Most copiers execute the moment a signal fires. In the United States, that model creates a problem: if someone else's decision moves your money, someone else is trading your account.
4X Solutions Manual Approval Mode keeps the final decision where US rules expect it — with you. Every signal arrives on your phone and in your inbox with the full trade laid out: instrument, direction, and the exact lot size your configuration produces. Approve it, and it executes. Ignore it, and it expires.
Nothing ever trades without your explicit confirmation. Nothing.
Your signal provider opens a trade. Instead of executing on your account, the trade is withheld — not queued, not delayed, withheld.
An SMS and an email arrive with everything you need to decide: the instrument, the direction, and the precise position size calculated from your sizing settings. No surprises after the fact — you see the exact trade before it exists.
Tap through to your secure, account-scoped approvals page and approve or reject. Prefer automation on your own terms? Approvals can be listed, approved and rejected entirely through our API — run your own risk desk, keep the human decision inside your own systems.
If you don't respond, the trade expires and never executes. There is no auto-approval, no default execution, no “we assumed you wanted it.” The safe state is always no trade.
Because this exists for regulatory reasons, we engineered it like it matters:
Strategy-level enforcement turns Manual Approval from a client preference into a business model. Enforce approval across your strategy and every follower confirms every trade — your entire signal business operates on a self-directed basis by policy, not by hoping each client configured it.
Combined with 4X Solutions white-label portals, performance billing and full API, you can launch a US-facing signal service on infrastructure that has run for 18 years and currently connects 50,000+ accounts.
US regulation draws a line between self-directed trading — you make each decision on your own account — and discretionary account management, where someone else trades for you and is generally required to register (as a CTA, RIA or similar) to do it.
Conventional copy trading sits on the wrong side of that line: trades execute on your account because someone else decided. Manual Approval Mode is designed to keep trading self-directed:
This page is general information, not legal advice. Whether a particular arrangement requires registration depends on the facts of that arrangement — if you are operating a signal service for US clients, take advice.
Copy trading itself isn't prohibited — the issues arise around who is making the trading decisions and whether the person making them for others needs to be registered. A copier where trades execute automatically on someone else's decision looks like discretionary management; a flow where you receive full trade details and must positively confirm each trade keeps the decision with you.
The trade expires. It never executes. There is no timeout-execution and no default approval.
Yes. Manual Approval works with zero notification channels if you prefer — pending approvals can be listed, approved and rejected entirely via API.
Yes — strategy-level enforcement applies Manual Approval to every follower of that strategy, and followers cannot opt out.
Yes. The notification shows the exact size your own configuration produces for this trade, before anything executes.
Six months, with status and timestamps.
Eighteen years of infrastructure. 50,000+ connected accounts. And a copy mode built for the one market everyone else avoids.
