How to Use Broadcast
Broadcast is a ClearEdge Automation tool that allows users to automatically follow the trading signals of a specific trader — typically livestreamers, trading educators, or mentors. Broadcasters create signals on specific futures instruments (such as NQ/MQ or GC/MGC), and when they execute trades, those signals are pushed in real time to their followers, who can then have the corresponding trades executed in their own simulated or prop firm account.
Broadcast is designed as an educational tool. It helps followers learn by experiencing a trader's strategy in real time — seeing entries, exits, and timing as they happen — rather than reviewing trades after the fact.
Important: Simulated and Prop Firm Accounts Only
Broadcast is intended for use on simulated (paper trading) accounts or prop firm evaluation and funded accounts. It is not designed or supported for use on personal live brokerage accounts trading real retail capital.
This restriction exists because Broadcast is an educational and skill-development tool. Following another trader's signals is a way to learn strategy, timing, and execution — not a substitute for developing your own trading plan with your own money on the line.
How Broadcast Works
Broadcast operates on a sender-and-receiver model:
Broadcasters create a signal tied to a specific futures instrument (e.g., NQ/MQ, GC/MGC). When they enter or exit a position on that instrument, the trade details are pushed out to anyone following that signal.
Followers subscribe to a Broadcaster's signal and configure it on their own account. When a signal fires, an order is placed in the follower's account based on the parameters they've set.
Each follower's trades are independent. ClearEdge Automation provides the software to facilitate this type of education — it does not pool funds, share accounts, or coordinate executions across users.
Subscribing as a Follower
To follow a Broadcaster, you'll need an invite code issued by that Broadcaster. The invite code grants you access to their signal for a defined period of time.
Once you have the code, the setup process is the same as setting up any other automated strategy in ClearEdge:
Subscribe to Broadcast and enter the invite code provided by your Broadcaster.
Set up the signal on your end, just as you would any automated strategy within ClearEdge.
Connect the signal to your paper or prop firm account.
Configure your own sizing rules and risk parameters (max daily loss, max position size, etc.) to ensure compliance with your prop firm's rules if applicable.
Enable the signal. Once active, qualifying trades from the Broadcaster will trigger orders in your account.
You can pause, resume, or disconnect the signal at any time.
Sizing Is Controlled by the Follower
This is one of the most important things to understand about Broadcast: Broadcasters do not choose position size for their followers.
Broadcasters send the signal — what to trade and when — but each follower configures their own sizing before any trades are executed. This separation exists because traders have different account sizes, different prop firm rules, and different risk tolerances. A position size that works for the Broadcaster may exceed a follower's prop firm drawdown limits. Keeping sizing in the follower's hands ensures each user stays within the rules of their own account.
Broadcaster Tools
Broadcasters have several tools available to manage how their signal is shared and used:
Maximum signals per follower — Limit how many signals an individual follower can set up under one invite.
Maximum followers per signal — Cap the total number of followers allowed on a given signal.
Multi-account copy trading — Choose whether followers are permitted to copy the signal across multiple accounts, or restrict each follower to a single account.
Discord notifications — Automatically send messages to a connected Discord when the Broadcaster starts and ends their stream, so followers know when signals will be active.
Invite code management — Control follower access by issuing time-limited invite codes.
These tools give Broadcasters flexibility in managing their audience and aligning the tool with how they teach.
Important Considerations
Broadcast is for simulated and prop firm accounts only. It is an educational and signal-sharing tool, not a managed account service.
ClearEdge Automation provides the software only. The educational content, signal quality, and trading decisions belong to the Broadcaster. Sizing, risk management, and rule compliance belong to the follower.
Execution may vary between accounts. Slippage, fills, account balances, and platform-specific rules mean a follower's results will not exactly match the Broadcaster's.
Invite codes are time-limited. Access to a Broadcaster's signal expires according to the terms set by the Broadcaster.
Need Help?
If you have questions about entering an invite code, setting up a Broadcast signal, or connecting your paper or prop account, contact ClearEdge support or visit the related help articles.