Config Profiles in MarketSync: One Setup, Multiple Strategies

MarketSync config profiles are reusable copy-setting presets you can apply to any signal source in one click, so a prop firm account and a personal account can run completely different risk rules without re-entering settings each time.

If you run more than one Telegram signal source, or copy trades onto both a personal account and a prop firm account, you'll know the problem quickly: one set of copy settings never fits every situation. A scalping channel needs tight stops and quick take-profits. A prop firm account needs conservative sizing that respects a drawdown rule. Rebuilding these settings by hand every time you add a source or account gets tedious and error-prone.

MarketSync config profiles solve this by letting you build a set of copy-trading rules once and apply it to any signal source with one click. Instead of manually re-entering lot sizing, take-profit logic and stop-loss handling on every channel and account, you create a profile, name it, and link it to whichever source needs it. Change the profile once, and every source using it updates automatically.

This article covers what a config profile actually contains, when to create a new one versus edit an existing one, how to build and apply profiles step by step, and how to handle the trickier cases: one signal feeding a prop account and a personal account with different risk settings, or a single channel that needs a one-off exception without breaking the profile it's normally linked to.

What Is a Config Profile in MarketSync?

A config profile is a reusable preset of copy-trading settings. You build it once, give it a name, and apply it to any signal source in your account. It's a live template, not a one-off copy: edit the profile later and every source using it updates with it.

What a profile deliberately does not do is touch your account-level risk protections. Those stay fixed on the MT account itself, regardless of which profile is running on top of them. This separation matters — it means a profile can never accidentally loosen the guardrails you've set for an account, even if you're switching between conservative and aggressive presets on different sources.

Included in a config profile:

Position sizing / lot settings
Take-profit settings (mode, level, R:R)
Stop-loss protection
Pending order handling
Spread compensation
Layering

Excluded from a config profile (always stays on the MT account):

Max open trades
Daily loss limit
Daily profit target

In practice, this means a profile controls how a signal gets sized and managed, while the account itself controls how much risk the account as a whole is allowed to take on in a day. You can apply the same aggressive lot-sizing profile to two different accounts, and each account's own daily loss limit still applies independently and can't be overridden by anything in the profile.

When to Create a New Profile vs Edit an Existing One

The decision isn't complicated once you frame it around what actually changes. If you're adjusting how one existing strategy behaves — say, tightening the stop-loss on a profile you already use — edit it. Every source linked to that profile picks up the change immediately, and you don't need to touch anything else.

Create a new profile instead when you're introducing a genuinely different risk approach that needs to exist alongside the old one, not replace it.

The clearest example is running a prop firm account next to a personal account. Say you've built a conservative profile for the prop account: smaller lot sizing relative to account balance, a tighter take-profit target, and stop-loss protection enabled by default, because a prop firm's drawdown rules leave little room for error. Separately, you run an aggressive profile on your personal account: larger position sizing, a wider R:R target, and layering enabled to build into a position as a signal develops.

These need to be two distinct profiles, not one profile you edit back and forth. If you tried to use a single profile and manually adjust it every time you wanted to trade one account differently from the other, you'd be relying on remembering to switch settings before every signal — and one missed switch means the wrong risk profile is live on the wrong account. Two named profiles, each linked permanently to the relevant source-account pairing, removes that risk entirely. Edit the conservative one and only the prop account setup changes; edit the aggressive one and only the personal account setup changes.

How to Create, Name, and Apply a Config Profile

Building a profile is a linear process, and once it's done you can reuse it indefinitely.

Open Config Profiles from the sidebar, or go directly to /config-profiles.
Create a new profile.
Configure the settings it will bundle: lot sizing, take-profit mode/level/R:R, stop-loss protection, pending order handling, spread compensation, and layering.
Give the profile a unique name. Names must be unique per user — if you try to reuse a name already assigned to another profile, the save will be rejected, so it's worth adopting a naming convention early (for example, naming by strategy and risk level: "Prop-Conservative", "Gold-Scalp-Aggressive").
Open the relevant account's Sources tab, select the signal source you want to link, and use the Choose a config profile card to apply it. This replaces that source's current settings with the profile's settings and links the source to the profile going forward.

A profile can be applied to an entire Telegram channel, or to a single forum topic within a channel individually — useful if one channel posts several distinct types of setups across different topics and you want different sizing logic for each.

Turning an Existing Source's Setup Into a Reusable Profile

If you've already got a source running with settings you've tuned over time, you don't need to rebuild that logic from scratch inside the profile editor. Two tools handle this conversion, and they behave differently depending on how much of the source's setup you want carried over.

Convert current settings to a profile takes everything currently configured on that source — the full settings, not just what you've manually changed — and turns it into a new profile, which is then reapplied to the source. Copying continues to run exactly as it did before; the only change is that the source's settings are now backed by a reusable profile you can apply elsewhere.

Save as a config profile works differently: it snapshots only the settings you've customised for that source, rather than converting the entire configuration. This is the better option when a source is mostly running default behaviour and you've only tweaked one or two things — you end up with a leaner profile that reflects just the deliberate changes you made, rather than everything the source happened to be running.

Either way, once the profile exists, you can apply it to other sources the same way you'd apply any other profile.

Matching Profiles to Strategies and Signal Sources

The real value of profiles shows up once you're running more than one strategy through the same MT terminal. Consider a trader following two Telegram channels: one posts fast gold scalps with tight stops and quick exits, the other posts slower swing setups held over days.

A scalping profile — small fixed lot size, tight stop-loss protection, a low R:R take-profit target set for quick exits, spread compensation enabled to account for the wider spreads scalping often runs into — gets applied to the fast-moving channel.
A swing profile — larger position sizing relative to account risk, a wider R:R target, layering enabled to add to positions as they develop, pending orders allowed to sit longer — gets applied to the slower channel.

Both channels feed the same MT terminal, but each one copies according to its own profile. There's no manual re-entry of settings when switching attention between the two, and no risk of a fast scalp being sized and managed as if it were a multi-day swing trade, or vice versa.

Running One Signal Across Multiple Accounts With Different Profiles

The same underlying mechanism handles the prop-firm-plus-personal-account scenario directly. A single Telegram source can be attached to more than one MT account, and each attachment carries its own settings — including its own linked profile.

So the same channel can feed:

A prop firm account, with the conservative profile applied: smaller lots, tighter stops, stricter take-profit targeting.
A personal account, with the aggressive profile applied: larger lots, wider R:R, layering switched on.

Each account keeps its own account-level risk limits — max open trades, daily loss limit, daily profit target — completely untouched by either profile. The prop account's drawdown protections stay exactly as strict as you set them, regardless of how aggressively the personal account is configured, and neither profile can loosen those account-level rules even if you wanted it to. One signal, two accounts, two entirely different risk outcomes, with no manual re-entry required each time a signal comes in.

Editing, Duplicating, and Deleting Profiles Without Breaking Your Setup

Because a profile is a live template rather than a static copy, editing it has an immediate, account-wide effect: every source currently linked to that profile updates the moment you save the change. There's no need to reapply it manually to each linked source — that happens automatically as part of editing. This is what makes profiles genuinely reusable rather than just a slightly faster way to enter the same settings repeatedly.

If you want to build a variation of an existing profile without disturbing the original, duplicate it. Duplicating clones the profile with a name like "(copy)" appended, giving you a starting point you can then rename and adjust into a genuinely new profile — useful when a new strategy is 80% the same as an existing one and only needs a couple of settings changed.

Deleting a profile is deliberately restricted. The config profiles page shows "Used by N sources" against any profile currently linked to one or more sources, and the delete button stays disabled until you detach it from all of them. This stops you from accidentally deleting a profile that's actively running on live signal sources. Once a profile is deleted, sources that were using it are not affected retroactively — they keep whatever settings they had at that point, unchanged.

Overriding a Profile on One Source Without Losing It Everywhere

Sometimes one channel needs a single exception without justifying a whole new profile. MarketSync handles this through per-source overrides.

If you manually change a copy setting on a source that currently has a profile applied — for example, switching that source's take-profit mode to Custom instead of following the profile's TP logic — that source automatically unlinks from the profile. It keeps its own custom values going forward and stops following any future edits made to the profile it used to be attached to. This applies to any of the settings a profile controls: TP mode, which TP level to attach, lot size, layering, or pending-order handling.

This is useful when one channel out of several linked to the same profile needs a genuinely different setting permanently, but you don't want to build an entirely separate profile just for that one case.

If the override was only meant to be temporary, or you decide the source should go back to following the shared profile, re-applying the profile brings that source back under its control — its settings are replaced with the profile's current values again, and it resumes following future edits to that profile.

Testing a Profile Before It Goes Live

Applying a new or edited profile directly to a live signal source means the next incoming signal is sized and managed under whatever rules you've just set — with no dry run in between. For anyone who's set up a profile with new lot sizing or a different take-profit target, that's a reasonable thing to want to check before it touches real money.

The Signal Simulator, at /backtest, lets you load settings from a config profile and preview how an incoming signal would be sized and managed under those exact rules — before that profile ever touches a live source. It's a useful step between building a profile and putting it to work, particularly when you've changed take-profit R:R or lot sizing logic and want to see the resulting numbers before the next real signal arrives.

A practical way to start: open /config-profiles, use Convert current settings to a profile on a source you already have running, and apply it to a live signal once you're satisfied with how it behaves in the simulator. That gives you a working profile built from settings you already trust, ready to reuse on any other source or account that needs the same risk treatment.

Frequently asked questions

Do config profiles apply to MT4 and MT5 accounts the same way?

Profiles work at the level of copy settings — lot sizing, take-profit, stop-loss, pending orders, spread compensation and layering — which apply the same way regardless of which MT platform the account runs on. The account-level risk limits that sit outside the profile (max open trades, daily loss limit, daily profit target) remain on the MT account itself in either case.

Is there a limit to how many config profiles I can create?

No. You can create as many config profiles as you need, which is useful once you're running several strategies or several signal sources that each need distinct risk treatment.

Are config profiles available on every MarketSync plan, or only paid tiers?

Config profiles are available on every MarketSync plan. There's no upgrade required to build or apply them.

Does changing a config profile affect trades that are already open?

No. Copy settings, including everything inside a profile, apply per account and per source and only take effect on the next signal that comes in. Editing a profile never retroactively modifies a trade that's already open.

No. Profiles are built and applied within a single user's account and aren't shared or transferred between different MarketSync users.

What does 'No profile · not copying' mean on a source?

On some setups, a source needs a config profile applied before it will copy signals at all. If you see "No profile" or "No profile · not copying" against a source, it means no profile has been linked yet and that source isn't currently copying — applying a profile through the source's "Choose a config profile" card resolves it.

Where to take this next

If you're currently running one set of copy settings across every source and account, the first useful move is converting whatever's already working into a profile using Convert current settings to a profile, then testing it against a fresh signal in the Signal Simulator before relying on it elsewhere. From there, building a second profile for the next account or strategy that needs different risk treatment is a matter of minutes, not a rebuild from scratch — and trading, whichever profile is running, still carries risk that no set of settings removes entirely.