Options Copy Trading: Broker Fills in Your Account

Quick answer: Options copy trading reproduces a lead trader’s options fill in your brokerage. Same underlying, strike, expiry, and call or put. You set the size. Money stays at your broker. Approve every ticket, or let Pro fire.

Most “copy trading” talk is stocks or forex. Options are a contract job. You need the right strike and expiry, a size that fits your account, and proof the person you follow actually took that fill at a real broker.

Alertsify is that execution layer. Connect the U.S. brokerage you already use. Public stats come from broker fills. Trade your own book, follow someone, or list so others can follow you. Alertsify never holds the cash.

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What options copy trading is

Copy trading for options is not “they bought SPY.” It is:

• the same underlying
• the same strike
• the same expiry
• the same call or put
• buy or sell, at a size you set

If any field is wrong, you did not copy the trade. You took a different one.

It is not a deposit product. You do not send money to Alertsify. You connect Robinhood, Schwab, E*TRADE, Webull, or another full-trade broker through OAuth. Alertsify never sees that password and cannot withdraw.

It is not advice. You pick who (if anyone) to follow. You set the rules. The platform places the order you authorized — or skips it and shows you why.

What it is not

• A screenshot of someone else’s P&L
• A text alert you retype into an option chain
• A closed broker feed you watch, then tap by hand
• A wallet, a prop account, or an adviser

Why options are harder than stocks

Whole contracts. One options contract is 100 shares of exposure. You cannot copy “half a call.” Size must be whole contracts, scaled to your buying power — not the lead’s lot count.

The quote moves. Bid and ask can jump while you are still in the chain. Late entries pay a different trade than the one you meant to copy.

Expiry and assignment. A copied stock sits. A copied option can expire, get assigned, or need a roll. If the system only copies the opener and misses the close, you are holding a leftover — not following.

Multi-leg. Spreads, condors, and rolls are several tickets that have to stay related. A fragment is not copy trading.

How Alertsify does it

1. Broker fills, your size. The lead’s broker reports a fill. Alertsify applies your proportional size and your 14 risk controls. Duplicate-copy protection stops the same ticket from firing twice. If a rule fails, or the quote moved past your slippage guard, the copy is skipped. You see the skip. If it passes, your broker gets the order.

2. Ten brokers, including Robinhood. Full execution: Robinhood, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Webull US, Webull CA, Alpaca, tastytrade, Wealthsimple, Moomoo, TD Ameritrade. Check the connect screen for the live list. Read-only connections exist for a longer list if you only want verified stats.

3. Under a second to the broker. Platform-side: under 200 milliseconds on the homepage claim; under a second to the broker handoff. Your fill is still your broker’s fill. A wide market or a slow queue dominates any of those milliseconds.

4. Tape, not stories. Every public number on a profile is calculated from that trader’s connected brokerage fills. Losses stay. There is no delete-this-trade button. The trust label is how long they have been live and verified — not a star.

Do not buy this because a page said “faster.” Buy it because you stopped retyping alerts.

Find your fit / My P&L

The leaderboard shows the trader at their size. That number is not yours.

My P&L replays that trader’s closed broker fills at your size and your rules. It can come out negative. That is the point — you see what you would have held before you follow.

Find your fit runs the same replay across the board and ranks people by what your account would have been holding. The best trader on the board is usually not the best trader for you.

Broadcast is gone. Every lead fill is sent. You filter. They do not hide.

Lite vs Pro

Plan	What you get	Follow
Free · $0	Leaderboard, verified stats, Discord	No execute
Lite · $99/mo	Your own trades, your stats, the board, monetize later	Optional. Every alert is approve or deny
Pro · $249/mo or $1,997/yr (~$166/mo)	Lite plus auto-execute	Optional tap-to-confirm per trader

Most Lite users never follow anyone. They use Alertsify as the book: place the trade, get the stats the broker will not show, sit on the leaderboard. Following is a switch, not the product.

Lite and Pro start with a 7-day trial. STC, cancels, rejects, and expired orders are free on every tier. Broker commissions are still your broker’s.

Two bills

Software is one bill. The trader is another.

Most leads charge. Some are free. You see that price before you follow. There is no Alertsify per-contract fee.

You may pay three things total: the Alertsify plan, a trader subscription if you follow someone who charges, and your broker’s commissions.

Leads who list keep up to 80% of subscription revenue, on a tier that rises with paying subscriber count. Alertsify handles billing. First 10 subscribers are free for 90 days.

Approve each trade or auto-execute

Lite. If you follow someone, every alert is approve or deny. Nothing hits the broker unless you tap.

Pro. A follow can fire when the lead’s fill hits. You can still require a tap on one trader and leave another on auto. Pause one book without pausing the rest. Freeze everything.

Either way, the kill switch is yours.

Position sizing and the 14 risk controls

One contract is 100 shares. Size first. Then the rules that skip a copy before it reaches the broker:

Daily profit and loss. Freeze. Max risk per trade. Max open exposure. Custom 0DTE sizing. Correlation limit. Minimum open interest. Minimum volume. Spread width. Custom DTE. Block 0DTE. Auto-cancel unfilled. Close-after timer. Per trader: stocks, calls, or puts off.

If you want others to copy your trades

Trade at your broker the way you already do. The tape is the sales page. People see a record they can audit. Charge, or list free. Most charge.

You do not type the room. You take the fill.

Start here

Find my trader — 7-day trial on Lite and Pro. See also how it works, copy trading on Robinhood, how to copy trade options, and supported brokers.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. All trading involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Options can expire worthless. Options trading is not suitable for all investors. Users are solely responsible for their own trading decisions. Alertsify is not an investment adviser, broker-dealer, or fiduciary.