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Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Tim Fass (Tim)

A student from Germany Tim Fass (Tim) is participating in the Automated Trading Championship for the first time. Nevertheless, his Expert Advisor The_Wild_13 already got featured at the very top of the Championship rating and seems to be holding his position in the top ten. Tim told us about his Expert Advisor, his faith in the success of simple strategies and his wildest dreams.

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Your strategy attracted attention for its slow but stable increase in the balance. Was it intentionally optimized so? Does its prototype that you use in real trading show the same smooth increase?

Yes it generally shows the same smooth increase. I wanted a program that is not acting too chaotic, because it is much easier to tell if it is effective or needs a new optimization. That is why I prefer a program with small but reliable profit. It is achieved by the large stop loss while placing the order.

The resulting problems are massive but rare loss trades; the key is to keep them as rare as possible. Also in optimization I preferred more stable sets of variables with the profit factor of at least 3.

With my three loss trades in one week, I was quite unlucky too, hopefully it will get better soon.
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The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Tim Fass (Tim).

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: Fourth Week Report

The last week of October has not promised any suprises. Our TOP-10 was changing insignificantly. The leadership was passing periodically from one participant to another and it was impossible to predict a Friday leader. But something unbelievable has happened on Thursday - the Expert Advisor of Xupypr has suddenly turned on its acceleration to maximum and soared heavenward like a rocket with 15 EURUSD lots on board! For the first time in the Automated Trading Championship history such a huge profit has been fixed.

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To better understand the scale of this event we must recall that the Expert Advisor of the previous Championship winner Boris Odintsov (bobsley) finished with $77 102 on its account. Nevertheless, 2 months of the competition are still ahead of us. There is enough time to leave all the pursuers trailing far behind. However, we know the cases when all the advantage gained in the beginning was eventually lost. Of course, we could not help asking the leader of the fourth week several questions.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Fourth 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 Igor Korepin (Xupypr)

Appearance of the Expert Advisor cs2011 by Igor Korepin (Xupypr) at the very top of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 was really impressive - its balance was almost twice that of the EA featured on the second place. However, despite such a sound breakaway, the Expert Advisor could not stay long on the first line. Igor frankly said that he relied much on a lucky start of his trading robot in the competition. We'll see if luck helps this simple EA to take the lead in the ATC 2011 race again.

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Two days ago your EA seemed to be resting at an unattainable height. And suddenly there was one more rise - the Expert Advisor by ias. The MetaTrader 5 Tester now supports multicurrency strategies. Have you ever tried to create programs trading multiple currencies?

Yes, once I tried to create a multicurrency robot, but it was very simple. For a full-fledged multicurrency EA you need a well-thought strategy. In my understanding, it must simultaneously take into account the movements of several instruments. Currency indexes are quite suitable for such analysis. I don't know how the ias' Expert Advisor is constructed and what strategy it uses. But I think that the author succeeded in it. His EA catches strong movements and is excellent in protecting the profits. It has already earned over $100,000. My congratulations to ias!
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The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Igor Korepin (Xupypr).

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: Statistical Report #1

The first month of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 is over. 395 Expert Advisors in total were allowed to participate in the competition this year. That is 81 more that the last year Championship. But not all of them have been considered in our report, as 7 participants were disqualified during the first two weeks. Therefore, 388 Expert Advisors are still in action as of October 31. The current Championship is rich in surprises and it is time to examine this year's first statistical values.

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Like during the last year's Championship, EURUSD suffered a downfall at the beginning but eventually moved upwards steadily by the end of the first week. But the Expert Advisors that started their trading activity in 2010 a bit later were mostly profitable ones, while this year most of such Expert Advisors are losing ones. Can this fact mean that the Exeprt Advisors expected growth of euro the last year, while now they expect its downfall? We can't say that for sure but, nevertheless, we decided to reveal this curious fact in our report.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Statistical Report #1.

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: Fifth Week Report

We have not expected any new sensations after the incredible takeoff of the Expert Advisor of Igor Korepin (Xupypr). It seemed that the gap between Xupypr and his closest pursuer (the Expert Advisor of anuta) comprising $35 000 is big enough to provide the former with a safety net at least for a week or even a month. But this assumption has turned out to be completely wrong and the first week of November has shown us that you can never be too sure both about the Championship and Forex trading.

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The main event of the fifth week is even more incredible takeoff of the multi-currency Expert Advisor of ias from Russia. Not only has it been able to jump past Xupypr's level but it has also managed to accelerate up to the second "cosmic" speed and reached $100 000. As it was noted by the Championship audience, this "twelve-stage rocket" is able to cope with any height and no one can say what its limits are.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Fifth 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.
 
Quote from virtualmoney:

Do these traders take into account or organiser even understand "Risk of Ruin",
or are allowed to trade any size?
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From Rules of Championship

IV. Trading terms
<ol><li>For the purpose of the Championship, a special group of accounts
called demochampionship, on the MetaQuotes-Demo server
(access.metatrader5.com:443), is used. Accounts in this group are
created by the Organizer only. Account numbers from 750 000 to 900 000
are reserved for the Championship.</li><li>The initial "virtual deposit" consists of 10 000 USA dollars with a
leverage of 1:100. It is prohibited to add funds the account.</li><li>There are 12 currency pairs with accessible minute histories from the year of 2005, selected for the Championship.</li><li>The minimum trading amount is 0.01 lots, and the maximum is 5 lots, with an increase by 0.01 lot on every order.</li><li>The maximum amount of pending orders for all symbols at any point in time is 12. </li><li>The maximum total size of a position and pending orders, regardless of
the direction, is 15 lots for each symbol. Thus, there can be open
positions with the maximum total size of 180 lots on one account: one
15-lot position for each of the 12 available symbols (12*15=180). Stop-losses and take-profits are not taken into account.</li><li>The Stop Out level (for forced closure of positions) is 50%.</li><li>The trading conditions will be created as realistically as possible:
</li></ol>
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Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Ilnur Khasanov (aharata)

The Expert Advisor of Ilnur Khasanov (aharata) is holding its place in our TOP-10 chart of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 participants from the third week already, though Ilnur's acquaintance with Forex has started only a year ago. The idea that forms the basis of the Expert Advisor is simple but the trading robot contains self-optimization elements. Perhaps, that is the key to its survival? Besides, the author had to replace the Expert Advisor planned to be submitted for the Championship...

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Nevertheless, your Expert Advisor have had a very small amount of deals for 4 weeks. What were the results during the automatic verifications? Did your Expert Advisor have any problems passing them?
Yes, not many deals... The automatic verifications were passed successfully, I had to recompile and download the robot because of the build. I don't think the Expert Advisor has huge potential but still... I'm very glad that I stay in the TOP-10 for the second week already.

The number of your messages at mql5.com is not so big. Where are you looking for ideas and associates?
Yes, I have not left too many messages. But I don't spend too much time now sitting at my computer. I prefer mql5.com web site, as it is really good (I would even say, it is a Perfect Web Site for People). I always read the forum and the articles attentively. I just like to learn new things. As for ideas... I look for them myself. Sometimes, I can learn something useful from other people. For example, the posts of Boris Odintsov (bobsley) during the previous Championship grabbed my attention.
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The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Ilnur Khasanov (aharata).

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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