Ares Gold EA

No. Ares is built for two-decimal XAUUSD pricing (e.g. 2000.50). Brokers that quote Gold with three or more decimals are not compatible. Fusion Markets and Ultima Markets both quote XAUUSD with the precision Ares needs on their raw-spread account types. If you are unsure, check a live XAUUSD quote in MT5 — count the decimals.

Two reasons. First, the strategy is a breakout system on the M1 chart, so it has to react within a fraction of a second when a level triggers — every millisecond of latency between your terminal and the broker eats into the entry quality. Second, Ares trades during specific session windows; if your home PC sleeps or your internet drops at the wrong moment, you miss the day. A VPS in a low-latency datacentre solves both.

Fusion Markets — its Zero account has very tight Gold spreads and the onboarding is simple. Ultima Markets works too, and its Raw Cent account is the cheapest way to watch Ares trade live before scaling up. Ares is not built for prop-firm accounts, so the E8 Markets route does not apply to it. The broker comparison on the main page covers the full picture.

No. All four engines close their positions at the end of the trading day, so Ares does not carry trades overnight and you pay no swap on them. If the broker rejects that close — a brief outage, or the market being shut at that exact moment — Ares keeps retrying until it goes through rather than giving up until the next day, and it remembers the decision across an MT5 restart. A close it cannot complete is reported in the Experts tab, then repeated as a reminder every 15 minutes, so it never fails silently.

Yes, since v13.0. Switch on "Use Individual Risk per Warrior" in the Risk Management group and each of the four Warriors is then sized from its own "Individual Risk" field, which sits directly under its toggle in the Inputs panel; the shared Risk Value is ignored while the switch is on. The fields use the same unit as the Risk Value — lots, percent, currency or steps, whichever the Lot Size Mode sets. This is how you weight the engines against each other, for example running Phobos at half the risk of the others, without disabling any of them. The switch is off by default, so an existing setup keeps behaving exactly as before.

Ares is not designed for prop firms. The label on the EA showcase says "Not designed for it" for a reason — there is no built-in news filter, no master close-at-target switch, and the daily drawdown profile is not tuned for prop-firm rules. If you want a prop-friendly EA, ORB Revolution is the right tool. Ares belongs on a personal live account.

Technically Ares will run on the minimum deposit a broker allows, but realistically I recommend starting with at least $1,000. With less than that, the broker's minimum lot size and your risk setting no longer align — you either over-risk a single trade or the EA cannot place orders at all. $2,000 to $3,000 is the comfortable range; more if you want a wider margin for drawdown.

It is the same EA, same version, same updates — the difference is how the license is bound. The free license you get through TLFX is valid for one specific account only: the live account you open with one of my partner brokers. If you want to run Ares outside of that — on a different broker, or on a second account of your own — you need to buy it on MQL5.