Reconnect, Reauthorize & Remove Accounts

Every broker connection in MimikTrader sits in one of three states. Knowing what each one means — and what actually happens to your positions and copying while a connection is down — matters more than it might seem, especially for a follower account that's mid-position when its link to the broker drops.

The Three Connection States

• Connected — the connection has a valid token and is active. Trade copying works normally for every account under it.
• Re-auth required — the connection's authorization has expired or hit an error. Copying to the accounts under this connection is paused until you re-authorize.
• Disconnected — the connection is offline. This can be a broker-side or network outage, or a connection you've manually taken offline.

Re-authorizing a Connection

When a connection shows Re-auth required, clicking Re-authorize redirects you to your broker's own OAuth login page — for a Tradovate connection, that's Tradovate's hosted login screen. You log in there, approve the permissions again, and MimikTrader receives a fresh token. Your password is never entered into MimikTrader itself at any point in this flow.

Token expiry is tracked at the connection (user) level, not per individual trading account. If you have several accounts under one Tradovate login and that login's token expires, all of those accounts move to Re-auth required together — and one re-authorize pass covers all of them, since they share the same underlying token.

What Happens While an Account Is Disconnected

This is the part most worth understanding before it happens to you, not during. If a follower account's connection drops while it holds an open position:

• Copying to that follower pauses. New trades from the leader are not sent to a disconnected follower. Every other follower in the group that's still connected keeps copying normally — one follower going offline does not pause the rest of the group.
• The position is not automatically flattened. A disconnect by itself never triggers a close-out. Whatever position the follower was holding when it went offline stays open exactly as it was — MimikTrader does not touch it just because the connection dropped.
• Trades made by the leader during the outage are not replayed when the connection comes back. MimikTrader does not attempt to reconstruct and re-send every individual trade the leader made while you were disconnected.
• On reconnect, there's a flatten-only sync toward the leader's current net position — not a full replay. If the leader is now flat but your follower still shows an open position from before the outage, that residual position is closed to bring you back in line with the leader's current state. This is reconciliation to where the leader is now, not a replay of what happened while you were gone.

Deleting a Connection or Account

Removing a connection is immediate — there's no confirmation step, so it's worth understanding what gets deleted before you click. Deletion cascades differently depending on the account's role in a copy group:

• Deleting a leader account's connection removes the entire group. Every follower in that group is removed along with it — the group cannot exist without its leader.
• Deleting a follower account's connection only removes that one membership. The group itself and its other followers are unaffected.

This cleanup is fully automatic — you won't be left with an orphaned group or a dangling follower reference. Your trading history isn't lost either; activity and reconciliation records tied to the deleted connection are preserved, not deleted along with it.

Quick Reference

• Re-auth required → click Re-authorize → redirected to your broker's login page → approve → fresh token issued.
• Disconnected follower → copying paused for that account only, position left open, no replay on reconnect, flatten-only reconciliation toward the leader's current net.
• Deleting a leader → whole group removed. Deleting a follower → only that membership removed. Flatten first if you don't want an open position left behind.