ICT AI Signal MT5 EA on FTMO

AI FTMO EA - ICT Signal Bot

An MT5 bot that trades an ICT model while sizing and stopping itself against FTMO's exact limits — it throttles before the line, not after.

  • Entry
  • Stop loss
  • Take-profit 1 / 2 / 3
  • Live price
  • Breakeven move
The product

See the ICT engine on an FTMO challenge

One window on your MT5 terminal — the live trade, the scored signal book, market structure, sessions and the three engines. Switch a tab to see each. This is the real panel; on a challenge, every setup is sized against your FTMO drawdown line before it is allowed to fire.

ICT AI SIGNAL MT5 EA 00:17
TradeEURUSD
Buy · Active Spread 0.4p
Spot · M1
1.15318
TP31.15666+36.9p
TP21.15543+24.6p
TP11.15420+12.3p
Entry1.15297
SL1.15174−12.3p
Trade engine Connected Auto  off
Open P&L Lot 0.04
Held 0:00
#389113563
+2.1p
+0.82 USD
SLEntryTP1TP2TP3
Stagerunning · exit TP3
Score★★★★★
WatchlistNAS100 3 / 5Choose symbols
•••BullishEURUSD19 finishedAuto
•••BullishGBPUSD24 finishedAuto
•••MixedUS3021 finishedAuto
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Signal history64
SymbolBiasSignalQualityModelTFEntry zoneDistStateResultAge
XAUUSDSell★★★★CM54170.15 – 4172.64Invalid42m
EURUSDSell★★★★★CM11.15415 – 1.15421Ran50m
US30Sell★★★★★CM139018.5 – 39021.0Invalid55m
NAS100Buy★★★★★CM120044.2 – 20047.1Ran1h
GBPUSDSell★★★★CM51.34664 – 1.34682Ran1h
XAUUSDSell★★★★★CM14152.53 – 4153.86Missed1h
US30Buy★★★★★BM539002.5 – 39010.4Invalid2h
Scanning 3 symbols · 1 refused (too wide) · engine 10 µsDouble-click a row to open it · 55 more
Daily pivot zonesClassic 3 resist · 4 support Zones on
Prev day O 1.15100  H 1.15720  L 1.15040  C 1.15650 2026.08.05
R31.165801.16558 – 1.16602+111.8 pips
R21.161501.16128 – 1.16172+68.8 pips
R11.159001.15878 – 1.15922+43.8 pips
PP1.154701.15448 – 1.15492+0.8 pips
S11.152201.15198 – 1.15242−24.2 pips
S21.147901.14768 – 1.14812−67.2 pips
S31.145401.14518 – 1.14562−92.2 pips
Price now1.15462Drawn on chart
Trend alignmentEURUSD
Bullish
5 up   1 down   3 range
Score +0.59
H1 and H4 weighted heaviest
5of 9
M1
MN1
M1
Down
Displacement
M5
Up
Displacement
M15
Range
Range width
M30
Up
Displacement
H1
Up
Displacement
H4
Up
Displacement
D1
Range
Range width
W1
Range
Range width
MN1
Up
Displacement
Currency strength28 symbols
EUR
+74
AUD
+60
GBP
+55
CHF
−9
CAD
−16
USD
−19
JPY
−44
NZD
−100
StrongestEUR
NZDWeakest
Trading sessionsProp firm time · GMT+3 · DST 2/214:53
0003060912151821
Asia
01–09
Closed
Europe
09–19
Open
New York
15–00
Closed
24h volatility profileMean H1 range · 20 days
000408121620
This hour is usuallyMedium
Swing structure
BOS
↑ 1.15720
Internal structure
BOS
↑ 1.15690
Premium / discount1.15040 – 1.15720
DiscountEquilibriumPremium
FVGOn
1.15683 – 1.15700
24 live
Inverted FVGOff
1.15711 – 1.15732
18 live
BPROn
1.15231 – 1.15273
7 live
UnicornOn
1.15667 – 1.15670
11 live
InducementOff
1.15619 – 1.15620
1 live
SFPOff
1.15758 – 1.15759
6 live
Chart layers6 off
Signal models3 of 3 running
Turbo Breakout (A)
0 in the book
MasterAI (B)
1 in the book
Rayan (C)
2 in the book
Turbo Breakout (A)Running

Reactions at levels the market built earlier and came back to.

Strictness
VlooseLooseBalancedTightVtight
left for more signals, right for fewer
Quality filter
OffOn
off passes every reaction, however weak
Structure needed
10+
bars of clear air a level needs · lower finds more
Reaction room
3.0+
how far past a level still counts · higher accepts more
Level lifetime
500+
bars a level stays usable · higher keeps more in play
Settling time
20+
bars before a level may be used · lower reacts sooner
TradeEURUSD
Buy · Active Spread 0.4p
Spot · M1
1.15297
TP31.15666+36.9p
TP21.15543+24.6p
TP11.15420+12.3p
Entry1.15297
SL1.15174−12.3p
One decision a day

One decision a day keeps you inside the limits.

The whole plan is drawn and risk-sized before you act — entry, structure-based stop and three targets, already on your chart. Taking one clean setup a day is how you respect the daily-loss limit and the consistency rule instead of over-trading a challenge away.

  • Entry on the exact candle that triggered it — no chasing
  • Structure-based stop set so one trade can't breach the daily loss
  • TP1 / TP2 / TP3 sized so the reward walks you toward the profit target
  • Fires by push, email and a chart alert — no need to sit and watch
  • Works on MT4 & MT5 at any prop firm
Signal history64
SymbolBiasSignalQualityModelTFEntry zoneStateAge
XAUUSDSell★★★★CM54170.15 – 4172.64Invalid42m
EURUSDSell★★★★★CM11.15415 – 1.15421Ran50m
NAS100Buy★★★★★CM120044.2 – 20047.1Ran1h
GBPUSDSell★★★★CM51.34664 – 1.34682Ran1h
US30Buy★★★★★BM539002.5 – 39010.4Invalid2h
Scanning 3 symbols · engine 10 µsDouble-click a row to open it · 59 more
Signals tab

A scored book to trade selectively, not all at once

The book keeps every signal the engine has produced across your firm's allowed instruments, re-scored on each closed bar. Nothing is quietly deleted — so you wait for the setups worth a slot in your day rather than taking them all and tripping the consistency rule.

  • A 1–5 score to be picky with

    Model, timeframe and entry zone on every row, each rated so you take only the Q4+ setups — the selectivity that keeps an evaluation consistent.

  • Ran · Missed · Invalid, recorded

    Every outcome is written down and kept — the honest track record you'd want before you put a challenge fee behind an engine.

  • The day's count resets with the session

    A clean tally of what fired today, so you pace entries against the daily-loss limit and don't burn the whole budget by lunch.

Daily pivot zonesClassic Zones on
Prev dayO 1.15100  H 1.15720  L 1.15040  C 1.15650
R31.165801.16558 – 1.16602+111.8 pips
R21.161501.16128 – 1.16172+68.8 pips
R11.159001.15878 – 1.15922+43.8 pips
PP1.154701.15448 – 1.15492+0.8 pips
S11.152201.15198 – 1.15242−24.2 pips
S21.147901.14768 – 1.14812−67.2 pips
S31.145401.14518 – 1.14562−92.2 pips
Price now1.15462Drawn on chart
S&R tab

Levels to size your stop within the daily limit

Classic floor-trader pivots for the current chart, built from yesterday's open, high, low and close — and rendered as bands, because price reacts to areas, not to a single hairline. This is structure you can anchor a stop to and know, before you click, that the risk stays inside your daily-loss budget.

  • R3 → S3, each with its own band

    The full pivot ladder plus the central pivot, so you see which level price is really trading into before you commit a single trade's risk.

  • Live distance in pips

    How far price sits from every level right now, updating on the tick — so you place a stop at real structure and keep it under your max daily loss.

  • The inputs shown, not hidden

    Yesterday's O/H/L/C are on the card so you can check the maths, and one switch puts the whole set on the chart.

Currency strength28 symbols
EUR
+74
AUD
+60
GBP
+55
CHF
−9
CAD
−16
USD
−19
JPY
−44
NZD
−100
StrongestEUR
NZDWeakest
CSM tab

Spend your one trade on the cleanest allowed pair

Twenty-eight crosses reduced to eight currencies and ranked live, so you read the strength of the currency itself — not the noise of one pair's move — and put your single funded-account trade on the clearest side the market is offering.

  • Ranked strongest to weakest

    Re-sorted on every update from the full 28-cross matrix, not a single pair's candle.

  • Strongest against weakest

    Pair the top with the bottom and you have the cleanest trend pair on the board — here, EUR against NZD — the kind of setup worth one of your limited daily trades.

  • Prop-firm agnostic

    Reads the same at every prop firm and every symbol suffix, so the ranking is comparable wherever you're funded.

Session tab

Trade the live sessions without over-exposing your budget

Asia, Europe and New York on the prop firm's own clock — GMT offset and daylight saving handled for you — beside a 24-hour volatility profile built from the last 20 days, so you know whether this hour is normally quiet, medium or busy before you commit part of your daily-loss budget to it.

Trading sessionsGMT+3 · DST 2/214:53
0003060912151821
Asia
01–09
Closed
Europe
09–19
Open
New York
15–00
Closed
24h volatility profileMean H1 range · 20 days
000408121620
This hour is usuallyMedium
Chart layers6 off
SMC tab

Show only the confluence that earns an entry

Smart-money structure is drawn only when you turn it on. Nothing clutters the chart by default — each layer is its own switch, so you build exactly the read that justifies putting a funded account behind a trade, and skip the setups that don't clear the bar.

  • One switch per layer

    Market and internal structure, swing points, premium/discount, FVG, iFVG, BPR, Unicorn, Inducement, SFP, sessions and levels.

  • Clean by default

    Everything starts off, so the chart shows only the confluence you chose — no wall of boxes clouding a decision that puts your challenge fee at stake.

  • Layers and zones stay in sync

    Flip a zone's layer and its live count follows, because on the panel the switch and the drawing are one setting.

Signal models3 of 3 running
Turbo Breakout (A)
0 in the book
MasterAI (B)
1 in the book
Rayan (C)
2 in the book
Turbo Breakout (A)Running
MasterAI (B)Running
Rayan (C)Running
Strategy tab

Narrow to the engine that keeps you consistent

Every signal comes from one of three models, each reading the market a different way. Run them together for coverage, or single out the one whose selectivity keeps you inside the consistency rule and stops you over-trading — and each keeps its own count of what's live in the book.

  • Turbo Breakout (A)

    Reactions at levels the market built earlier and returned to — fast, structure-led entries.

  • MasterAI (B)

    The AI-weighted model, blending the confluence signals into a single scored read.

  • Rayan (C)

    The confirmation-heavy engine for traders who want fewer, higher-conviction setups to protect a funded account.

Turbo Breakout (A)Running

Reactions at levels the market built earlier and came back to.

Strictness
VlooseLooseBalancedTightVtight
left for more signals, right for fewer
Quality filter
OffOn
off passes every reaction, however weak
Structure needed
10+
bars of clear air a level needs · lower finds more
Reaction room
3.0+
how far past a level still counts · higher accepts more
Level lifetime
500+
bars a level stays usable · higher keeps more in play
Settling time
20+
bars before a level may be used · lower reacts sooner
Strategy tab · the dials

Tune the frequency down to a rule-safe cadence

Each engine exposes its settings in plain language, not cryptic inputs. Loosen for more signals, tighten for fewer — every row tells you which way it trades frequency against selectivity, so you can settle the engine on the low, one-a-day cadence that keeps a challenge inside its daily-loss limit and consistency rule.

  • Strictness in one row

    Slide from Vloose to Vtight to move the whole engine between more setups and fewer, cleaner, evaluation-safe ones.

  • Filters you can read

    Quality filter, structure needed, reaction room, level lifetime and settling time — each with a plain hint.

  • New settings apply from here on

    Change a dial and it affects future bars; what's already in the book keeps the settings it was found under.

The problem

Why traders fail prop firm challenges

The evaluation isn't really testing your entries. It's testing whether you can stay inside the rails for weeks — and that's where humans crack.

  • One overshoot ends the account.

    Push past the daily drawdown by a single trade and it's gone — weeks of good reads wiped by one bad afternoon.

  • News rules are easy to forget.

    A valid ICT setup right into a high-impact release can be a breach on many firms, even if the trade would have won.

  • Consistency rules quietly disqualify you.

    One outsized winning day can fail a challenge you were otherwise passing — a rule most traders only learn about after it costs them.

Market scanner

Scan the market inside your prop rules

The EA scans every pair for you — and on a challenge, each setup is checked against your drawdown line before it is allowed to fire.

  • One panel, every pair

    The whole market scans in a single view — you don't have to choose which chart to babysit.

  • Sized to the rules first

    Before any pair can fire, the trade is sized so a full stop stays inside your daily drawdown line.

  • News windows honoured

    Setups landing inside a restricted release simply don't fire — the breach never happens.

Market scanner · Rule-aware scanning
  • EUR/USD M5 Armed
  • GBP/USD M5 Sweep
  • USD/JPY M5 Scanning
  • XAU/USD M5 News hold
  • AUD/USD M5 Scanning
  • USD/CAD M5 Coiling
  • EUR/JPY M5 Scanning
  • GBP/JPY M5 Armed

Scanning the market — every setup sized to the drawdown line first

Account fit

FTMO at a glance

The account facts that decide whether the EA drops straight in.

MetaTrader 5
Yes — native
The EA drops straight onto an MT5 challenge account.
Max daily loss
5%
The EA sizes and stops well inside FTMO's daily line.
Max overall loss
10%
It throttles before the 10% overall breach.
Profit target
10% · 5%
Phase 1 then phase 2 — traded on a real ICT edge.
EA / automation
Allowed
Expert Advisors are permitted on FTMO's MT5.
Profit split
80% → 90%
Up to 90% of the profit is yours once funded.
Min trading days
4
Even, repeatable sizing clears it without one big day.
Account sizes
$10k–$200k
One EA file runs on every account size.
The fit

Why FTMO is a strong fit for the ICT EA

A challenge is passed by staying inside the rules for weeks, not by one good entry. Here is how the EA holds FTMO's exact lines for you.

Drawdown, tuned to FTMO's 5% daily / 10% overall

FTMO's limits become the EA's hard inputs — it sizes every ICT trade so a full stop stays inside the 5% daily line and throttles itself well before the 10% overall breach. That guardrail is exactly where most traders fail an evaluation they had the skill to pass.

News-window aware

Flag FTMO's restricted news windows and the EA simply doesn't fire inside them — no accidental breach on an otherwise valid setup.

Consistency-safe sizing

Even, repeatable position sizing keeps any single day from running away — so you clear the evaluation on a real edge, not on one lucky session.

Same discipline when funded

Pass, and the identical guards carry straight into your funded FTMO account — where protecting an 80–90% payout matters most.

The reason most challenges fail

The EA stops before the line — not after

Blowing the drawdown is the No.1 way traders fail an evaluation they had the skill to pass. The EA sizes and throttles against FTMO's limits, so it backs off well before the breach.

Daily loss limit 5%
Overall loss limit 10%
  • EA operating band
  • Throttle zone
  • Hard limit
Comparison

ICT EA vs. a signal indicator

A signal indicator only points at a setup — you still have to place, size and manage the trade yourself. Here is what the EA does instead.

A typical signal indicator
ICT AI Signal EA
An arrow you must catch live
The signal
The trade taken for you in under 10ms
Often redraws after the candle closes
Repaint
Fixed ICT rules — no hindsight redraw
Direction only — you size and place it
The plan
Entry, stop, target and risk on every order
You still fight emotion at the click
Discipline
Hard stop and risk cap enforced in code
One chart in front of you at a time
Coverage
The whole market watched from one panel
A black-box arrow you can't audit
The logic
Legible ICT / Smart Money you can read
Paid — monthly or per license
Cost
Free lifetime license
Challenge, day by day

How the EA runs a prop challenge

A challenge is won by staying inside the rules for weeks, not by one good entry. Here is how that plays out.

  1. Day 1 · 08:00
    Inside the rails

    It knows your limits before it trades.

    Your firm's daily and overall drawdown, news windows and consistency targets are loaded — every trade is weighed against them first.

  2. Day 1 · 08:20
    London setup

    A valid ICT entry, correctly sized.

    The setup fires, sized so even a full stop stays comfortably inside the daily drawdown line.

  3. Day 2 · 14:00
    News window

    It stands down for the release.

    A valid setup lands right into a high-impact release — the EA simply doesn't fire, so a breach never happens.

  4. Day 4
    Consistency held

    No single day runs away.

    Even, repeatable sizing keeps any one day from tripping the consistency rule that quietly fails so many traders.

  5. Payout
    Funded, protected

    Same discipline, real money.

    The evaluation passes and the identical guards carry into the funded account, where protecting the payout matters most.

Who it's for

Who this prop firm EA is for

It's built for the trader a challenge actually trips up, and honest about who it isn't for.

This is for you if

  • You've blown challenges on one bad afternoon, not on bad strategy.
  • You keep forgetting a firm's news or consistency rule in the heat of a trade.
  • You want the drawdown line defended by software, not willpower.
  • You want the same discipline to carry from evaluation into funded.

This isn't for you if

  • You want a guaranteed pass — no tool can promise one, and anyone who does is lying.
  • You prefer to place every challenge trade by hand.
  • You're still learning the basics and aren't ready to automate an evaluation.
Get running

Live on FTMO in 4 steps

No bridge and no plugin — if you can drag a file onto a chart, you can run it on your FTMO account.

~2 min
  1. 1

    Start your FTMO challenge

    Buy your FTMO challenge and log into its MetaTrader 5 account.

  2. 2

    Claim your free license

    Message our 24/7 support to activate your free lifetime license — no card, no subscription.

  3. 3

    Enter FTMO's rules

    Load the ICT AI Signal EA and enter FTMO's 5% daily / 10% overall limits and restricted news windows.

  4. 4

    Set risk & go live

    Set your risk per trade, enable AutoTrading, and let it trade ICT inside the rails.

Pricing

What the ICT prop firm EA costs

A rule-aware EA that guards your drawdown usually costs hundreds up front. Ours is free for life — your firm's fee is the only bill.

Sold on other sites

A tool like this, elsewhere

$300–500

one-time — or billed to you every month

And here's the catch

  • No drawdown or news guard
  • Hundreds paid upfront
  • Features behind paid upsells
  • Setup billed by the hour

That's the going rate for a rule-aware EA. We don't charge it.

Our price At SignalBots

ICT AI Signal EA · Prop

$0 free forever, yours to keep

You keep up to $500

Everything you'd normally pay for

  • The full ICT AI Signal EA $299 Free
  • Drawdown, news & consistency guard $99 Free
  • Firm-rule presets $49 Free
  • Guided setup & 24/7 support $39 Free

No card, no subscription — our team activates it in minutes.

Availability

Where FTMO accepts accounts

The free EA license itself has no country limit — the list below is FTMO's own onboarding policy. Always confirm on FTMO before you sign up.

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • American Samoa
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Antarctica
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Bouvet Island
  • Brazil
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cabo Verde
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Curaçao
  • Cyprus
  • Czechia
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • DR Congo
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • Ethiopia
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • French Guiana
  • French Polynesia
  • French Southern Territories
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guam
  • Guatemala
  • Guernsey
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Holy See (Vatican City State)
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macao
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Martinique
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mayotte
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Niue
  • Norfolk Island
  • North Korea
  • North Macedonia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Palestine, State of
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Pitcairn
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Réunion
  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Martin (French part)
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • South Korea
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Tuvalu
  • Türkiye
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Virgin Islands, U.S.
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Western Sahara
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
  • Åland Islands
Reviews

Reviews from traders

Traders on running the ICT AI Signal EA day to day.

  • Stefan R. FTMO challenge trader · via Trustpilot
    FTMO's Phase 1 asks for 10% and Phase 2 for 5%, and the EA didn't oversize to rush either — it took the ICT setups the simulated challenge gave it and let the target come.
  • Amir H. FTMO challenge trader · via Discord
    It sat out FTMO's restricted news windows on its own and never touched the hyperactive-bot behaviour they forbid — it holds structure trades over multiple candles, so it stayed clean by design.
  • Rosa B. FTMO funded trader · via Telegram
    On the funded account FTMO pays up to a 90% split, and because the EA spreads risk across setups instead of one huge day, the consistency review never flagged me.
Good to know

Frequently asked questions

Does FTMO allow EAs?

Yes — FTMO permits Expert Advisors on MetaTrader 5. Always confirm the current terms on FTMO's own site, since firm rules can change.

How does the EA connect to FTMO?

It runs natively inside FTMO's MetaTrader 5 — no bridge and nothing extra to install. Load the one file on your challenge account and it trades there directly.

Which FTMO platform do I need?

MetaTrader 5. The EA is an MT5 Expert Advisor, so pick an MT5 FTMO account.

What are FTMO's drawdown limits?

5% max daily loss and 10% max overall. You enter both into the EA and it sizes and stops against them, throttling before the line.

How does it handle the 5% daily loss?

You enter FTMO's daily and overall limits and the EA sizes and stops against them, throttling before the 5% line rather than after — the single most common fail-reason.

Does it respect FTMO's news rules?

Yes — flag the restricted news windows and the EA simply won't fire inside them, so a valid setup never turns into a breach.

Does FTMO have a consistency rule?

FTMO's is standard with no fixed cap, but the EA still uses even, repeatable sizing so one big day can't put a passing challenge at risk.

What's FTMO's profit target?

10% in phase 1 and 5% in phase 2. The EA trades an ICT edge toward it while holding the drawdown line the whole way.

Does it work in the funded stage too?

Yes. The same rule-aware discipline carries into your funded FTMO account, where protecting the payout matters most.

Can it guarantee I pass FTMO?

No, and don't trust anyone who promises that. Trading carries risk and no result is guaranteed. The EA enforces the discipline — the 5% daily line, news windows — that most traders breach, on a real ICT edge. Read our risk warning.

Is my capital at risk?

Yes. Trading carries substantial risk and no result is guaranteed. The EA holds the line on drawdown, news and consistency, but a challenge can still fail — read our risk warning.

What does it cost?

The EA license is free for life. FTMO's own challenge fee is separate and paid to FTMO (refundable on your first payout).

Compliance & regulation

The rules, risks & regulators behind automated trading

The platform’s own conditions, the market’s risks, and the regulators that oversee it — organised in one place so you can check each before you automate a single trade.

FTMO's own rules

FTMO permits EAs — within limits it publishes itself. Read them on FTMO's own pages before you run the ICT AI Signal EA on a challenge.

  • FTMO is a prop firm, not a broker: all accounts are demo accounts with fictitious funds and trading is in a simulated environment — payouts (up to 90%) come from FTMO as a service, not from real market execution.
  • Expert Advisors and algorithmic trading are explicitly allowed with no pre-approval — provided the strategy is legitimate, manages risk and trades according to real market conditions.
  • Forbidden practices that can void an account include 'hyperactive' bots (soft caps near 200 simultaneous orders / 2,000 positions a day), exploiting price-feed errors, gap trading around news or the close, and hedging across accounts to game the Best-Day rule.
  • FTMO restricts a long list of countries and routes US and Australian clients through a separate pathway — confirm your eligibility on FTMO's own site before buying a challenge.

Official sources

Prop-firm market risks

What to weigh before you run any EA on a funded-challenge account.

  • Challenge providers are largely unregulated: they are not licensed brokers, don't register with the CFTC or NFA, and you trade simulated capital under a fee-for-service contract — not a protected brokerage account.
  • Because they aren't brokers, funds aren't segregated client money and there is no FSCS / SIPC-style deposit protection if a firm delays payouts or ceases operating.
  • The CFTC's 2023 case against “My Forex Funds” (later dismissed on procedural grounds in 2025) alleged the firm secretly traded against its own funded clients — an illustration of the counterparty conflict built into the challenge-fee model.
  • Platform access is a live risk: from February 2024 MetaQuotes revoked MT4 / MT5 licences from brokers grey-labelling to prop firms over US-regulatory exposure, stranding some firms' accounts through no fault of the trader.

Official sources

Global regulators

The international bodies that oversee automated and retail trading. These references hold wherever you run the EA — confirm the rules for your own jurisdiction before you enable AutoTrading.

  • Under the EU's MiFID II, firms running algorithmic strategies must keep pre-trade risk controls, governance and testing in place — ESMA extended that scrutiny to AI-driven trading systems in 2026.
  • The FCA (UK) and ASIC (Australia) cap retail CFD leverage from 30:1 down to 2:1 and require negative-balance protection — a hard limit on the exposure any EA can take on a retail account.
  • Regulators consistently report that most retail CFD accounts lose money; automating the entries does not change that base rate.
  • CySEC, the FCA, ASIC and the CFTC all warn that an 'AI trading bot' promising guaranteed or risk-free returns is itself a fraud red flag — legitimate automation never guarantees a result.

Regulators

United States

US persons face a distinct set of rules for automated forex, futures and securities trading — and a specific regulator advisory aimed at trading bots.

  • The CFTC's advisory “AI Won't Turn Trading Bots into Money Machines” names automated-bot and AI-signal scams directly — one fake-AI forex-bot case ended in a $3.4 billion judgment.
  • Retail off-exchange forex dealers must register with the CFTC and be NFA Forex Dealer Members; soliciting retail forex orders — including for an automated system — requires NFA registration.
  • The SEC, NASAA and FINRA jointly warn that a phrase like “our proprietary AI system can't lose” signals an unregistered scheme, not legitimate automation.
  • FINRA Rule 3110 makes member firms supervise, test and register the people behind an algorithmic strategy — the institutional bar for 'supervised' automated trading.

Regulators

Trading carries risk of loss. Read our full risk warning before you use any signal, backtest or automated strategy.

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