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We built a router, not a strategy.
A letter from the founder: why PipSync is plumbing, not alpha — and how that shapes every product decision we make.
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not strategy
not strategy
Notes de terrain depuis le routeur
Notes depuis l'intérieur des tuyaux.
Analyses techniques approfondies, post-mortems de trades et prises de position tranchées de l'équipe qui construit PipSync. Pas de growth hacks, pas de platitudes LinkedIn — juste ce que nous apprenons en livrant.
Ce sont des notes de terrain, pas des essais finalisés. Certains articles portent sur des travaux de préparation au lancement encore en attente — signalés dans le texte lorsque c'est pertinent.
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Copy
Telegram
Telegram
● Engineering
How to Copy Telegram Signals to MT5 Automatically in 2026
Server-side automation for Telegram-to-MT5 signal copy. Live channel parsing, risk gates, no VPS. Cloud setup guide for retail and prop traders.
Prop firms &
copiers, honestly
copiers, honestly
● Compliance
Do prop firms allow trade copiers? The honest answer
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.
The bill behind
the list price
the list price
● Product
The true cost of a Telegram signal copier
The subscription is the visible line item. Trading-API fees, VPS rental, setup weekends and outage risk are the invisible ones. A framework for comparing what a copier setup really costs.
Latency claims,
decoded
decoded
● Engineering
What copier latency claims actually measure
A single milliseconds figure on a landing page sounds precise. It usually describes one step out of five. How to read latency marketing — and how honest measurement works.
Prop firm
survival
survival
● Trading
Surviving a prop-firm challenge in 2026: rule changes, payout patterns, and what actually works
Prop firms have changed dramatically since 2023. Tightened rules, payout caps, broader instrument restrictions. A long-form breakdown of what passing — and getting paid — actually requires now.
Risk
controls
controls
● Trading
Risk controls that survive 2026's volatility regime: a long-form playbook
Volatility can come back in bursts: large single-day index and crypto moves are possible even when the average week is quiet. A complete guide to risk controls that actually work in the current environment.
ESMA
leverage 2026
leverage 2026
● Compliance
ESMA leverage caps in 2026: what actually changed for European retail traders
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.
MetaAPI
off
off
● Engineering
Why we removed MetaAPI — a self-hosted alternative for MT5 routing
Cloud-hosted MT5 bridges are convenient until you need control: latency, cost-per-account, vendor lock-in, audit evidence. Here is the migration story.
Webhook
drops
drops
● Trading
TradingView webhooks: every drop mode, every fix, and the setup that actually survives 2026
A long-form practitioner's guide to TradingView webhook reliability. Every silent failure mode we have ever debugged, the receiver architecture that survives the busy minutes, and the operational disciplines that separate working pipelines from frustrated traders staring at unfired alerts.
Telegram
rate limits
rate limits
● Engineering
Telegram bots and rate limits: how they work and how to stay inside them
Telegram bot rate limits can bite signal-routing bots. If yours is mysteriously falling behind, you may be the reason.
Routing
latency
latency
● Engineering
How we benchmark broker routing before launch
A deep dive into gateway placement, broker acknowledgements, and the telemetry we require before publishing latency claims publicly.
Server-side
SL/TP
SL/TP
● Product
Server-side SL/TP is the only SL/TP that matters: a deep dive
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.
ECB
postmortem
postmortem
● Risk
Anatomy of a news trade: what one ECB minute does to a signal
A practical look at how news conditions break signal assumptions, and where risk controls actually have to step in.
Copy-trading
is broken
is broken
● Opinion
Copy-trading is broken. Here is what replaces it.
The industry has spent a decade patching a fundamentally misaligned incentive. Time for a clean slate.
XAU/USD
session
session
● Trading
XAU/USD intraday: how the London-NY overlap shapes the day
Gold's most-tradeable intraday window is the four hours when London and New York are both open. The character of the move inside that window has changed in 2026.
Regex
to one LLM
to one LLM
● Engineering
The parser rewrite: from a pile of regexes to one tiny LLM
How we shipped a deterministic parser with an LLM fallback for the messy Telegram formats that regexes struggle with.
Security
receipts
receipts
● Security
How we handle broker credentials while hardening key management
A walkthrough of our audit trail, app-managed encryption, and the launch-readiness work still pending for external key-management evidence.
Several
challenge accounts
challenge accounts
● Product
One signal, several challenge accounts: routing one strategy across multiple prop accounts
Prop-firm traders run the same strategy across multiple accounts to parallelise the path to a funded payout. Why generic copy-trading routers struggle with this, how to think about it from first principles, and what PipSync does and does not do about it.
Zero
downtime
downtime
● Engineering
Planning database upgrades without marketing the drill
A play-by-play of the scripts, rollback checks, rehearsal notes, and the evidence we want before calling an upgrade zero-downtime.