Groups, global leader & group leaders
Organise accounts into groups with their own leader alongside the global leader, who copies whom, and what happens when you switch a group off.
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By default every account copies one leader. Groups let you run more than one leader at once: split your accounts into sets, and each set copies its own leader instead of the main one.
The global leader
One account is your global leader (shown as Master in the app). It's the account you trade, and every account that isn't in a group copies it. With no groups set up, that's one leader driving every follower.
What a group is
A group is a named set of accounts with one member promoted to group leader (the crown). The other members copy that leader instead of the global leader. A group needs a name, a leader, and at least one more account alongside the leader.
A group leader is a real account you trade yourself. OmenSyncer watches both your global leader and every group leader for fills, so a group leader's trades drive its own members. A group leader doesn't copy the global leader; it leads its own group.
Who copies whom
| Account | Copies |
|---|---|
| Global leader | Nothing, it's the account you trade. |
| An ungrouped follower | The global leader. |
| A group leader | Nothing, you trade it, and its fills drive its group. |
| A group member | Its own group leader, not the global leader. |
Grouping changes routing, which leader an account follows, not sizing. Each follower still scales off its own leader with its own multiplier; there is no group-level multiplier. See Followers & multipliers.
The global leader can never be in a group
You can't add the global leader to a group. If you could, it would end up copying a group's leader onto itself, which makes no sense for the account that drives everything. In the group editor the global leader shows greyed out and can't be added. To put that account in a group, first make a different account your global leader.
Turning a group off
Each group has an on/off switch. A group only leads its own members while all of these are true:
- The group is switched on.
- It has a leader set.
- That leader account is active and its connection is on.
If any of those isn't true, the group is treated as paused and its members fold back to following the global leader, so they keep trading with everything else instead of freezing behind a leader that's off. Switch the group back on (or set a live leader) and its members return to copying it.
Related
For what happens on each fill, see How copying works. For what keeps members matched to their leader when it exits, see Follower protection.