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 may run expert advisors and automated bots. Load your EA onto MetaTrader 5, or run your automation on TradeLocker, and trade as you would on any live account. There is no cap on how much of your trading is automated rather than manual.

Two straightforward conditions apply, and both are there to keep the field fair for everyone. First, the EA should represent a genuine strategy that you own and understand, with your own distinctive parameters. Running an identical, off-the-shelf configuration across accounts is not permitted. Second, an EA may run only on accounts held in your own name. Automation is welcome; using it to copy other people, to run one shared configuration across many accounts, or to exploit the mechanics of the simulation is not.

Your EA reacts to the same real, live market prices as every other trader, on simulated capital. The objectives that matter, your drawdown limits and your profit target where one applies, are identical 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 we have no reason to restrict them.

The same goes for trading the news, holding positions overnight and trading through the weekend on instruments that trade then. None of that is off limits. UZO applies only a soft Best Day Rule, under which no single trading day may account for more than 20% of your total profit in the current reward segment, meaning the profit earned since your last reward. It can delay a withdrawal but never breaches your account, so you are free to let an indicator-driven system trade as the market dictates.

Should you wish your UZO account to mirror trades from your own personal or master account, that is welcome too, so long as every account involved is held in your own name. Copying signals you generate yourself is treated as your own trading. What is not permitted is mirroring trades across accounts owned by different people, or subscribing to a third-party signal or copy service. The strategy must be yours, run on your own accounts.

What UZO does not permit 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 off the table whether a bot or a human runs them.

Latency arbitrage and HFT arbitrage try to profit from tiny timing gaps 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. As a guide, an average holding time below 2 minutes is likely to be treated as tick scalping, and an account that exceeds 200 trades and 2,000 order operations in a single day is flagged for hyperactivity. Genuine active trading is entirely welcome; systematically firing orders to farm the simulation is not.

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.