Automated Trading Championship 2008

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I have a genuine question.

Of the 1000 participants,how many make a profit?

Is it a handful that make a fortune,most are small up/small down and the rest are disaster zones?Kind of like an office with non-automated traders in it.

I'd really appreciate it if you could post some facts from last year's tournament - it would be interesting to see how well automated traders actually do as a group rather than just hearing about a few who hit a home run.

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Thanks for the question. But why didnt you visit the ATC site? As we always said: ATC is a Research. If you got some questions i`d recommend you to visit ATC site News section. There are many materials and the answer to your question is published too: http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/335

If answer briefly, 17% were "in plus" after three months of trading. All the rest "in minus" or with zero-profit. Just read the article.

Have a luck in trading!
 
Talking about absolute profits is misleading, it should be in the context of risk eg. drawdown or some other risk metric. Plenty of FX traders made 10000% annualized returns but then lost it all and way more with a few bad trades (Collective2 has dozens of traders like this). It's really not hard to over-leverage and show impressive results for a brief period, consistency is the issue.
 
On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2008, an article Automated Trading Championship 2008 Has Started! has been published. The 1st of October 2008 is the starting date of the Automated Trading Championship 2008. All preparatory stages are behind us, registration and check of Expert Advisors are over. 705 Participants are on the start line. Now Expert Advisors will have to prove that they are able to trade and gain profit without human interference.

The article was published on the website of Automated Trading Championship 2008 in the News section.

Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2008 are FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC), Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), FXDD and the TRADERS’ magazine. The organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.
 
read somewhere participants are not allowed to give dll files but must submit ex files which could be easily decompiled...
organisers sure know how to gather good programs to counterstudy, they are brokers afterall.

There are EAs that are just trade signal receiver from the provider through the internet...which have no trading system at all.... wonder are these EAs allowed and are already in the tournament?
 
So, it is possible that they will use participant's algorithm to counter them in the future right?,
I mean, if your algorithm is so successful, u do not need to participate in the first place because u could do much, much better that the prize granted.
That means I do not believe that the really excellent algo will show up in this tournament.
 
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That means I do not believe that the really excellent algo will show up in this tournament.
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What about last-year winner? He is participating in this year too.
 
Quote from aonelite:
I mean, if your algorithm is so successful, u do not need to participate in the first place because u could do much, much better that the prize granted.
That means I do not believe that the really excellent algo will show up in this tournament.
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Hard to say whether there would be excellent EAs or not but the contestants will try to impress by overleveraging and hope to be selected to manage funds later which is much better than the prize.
 
On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2008, an article Reporting the First Days of the Championship (1-3 October) has been published. Only three days have passed since the Championship started. However the start of the competition was dramatic. Absolutely different Expert Advisors take the lead, but none of them managed to hold out on the leading position.

The article was published on the website of Automated Trading Championship 2008 in the News section.

Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2008 are FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC), Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), FXDD and the TRADERS’ magazine. The organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.
 
On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2008, an article Jury Session: First Disqualifications has been published. Several days have passed since the Automated Trading Championship 2008 started. Not all Expert Advisors worked without errors. We called a meeting of Jury members to decide on the disqualification of several Participants. 11 Expert Advisors have fallen out of the race.

The article was published on the website of Automated Trading Championship 2008 in the News section.

Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2008 are FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC), Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), FXDD and the TRADERS’ magazine. The organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.
 
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