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.
Copying your own trades across your own accounts and copying someone else's signals are different things — and prop-firm rulebooks treat them differently. What the rules distinguish, and why 'undetectable' is the wrong feature to shop for.
ESMA Decision 2018/796 is now into year eight. The 1:30 cap on majors, retail loss warnings, and negative-balance protection still anchor every CFD broker offering EU residents an account. Here is the 2026 view, cleaned up.