Hi Donovan and welcome,

There is no rule in a contest. You can trade the way you want.

I don't know if the contest is with real money but if it is, i think it's a mistake. If you're new on Forex, i advise you to trade on a demo account to be familiar with the forex, the way it works. It will also give you the opportunity to determine a strategy. You have to be aware that an EA is a not a magic thing. It could have good performance during a certain period but on the long term, most of all will lead you to lose your funds. Otherwise, banks will buy this EA and will not get any traders....

It's just a fact. I'm glad if you found a very performing EA but i just want to warn you about the risk of this kind of thing. Don't be too confident... that's the mistake of lot of new traders.

There is a lot of strategy but one tip i can give you is to find a simple one. Most of traders who succeed on the Forex or stocks markets have a simple strategy.

I don't know how you want to work. Some questions you have to answer by yourself by using a demo account :
- Do you want to use fundamental or technical analysis?
- Do you want to trade the trend or are you a scalper?
- On which timeframe do you want to trade? Day trading (15min-1h), medium term (2h-4h) or long term (daily-weekly candlesticks))

After that, you can try different strategy and see how its works.

Bye

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