Sorry I just now stumbled upon this response and I wanted to clear up any confusion.
Here is what I said, “There is nothing in the terms and conditions that says anything about more than one trader using the same third party EA’s.”
In otherwords, there is nothing in the terms and conditions that says only one trader can use the same strategy, many traders can use the same strategy.
Where the problem come into play is when the total of all traders accounts reach 3 million dollars. Once this limit is reached then all traders using the same strategy will be asked to change their strategy. It is only if the traders refuse to change their strategy will their accounts be locked out. According to Petko, all you need to do to change the strategy is to change the magic number. So until the 3 million dollar limit is reached traders can use the same strategy. You are not going to lose your account. The worse thing you may have to do is to change the magic number. A good reason to use MT4 because MT5 does not use magic numbers. I don’t know if adding a comment would change the strategy just as a magic number does.
Hope this clears up the confusion.
Alan,