If you trade with algorithms, you are in the right place. UZO is built for serious traders, and serious trading today is often automated. Below is exactly what is permitted, where the line sits, and how to keep your strategy comfortably on the right side of it.

You can run expert advisors and automated bots freely. Load your EA onto MetaTrader 5, or run your automation on TradeLocker or MatchTrader, and trade exactly as you would on any live account. There is no rule that caps how much of your trading is automated versus manual, and no separate approval step to switch automation on.

Your EA operates on the same real market data everyone else gets. UZO streams live prices from third-party feeds and applies real spreads and commissions uniformly, so your bot is reacting to genuine market conditions on simulated capital. The objectives that matter (your drawdown limits, and your profit target where one applies) are the same whether a human or an algorithm places the orders.

Bring your own indicators. Custom indicators, third-party indicator packs, and any analysis tools you have built or bought are all permitted. They are simply tools that inform your decisions or feed your EA, and UZO has no reason to restrict them.

The same goes for trading the news, holding positions overnight, and trading through the weekend on products that support it. None of that is off limits. UZO has no consistency rule, so you are free to let an indicator-driven system trade however the market dictates.

If you want your UZO account to mirror trades from your own personal or master account, that is allowed too. Copying signals you generate yourself is treated as your own trading. What matters is that the strategy is yours, not a scheme designed to exploit how the simulation is built.

What UZO bans is not automation. It is any approach whose edge comes from exploiting the mechanics of a simulated environment rather than from genuinely reading the market. Because UZO mirrors real prices, certain techniques would produce results that could never be reproduced in a live market, and those are prohibited whether a bot or a human runs them.

Latency arbitrage and HFT arbitrage try to profit from tiny timing gaps between feeds rather than from market direction. Tick exploits and tick scalping lean on the granular way ticks arrive in a simulation. Both extract value from how the environment is wired, not from a real trading edge, so both are off the table.

A simple test: would your strategy still work, with the same logic and roughly the same results, on a real live account at a real broker? If yes, you are fine. If its profit depends on quirks of the simulation, timing exploits, or feed mechanics, it is not.