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title: "Expert advisor - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "A program that places trades automatically according to coded rules. It executes a strategy without a trader present, which removes hesitation and…"
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Tooling and execution

# Expert advisor

A program that places trades automatically according to coded rules. It executes a strategy without a trader present, which removes hesitation and removes judgement at the same time.

Also called: EA · Trading robot · Automated strategy

GFN’s figure

Automated trading may be allowed on a GFN account provided the strategy follows all GFN rules and represents legitimate trading behaviour. An EA you wrote yourself may be used if it stays compliant; third-party systems built or marketed to exploit or automatically pass prop-firm challenges may be prohibited.

- **Your own EA**: May be used if compliant
- **Challenge-passing services**: Prohibited
- **Mass-identical activity**: Can be reviewed across accounts
- **Minimum hold time**: 2 minutes applies to automated trades too

In detail

## Expert advisor, explained

Firms generally permit automation that represents genuine trading and restrict automation aimed at the evaluation itself. The distinction is what the code relies on: market analysis, or a weakness in the environment.

A tool sold specifically to pass prop challenges is the clearest case on the wrong side of that line, and identical activity appearing across many accounts is straightforward for a firm to detect.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/expert-advisors) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More tooling and execution](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/tooling)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Algorithmic trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/algorithmic-trading) - Trading decisions and execution driven by code rather than by a person. It covers everything from a single automated entry rule to a fully systematic strategy running unattended.
- [Copy trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/copy-trading) - Replicating trades from one account to another automatically. Copying between your own accounts is a scaling tool; copying another person's trades, or letting them trade yours, is a different activity entirely.
- [API trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/api-trading) - Placing and managing orders programmatically through an interface rather than by hand. It is how custom systems, risk monitors, journals and analytics tools connect to an account, and it carries the same rules as manual trading.
- [VPS](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/vps) - A rented always-on server used to run trading software continuously. It keeps an automated strategy running through a local power cut, a lost connection or a closed laptop.
- [Prohibited trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/prohibited-trading) - Activity a firm bans because it targets the trading environment rather than the market. It covers exploiting errors and pricing delays, coordinated trading between accounts, and third-party account management.

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/expert-advisor
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