Webhooks vs leader-follower copying — two paths, one risk problem.

You trade the leader account normally. MimikTrader watches fills and replicates them to followers with per-account multipliers, contract conversion, and risk checks before each accept.

Best when your edge is discretionary, you want full chart and DOM control, or you already trade Tradovate, Rithmic, or ProjectX directly and just need the book mirrored.

A strategy alert POSTs JSON to MimikTrader. The platform places the order on the configured leader — entry plus bracket when configured — and followers receive the same signal through the standard copy path.

Best when your entries are systematic, you run the same setup on multiple accounts, or you want cloud execution without a VPS babysitting a desktop platform.

Prefer webhooks when signals already live in Pine Script or another alert-driven system and you want zero re-keying across many accounts — with idempotent retries and native TP/SL at entry.

Prefer leader-follower when you read context live, scale in and out by feel, modify brackets on the fly, or do not want webhook secrets in the workflow at all.

Common hybrid: webhook strategies for systematic evaluation accounts, manual leader trading on funded accounts you manage by hand — separate copy groups, separate risk profiles.

Followers still enforce their own daily loss, trailing drawdown, profit drawdown, and consistency rules. A locked follower skips the trade even when the leader accepts it.

Risk is per account. One bad account should flatten and lock without dragging the rest of the book. MimikTrader does not speak for any prop firm.