How to Run Multiple Prop Firm Accounts in One NinjaTrader (VPS Setup Guide)

Funded traders rarely stop at one account. Stack an Apex here, a Tradeify and a Lucid there, and one good session pays out across all of them at once. The hard part isn’t passing the evaluations — it’s the desktop chaos that follows: multiple platforms, multiple logins, duplicate orders placed by hand, and a home PC that installs Windows updates at the worst possible moment.

This guide is the setup we recommend to our own VPS customers: one NinjaTrader, every account in it, on a machine that never sleeps. The piece that makes it possible is PropFirmConnector, a NinjaTrader add-on that connects the Rithmic prop firm accounts NinjaTrader can’t reach on its own.

Can you run multiple prop firm accounts in one NinjaTrader?#

Not natively — stock NinjaTrader 8 holds one live Rithmic connection at a time, and some Rithmic prop firms don’t appear in its connection list at all. The PropFirmConnector add-on removes both limits, so multiple prop firm accounts — Apex, Tradeify, DayTraders.com, and the rest — can run simultaneously in one account list, on one DOM, in one workspace.

That single change is what makes the rest of this setup work. With every account visible in one platform, a local trade copier (Replikanto and Copilink are the common choices) can mirror your lead account’s orders to the rest — no cloud round-trip, no second platform.

Which Rithmic prop firms work with NinjaTrader?#

The most popular Rithmic firms fall into three groups: firms with a native NinjaTrader connection for one account at a time (Apex Trader Funding, Take Profit Trader, Bulenox, Elite Trader Funding, OneUp Trader); firms whose Rithmic account type connects only through the PropFirmConnector add-on (Lucid, Tradeify); and firms with no native NinjaTrader route at all (DayTraders.com, PropShopTrader, HumbleFunding).

PropFirmConnector maintains a verified directory of which prop firms use Rithmic and how each one connects to NinjaTrader — all 68 firms in Rithmic’s ecosystem as of August 2026, each with its own setup guide. Worth checking before your next evaluation purchase; the answer changes firm by firm.

How do you connect a Rithmic prop firm account to NinjaTrader?#

In short: log in to R|Trader Pro once with the firm-issued Rithmic credentials, install the PropFirmConnector DLL, sign in to NinjaTrader 8, create a Rithmic for NinjaTrader Brokerage connection with the firm’s Rithmic login, and connect. These steps come straight from PropFirmConnector’s own connection guides; in our experience the whole thing takes about 15 minutes.

1. Log in to R|Trader Pro once. Use the Rithmic credentials your prop firm issued, accept the pending market-data agreements, and confirm your accounts appear. This one-time activation is the step most connection problems trace back to — do it first, not after something fails.
2. Install PropFirmConnector. Download the ZIP from your PropFirmConnector account, close NinjaTrader completely, and copy NinjaTrader.Custom-pfc.dll into My Documents\NinjaTrader 8\bin\Custom. Start NinjaTrader again; when your browser opens, click Activate this device. There’s no license key to paste anywhere.
3. Sign in to NinjaTrader 8 with your NinjaTrader account credentials (not the firm’s Rithmic login — mixing those up is the classic mistake).
4. Create the connection. In the Control Center: Connections → configure → select Rithmic for NinjaTrader Brokerage, enter the firm-issued Rithmic username and password, name the connection something recognizable, and leave Connect on start up and Plug-in mode off. For System, pick the value shown in your firm’s PropFirmConnector guide: some firms appear under their own name (Apex, Tradeify, Lucid, DayTraders.com, PropShopTrader), while others — Bulenox, Take Profit Trader, Elite Trader Funding, OneUp Trader, HumbleFunding, and most of the catalog — use Rithmic Paper Trading (Chicago). The add-on supplies the firm entries stock NinjaTrader doesn’t list.
5. Connect. Open Connections and click the connection you created. A green status light and the funded account appearing in your account list confirm it. Repeat steps 4–5 for each additional Rithmic login — with the add-on running, they connect side by side instead of kicking each other off.

From there, install your copier, map lead to follower accounts, and trade one chart while every funded account follows.

Why run a multi-account NinjaTrader setup on a VPS?#

Multi-account trading concentrates risk onto one machine — which is an argument for making that machine a dedicated one. A copier mid-session doesn’t survive a laptop going to sleep; a forced Windows restart at 2 a.m. leaves every account it manages unattended at the open. On a trading VPS the platform, the connections, and the copier stay up whether your home internet does or not, and you can check in from a laptop, a desktop, or your phone. The two solve different halves of the same problem: PropFirmConnector puts every account on one machine, and the VPS keeps that machine alive.

Important disclaimer#

A VPS does not guarantee passing prop firm challenges, avoiding rule violations, receiving fills, maintaining third-party uptime, or making profits. It is only hosting infrastructure for the trading workspace. Always review each firm’s rules for automation, copy trading, and account access before mirroring orders between accounts — if a prop firm has a specific policy, that policy controls the account.