Multiple take profit signals: how a copier handles TP1, TP2 and TP3
A signal with three targets can be split, closed at the first, held to the last or left without a target. Here is what each does to the result, with one worked trade.
A signal copier handles a signal with TP1, TP2 and TP3 in one of four ways: split the position across the targets, close everything at the first, hold the whole position for the last, or set no target and let the room's messages close it. The choice decides how much of a winning trade you keep and how much a pullback after TP1 costs you, so it deserves more thought than the lot size.
CopySignals is a cloud Telegram signal copier for MT4, MT5 and eTrader: it reads the rooms you already follow through your own Telegram account and places the trades on your own broker account. Take profits are one of the settings it keeps per trading account. This page explains the four choices with one worked trade, what each does to the result, and what to check before you go live.
What do TP1, TP2 and TP3 mean in a signal?
They are three exit prices for the same trade, ordered by distance from the entry. A typical post reads "Buy EURUSD 1.0850, SL 1.0820, TP1 1.0880, TP2 1.0910, TP3 1.0950". The room is saying that it expects to take profit in stages, and it usually follows up in the chat as each level is reached.
A copier has to decide what your account does with those three numbers. The room does not tell it, because the room is thinking about its own account. Whoever writes the post may close half at TP1 and let the rest run, or close everything at TP2. The copier applies your rule, not theirs, unless you tell it to follow their follow-up messages.
How does a Telegram signal copier handle multiple take profits?
On CopySignals you pick one of four behaviours for each trading account:
- Split across the targets. You give each target a weight, for example 50/30/20, and that share of the position closes at that target.
- First target only. The trade is sized and closed against TP1, and the later targets are ignored.
- Run to the last. One position, one take profit at the final target.
- No take profit. Nothing is set on the trade, and the exit comes from the room's messages, a stop or your own hand.
Because the setting belongs to the account, one signal can drive a small personal account that runs to the last target and a larger funded account that takes the first target only, with the room never knowing. The same idea runs through copying one signal to several prop firm accounts, where each account has its own limits.
What does each choice do to the result?
The table uses an invented trade to show the arithmetic, not a real one. A EURUSD buy at 1.0850 with the stop at 1.0820, targets at 1.0880, 1.0910 and 1.0950, so the stop is 30 pips away and the targets are 30, 60 and 100 pips away. The position is 0.10 lots, which is 1 USD a pip on a USD account. Spread and commission are left out. Scenario A is price reaching TP1 and then falling back to the stop. Scenario B is price reaching all three targets.
| Setting | A: TP1, then the stop | B: all three targets |
|---|---|---|
| First target only | +30 USD | +30 USD |
| Split 50/30/20, stop unchanged | 0 USD (+15 at TP1, then the other 0.05 lots lose 15) | +53 USD (15 + 18 + 20) |
| Split 50/30/20, break even after TP1 | +15 USD | +53 USD |
| Run to the last target | -30 USD | +100 USD |
Read across the rows and the trade-off is plain. Taking the first target only caps the good days and softens the bad ones. Running to the last gives the most on a full run and the most back on a reversal. Splitting sits between them, and adding break even after the first target turns scenario A from flat into a small gain. The cost is a case the table does not show: price drops back to the entry after TP1 and then goes on to TP3, where the moved stop would have closed the rest early. Which row suits you depends on how the room's trades tend to behave, and that is something you learn from its history, not from us. Trading carries risk, and none of these settings removes it.
The stop move is covered in break even and partial close from signal updates. Here the point is only that weights and break even work together, and you should decide them together.
Which take profit setting fits which room?
Look at how the room actually behaves, in the chat history, before you choose. Three patterns come up.
A room that posts three targets and reports each one as it is hit is written for a staged exit, so a split with weights matches it. A room that posts three targets but mostly closes the whole trade at TP2 is closer to a first-target or last-target style, and a split that leaves 20 percent open for TP3 may sit through reversals the room never held through. A room that posts an entry and a stop with no target at all, and closes trades with a message, needs the no take profit setting and a word filter for its closing phrases.
None of this is advice on which room to follow. It is a matter of matching your rule to the way that room already trades, so your account does not behave differently from the account the signals were written for. The chat history of any room you follow gives you the sample. Copy it on a demo account first and compare, as the Telegram trade copier setup guide suggests for every setting.
Can a small lot be split across three targets?
Only if the pieces are lots your broker accepts. Take 0.03 lots with weights of 50/30/20. The shares are 0.015, 0.009 and 0.006. If your broker's smallest lot is 0.01, none of the three is a real size, and a copier has to round or skip. Every broker sets its own minimum and step, so look them up on the symbol's specification page in your terminal.
The practical rule is to work backwards. Decide how many pieces you want, multiply by the broker's minimum, and that is the smallest position that can be split that way. Below it, use a first-target-only or run-to-the-last setting, or fewer targets. If you size by risk, the lot size from risk percent can land on a number that does not divide, so check the placed lots on a demo account and compare them with your own calculation.
What can go wrong with several take profits?
The room posts more targets than you planned for. Some rooms post four or five. Check on a demo how your weights map to the number of targets in a post, and set the weights for the rooms you copy, not for an imagined average.
A target that is already behind price. A late post can arrive when the market has passed TP1. The event log shows what the copier decided with that post and why, so read it for the first few days.
Gold and other wide-spread symbols. A tight TP1 next to a wide spread can leave little of the first target after costs. A maximum spread filter helps. The gold signal copier guide covers the symbol side.
A terminal that is off when a target is reached. If the exits depend on a terminal on your own computer, a closed laptop is a missed partial close. The MetaTrader terminals for CopySignals accounts run on our servers, one per account, so nothing at home has to stay on.
What do other Telegram copiers say about several targets?
Most of them list it. Telegram Signals Copier's home page lists "Open up to TP5", "Combine the different TP levels" and "Automatic SL to entry after TP1" among its functions. The page does not say how the lot is divided between the levels.
TelegramFXCopier's features page says you can specify lot size percentages for each TP level, with the example of 25% at TP1 and 75% at TP2. It adds that these allocations are set per channel, so each provider can follow its own partial close strategy, and that when the first TP hits the stop moves to breakeven.
trade2sync lists "Percentage of TPs / partial close" among its features, and Copygram's home page names "Signals Percentage Lot per Take Profit (TP)" among the account settings you can adjust. Neither page goes into how the split works, so their sites do not say how they handle a lot too small to divide.
So splitting by percentage is common across the field. TelegramFXCopier's page mentions setting the split per channel. CopySignals sets it per trading account, which is the level where the sizes differ between a personal and a funded account. For a side by side look at more products see the comparison of Telegram signal copiers.
Set take profits on CopySignals
- Connect your own Telegram account and the trading account, as in the guide to copying Telegram signals to MT5. MT4 and eTrader work the same way.
- Set the sizing method and the maximum lot for the account.
- Choose the take profit behaviour: weights across the targets, first only, run to the last, or none.
- Choose break even after a number of targets if you want the stop moved, and read the section above before you pick the number.
- Run a demo account for a few days and compare each placed lot and each exit with the room's own posts on the event log.
- Go live at a small size, then raise it once the log holds no surprises.
The Telegram to MT5 copier page shows the product. Plans start at $14 a month for one trading account, $29 for three and $149 for thirty. Every plan includes the whole product, and there is a 30 day money back guarantee. Details are on the pricing page. CopySignals supports MT4, MT5 and eTrader only.
Sources
- Telegram Signals Copier home page, functions list, Telegram Signals Copier, checked 26 September 2026
- TelegramFXCopier features page, lot percentage per TP, TelegramFXCopier, checked 26 September 2026
- trade2sync Telegram signal copier page, features list, trade2sync, checked 26 September 2026
- Copygram home page, account settings, Copygram, checked 26 September 2026