignment to your primary account. With multiple accounts you can add assignments (route a channel to more accounts), remove them, and pause or resume each one independently.
This is the assignment-only model: the per-pairing assignment status — active or paused — is what actually controls signal flow, not a channel-wide on/off switch. A channel can be active on one account and paused on another at the same time.
You manage assignments from the channel's Execution settings (see Channel settings), where every account the channel can trade on appears with its own active/paused control.
One signal, every assigned account (broadcast)
When a channel you've assigned to three active accounts posts a signal, TTMT places a separate trade on each — one signal becomes N trades, each with its own profit and loss and its own risk. This is broadcast.
Here Gold Signals VIP trades on Demo and Live, Forex Daily trades on Live and Prop Firm, and Crypto Scalper trades only on Demo. For the full mirror-vs-divergence story and the prop-firm caveat, see One signal, many accounts.
Independent pause / resume
Each assignment pauses and resumes on its own. A few practical uses:
- Testing a new channel: assign it active on Demo and paused on Live; watch demo for a few weeks, then resume the Live assignment when results earn it — no re-setup.
- Pausing for news: pause your Live assignments before high-impact news, keep Demo active to observe, resume Live afterward.
- Account maintenance: pause every assignment on one account (margin call, password change) while your other accounts keep trading.
Auto-pause is per assignment too. When TTMT auto-pauses a channel on an account — for example, after repeated failures — it pauses just that account's assignment and leaves the same channel running on your other accounts. So if a channel starts failing on the prop account because a symbol isn't supported there, TTMT pauses only the prop pairing; the channel keeps trading on demo and live untouched.
Granular control
You can pause one channel on one account while it stays active elsewhere. Gold too volatile today? Pause it on Live and keep it running on Demo and your Prop Firm account.
Per-account Risk Limits
Risk Limits are set per account, not globally. Each account card has its own Risk Limits toggle, its own daily-loss threshold, and its own HALTED / 70% state — one account can halt while the others keep trading. On a volatile day, the live account can trip its limit and show the HALTED chip while the prop and demo accounts keep running, because each carries its own cap.
This is the right tool for prop-firm accounts: set the prop account's threshold below the firm's own daily-loss rule so TTMT pulls you out first. See Risk Limits and halt for the halt, resume, and recalibrate mechanics.
Each account halts on its own
One account hitting its Risk Limit doesn't stop the others. The halt is scoped to the account that breached.
Default trading profile per account
Each account can have its own default config profile, which overrides your global default for channels traded on that account. This is how you make the same channel trade conservatively on your prop account and normally on your live account without editing the channel itself — one channel, two behaviors, set by the per-account default profile. See Applying profiles.
The account switcher
The row of account pills in the dashboard header is the account switcher. There's an All view that aggregates across every account, plus one pill per account. Selecting a pill filters the Live View, Trade Log, and Performance pages to that account's data. Demo accounts show a small "Demo info" ⓘ on their pill — see the demo account note for why demo behaves differently.
What's independent vs shared
Independent (per account):
| Feature | Scope |
|---|---|
| Balance & Equity | Per account |
| Connection Health | Per account (each has its own connection) |
| Open Positions | Per account |
| Risk Limits | Per account (own toggle, threshold, and halt state) |
| Trade History | Per account |
| Channel Assignments | Per account-channel pair |
Shared (user-level):
| Feature | Scope |
|---|---|
| Channel Library | The same channels are available everywhere |
| Config Profiles | Assignable to any channel-account pair |
| Telegram connection | One Telegram account feeds all your MetaTrader accounts |
| Account settings | A user-level default plus per-account overrides |
Don't blindly mirror onto a prop account
Prop firms have their own rules. Assigning your full live channel set to a prop account can breach its drawdown limits. See One signal, many accounts before mirroring everywhere.
Ideal Settings & Trading Strategy
Scenario 1 — Conservative ramp-up (capital preservation)
Setup: Trader with Demo + a small ($5k) personal Live account, evaluating 2-3 channels.
Settings:
- Demo: every candidate channel assigned and active
- Live: only channels that proved out on demo, assigned active with small lots; new channels assigned but paused
- Default profile per account: conservative on Live (4 layers x 3 orders, Progressive TP, small lot), standard on Demo
- Risk Limits: ON for both accounts; Live threshold = a one-day loss you can absorb
Why: Demo does the vetting, live trades only the proven channels at a size that won't sting, and paused live assignments let you promote a channel with one click once it earns it.
Watch for: Forgetting a channel is still paused on Live and wondering why it isn't trading there — check the per-account assignment status.
Switch when: You're consistently green and want to separate strategies by risk → Scenario 2.
Scenario 2 — Risk segmentation (balanced / moderate)
Setup: Profitable trader with two live accounts — a main account and a higher-risk "satellite."
Settings:
- Main Live: conservative/swing channels, standard lots, Progressive TP, Risk Limits with a moderate daily threshold
- Satellite Live (smaller balance): aggressive scalper/crypto channels, tighter Risk Limit, possibly Balanced or Extended TP
- Default profile per account tuned to each account's risk
- Crypto channels isolated to the satellite (different volatility profile than forex)
Why: Segmenting by account means a blow-up on the aggressive satellite can't drain the main account — the satellite's small balance is the natural cap, reinforced by its own Risk Limit.
Watch for: Over-funding the satellite until it stops being a "small bet." Keep its balance genuinely limited.
Switch when: You add a funded challenge → Scenario 3.
Scenario 3 — Prop-firm challenge alongside personal accounts (diverse / rule-bound)
Setup: Trader running Demo + personal Live + a funded Prop Firm account.
Settings:
- Prop account: ONLY low-drawdown, well-vetted channels assigned active; Risk Limits ON with a threshold BELOW the firm's daily-loss rule; conservative default profile (smaller lot, earlier TP)
- Live account: your normal channel set and profile
- Demo: still used to vet new channels before they touch either real account
- Do NOT mirror the full live channel set onto the prop account
Why: The prop account's success depends on never breaching the firm's rules. A tighter Risk Limit and a hand-picked, low-drawdown channel set protect the funding; demo keeps your vetting routine alive.
Watch for: Symbol coverage on the prop broker (often unusual suffixes) — verify Symbol Mapping right after assigning channels there. And remember broadcast means a single signal still fires on every active account — the prop account is not insulated just because it's "different."
Switch when: You pass the challenge or the firm changes its rules → re-tune the prop account's Risk Limit and channel set.