Engineering deep-dives, trade postmortems, and opinionated takes from the team building PipSync. No growth hacks, no LinkedIn platitudes — just what we are learning as we ship.
These are field notes, not finished essays. Some posts cover launch-readiness work still pending — flagged in-line where relevant.
Why we refuse to route orders that rely only on EAs running on your laptop, what actually happens during a news minute, how broker-side stops differ across MT4/MT5/cTrader, and the operational rules that separate sustained accounts from one-bad-headline blow-ups.
Prop-firm traders run identical strategies across multiple accounts to parallelise the path to a funded payout. Why generic copy-trading routers fail at this, how to think about it from first principles, and what we actually built.