Spotware Systems has integrated with Pelican Network, a UK-headquartered copy trading infrastructure provider, giving cTrader brokers access to an external pool of more than 9,000 live trading strategies sourced from around 70 brokers worldwide, the two companies said today (Thursday).

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The practical impact will depend on broker adoption and how many of Pelican's existing strategy providers opt to make their trades available through the cTrader channel. G4Trade is the first cTrader broker live on the integration, the companies said, marking Pelican's first deployment with a Spotware-powered broker.

cTrader Brokers Get a New Route to Third-Party Strategy Content

Under the agreement, cTrader brokers can plug into Pelican's cross-broker network, which the provider says currently supplies copy trading infrastructure to a number of larger retail brands including IC Markets, Deriv and Pepperstone.

Pelican delivers white-label copy trading solutions across mobile, web and desktop, the companies said, with API support available for brokers that want deeper customization or integration into proprietary systems.

"In copy trading, content is everything. Without it, you're effectively launching an empty product," Mike Read, Director at Pelican Network, said, adding that the partnership with cTrader allows Pelican to bring its ecosystem into "one of the most fast-growing trading environments in the market."

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Spotware has offered a native copy trading tool, cTrader Copy, since 2018. The platform's previous approach to social trading has focused on strategies operating within individual cTrader brokers, although earlier work has pushed the feature across broker boundaries.

IC Markets, for example, embedded the cTrader Copy widget into its client area last year to let customers access strategies without logging out of the broker's site. The Pelican tie-up adds a second, externally managed strategy pool on top of that native offering.

Cross-Platform Copy Trading Is the Bigger Play

Beyond the strategy volume, the integration introduces cross-platform copy trading capabilities, according to Spotware, meaning strategies can in principle operate across different trading infrastructures rather than being locked into a single platform or broker silo.

That framing fits with Spotware's "Open Trading Platform " positioning, which the company has used to describe its push to integrate third-party services via APIs and plugins.

Yiota Hadjilouka, chief operating officer at Spotware, said the Pelican partnership reflects that approach "in action," adding that the integration is aimed at "expanding the depth and activity of copy trading by opening access to a broader strategy network."

Copy Trading Infrastructure Market Gets Crowded

The Pelican integration lands in a trading technology segment where competition for copy trading infrastructure has been stepping up. Rival providers have been expanding cross-platform functionality, broker-side tools and direct integrations with major platforms in parallel, turning what was once a niche product into a standard line item on most retail broker roadmaps.

Brokeree Solutions, one of the more visible competitors, launched a new Integration API in March that it said would allow brokers to embed its Social Trading technology on platforms beyond MetaTrader and cTrader. The company had previously connected its system with cTrader to enable cross-server signal copying between MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader, and has since extended support to DXtrade and TraderEvolution.

DXtrade itself partnered with Pelican in a separate deal to integrate the provider's multi-asset copy trader engine and its 9,000-plus signal network directly into the DXtrade platform.

At the broker end, individual firms have been building their own social layers as well. STARTRADER rolled out Web STAR Copy in early April, a web-based copy trading product with strategy performance pages showing historical returns and active copier counts.

Robinhood began beta testing a domestic social trading feature in the United States in March 2026, while Vantage's V Social, which was built on Pelican's technology several years ago, continues to operate in the UK market.

Spotware Keeps Broadening Its Product Lineup

The Pelican deal is the latest move in a push by Spotware to position itself as more than a single-product trading platform vendor. The Cyprus-based company launched cBridge, a standalone liquidity bridge, in March, and followed that earlier this month with cTrader Leads, a program designed to funnel traders from Spotware's ecosystem to participating brokers.

The firm also runs cTrader Store, a marketplace for bots, indicators, copy strategies and prop challenges that Spotware says draws up to 10,000 visits a day.

Spotware CEO Ilia Iarovitcyn told FinanceMagnates.com earlier this year that cTrader recorded 105% year-on-year trading volume growth in 2025 and onboarded 104 new broker and prop firm clients, figures the company has cited publicly but not independently audited.

Financial terms of the Pelican agreement were not disclosed.