Automated Trading Championship 2011 Has Started!

why are they not trading for themselves.
are they trying to sell systems , courses , like so much here in et?
what is the catch?
 
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why are they not trading for themselves.
are they trying to sell systems , courses , like so much here in et?
what is the catch?
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I can't answer this question. I think everybody wants to earn some extra money.
 
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Sergey Nikitin VNIK)

In the second week of the competition, the Expert Advisor of Sergey Nikitin (VNIK) trading on two currency pairs EURUSD and EURJPY got featured on the very top drawing away from the rest. Multicurrency Expert Advisors always attract attention in the Championship, especially those that show good results. We talked with Sergey about the role of luck in a trader's life and his way of trading.

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You are a regular participant of the Championship except for one year. Why did you miss ATC 2007? You participated in 2008, but your EA didn't trade. Was there an error in your program?

There was an interesting situation in 2007. My EA was not allowed to participate in the Championship. As far as I understand, the reason was that the final compilation was done on my work PC, while I sent it to the competition from home. In 2008 I didn't understand properly some of the new rules of the Championship, and eventually my system in the EA simply didn't receive all the necessary input data for trading and, accordingly, didn't open a single position. Well, it happens.
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The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Sergey Nikitin (VNIK).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
 
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Andrei Moraru (enivid)

Ukrainian programmer Andrei Moraru (enivid) is an active participant of the <span>Automated Trading Championship beginning from 2007. Andrei had already come in our view at that time and now we have decided to find out if there occured any changes in his attitude towards trading and selection of trading strategies for the past four years, and also to know about his new Expert Advisor.

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Why have you decided to share your Expert Advisor? Are you waiting for some comments and recommendations from your colleagues? Or may be you have some other reasons?

The strategy is quite good and worth sharing, I think. I usually share my MQL4/5 works that I consider worthy. It helps to improve them considerably. And I think that I must give something back, in case I use somebody else's work.

Do you think your Expert Advisor can be used in a real account?

That is my first Championship Expert Advisor that was tested on a demo account for a long time before the competition. It showed quite good results for eight months with a "mild" money management. I'm going to launch it on a real account beginning from the next year after some improvements concerning money management are implemented. But I don't recommend anybody to do the same, as the risk of losses exists.
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The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Andrei Moraru (enivid).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
 
Quote from kenten:

why are they not trading for themselves.
are they trying to sell systems , courses , like so much here in et?
what is the catch?
More...

Like in any trading competition, you probably to take insane risks to have a chance to win and you probably have to overfit. If you were to run 1000 strategies, you are bound to find a few ones which will show high returns over a sample period.

Just to make sure the strategies have a real you would need to forward test these strategies over a longer period.

It is great for the developpers since you get extra money (whether you are successful), and great for the sponsors because it attracts people who will be lured by how easy this looks ...
 
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Third Week Report

The third week of the Championship became notable for the flat movement of the EURUSD pair which is the most popular among the participating Expert Advisors. A unique situation has come into being eventually - the difference between equity sizes of the first and the last participant in TOP-10 comprises only $4000! It is the first time in history of the Automated Trading Championship that we have such a small range of results among the first ten participants.

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The third week of the Championship is over. It turned out to be quite ruthless towards those who had not fixed their profits in time. Only one participant was standing aside from all these dramatic events and waiting for better time - that is the Expert Advisor of tornhill from Germany. The last time it showed activity on October 17, i.e. a week ago. His Expert Advisor is called Every Breath but probably it is now the time to breathe, not to trade. And his position seems to be wise enough so far.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Third Week Report.

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
 
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Atsushi Yamanaka (alohafx)

What is common between skydiving, Futures, Hawaii, translations and spies? We didn't know it until we've managed to communicate with disqualified participant Atsushi Yamanaka (alohafx). His has a creed "Life is Good!", and one can hardly doubt that. It was interesting to know that distances between the continents are not an obstacle for communication among our Championship's participants.

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You have created your EA in MQL5 Wizard. What do you think about it?
Fantastic toy! Perfect for the people like me who wants to make automatic trading robot but not very good at writing the code. The coding skill and strategy idea is totally different story. I believe there are lots of people who knows trading but not coding.

I want anyone to use my EA (if it works) as a MQL5 Wizard template to prepare for the next Championship.
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The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Atsushi Yamanaka (alohafx).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
 
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Olexander Topchylo (Better)

Interview with Olexander Topchylo (Better) is the second publication within the "ATC Champions League" project. Having won the Automated Trading Championship 2007, this professional trader caught the attention of investors. Olexander says that his first place in the ATC 2007 is one of the major events of his trading experience. However, later on this popularity helped him discover the biggest disappointment - it is so easy to lose investors after the first drawdown on an investor account.

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Your winning Expert Advisor was based on a neural network. You said that the neural network was developed in C++, and then translated into MQL4. Now we are launching an open source project for creating a neuronet engine in MQL5, which is designed to help traders to create a network in a few clicks and paste it into the Expert Advisor code. Would you like to participate in this project?

Yes, I've read this forum topic. It's a very interesting project! Although now everyone can find neural networks in existing freeware-libraries, but there is one peculiarity. Neural networks require huge computational resources, and by coding such a network in pure MQL5 you can use the cloud computing service, which was recently launched on the MetaTrader 5 platform.

I won't be able to participate in the project, since I have no time. Also, I'll hardly use the results of this project, since I create neural networks for specific tasks. But for beginners this will be a very useful resource.
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The full text is available on the Championship website - ATC Champions League: Interview with Olexander Topchylo (Better).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
 
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