Yes, automation is allowed
You can run expert advisors (EAs), trading bots and custom indicators on your UZO MetaTrader 5 account, and you can copy trades between your own UZO accounts. Automation is treated exactly like manual trading: the only thing that matters is that your strategy does not break the prohibited-conduct rules below.
UZO does not penalise you for using tools. An EA, a bot, a script or a custom indicator is simply a faster way to express a trading idea, and on UZO that is welcome. What you cannot do is use any tool to exploit the mechanics of the simulation itself. The same banned-strategy list applies whether you click the buy button by hand or a robot does it for you.
Enabling Algo Trading in MT5 desktop
Expert advisors run only in the MetaTrader 5 desktop application. The MT5 web terminal does not support EAs, so if you intend to automate, install the desktop app for Windows or Mac and log in with your UZO MT5 credentials.
Once you are logged in, switch automation on:
Click the Algo Trading button in the top toolbar (or open Tools, then Options, then Expert Advisors, and allow algorithmic trading). The button turns green when active.
Open the Navigator panel (Ctrl+N) and find your EA under the Expert Advisors folder. If it is not there yet, copy the .ex5 or .mq5 file into the platform's MQL5/Experts folder, then refresh the Navigator.
Drag the EA onto the chart of the instrument you want it to trade, confirm its inputs, and make sure Allow Algo Trading is ticked in the dialog.
Check for a small smiling face in the top-right corner of the chart. That confirms the EA is live and permitted to trade.
Leverage is fixed at 1:100 across UZO, and your EA trades against real live prices with real spreads and commissions applied, so backtest with realistic costs in mind.
Loading a custom indicator
Custom indicators are allowed and load the same way. Place the indicator file in the platform's MQL5/Indicators folder, then open the Navigator panel and look under Indicators. Drag it onto a chart to apply it, or set it as an input for an EA that depends on it.
Indicators only read the price feed and draw on your chart, so they carry no extra rules of their own. They simply help you or your EA decide when to trade.
Copy trading your own accounts
You may copy trades between accounts that you own, for example mirroring your own master account onto another of your UZO accounts. This is fully permitted.
Each account still has to respect its own product rules on its own, including its drawdown limits and, where applicable, its profit target. Copying a position across accounts does not pool or share those limits.
What stays banned even with an EA
Automation never unlocks a prohibited strategy. The following are banned whether they run by hand or by bot, because they game the simulation rather than trade the market:
Latency or HFT arbitrage, exploiting delays between the price feed and execution.
Tick-exploit or tick-scalping, profiting from individual price ticks or feed artefacts rather than genuine price movement.
Anything that games the simulation, any method whose edge comes from the platform's mechanics instead of the real market.
News trading, overnight holds and weekend holds are all allowed, so a fully automated strategy that simply trades the live market is in good standing.
No consistency rule
UZO has no consistency rule. Your EA can have a single big winning day, uneven position sizing, or lumpy returns, and that will not invalidate an evaluation or a payout. We judge the outcome against the published drawdown and target rules, not the shape of your equity curve.
The short version
Run your EAs, bots and indicators freely in MT5 desktop. Keep them away from latency arbitrage, tick exploits and any simulation-gaming, and you are inside the rules.
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