Automated Trading Championship 2012 Has Started!

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Interview with Mariusz Zarnowski (zrn)
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May I ask him:

1. The system didn't go anywhere in the first 5 weeks. Why?
2. The system has been losing in the last 4 weeks. Why?

Except for a 2 weeks period in November, that system sucks like hell...

May I ask you: Is there actually a truly decent system owner whom you can interview? By the way congrats on the continuous advertising without sponsorship...
 
Championship's Eleventh Week Minutes

Automated Trading Championship 2012 is coming to an end, and we present you some statistical data on the eleventh week in our Championship Minutes! The main event of the week is "restart" at GBPJPY. On the contrary, USDJPY still shows signs of "stagnation".

Here you will know about the distribution of the number of deals, profits and losses at each currency pair, as well as the average return of each trading deal.

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The full text of the news can be found on the Championship's website - Championship's Eleventh Week Minutes.
 
Interview with Ruslan Ziyatdinov (rusland1962)

The Championship keeps providing us with new discoveries, as well as new interesting Participants and unusual ideas implemented in the competition trading robots. While interviewing Ruslan Ziyatdinov (rusland1962), we learned about his simple approach to trading and found out why it is better to trade less frequently.

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Hello, Ruslan! It is the first time you are participating in the Championship and you are already close enough to a winning position. Where are you from and how long do you deal with the automated trading?
I live in the Far North in Khanymey village of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. I started developing Expert Advisors a year ago after I tried to trade manually using the terminal of VTB24 Bank called onlinebroker. Then VTB24 offered MetaTrader 5 platform. While using the platform, I also had some MQL5 programming experience. At first, I did not have enough knowledge, as I was not quite good at C++. My daughter Elvira, who is a programmer and mathematician graduated from Tomsk university, helped me to master all the peculiarities of the language.

First of all, I tried to generate Expert Advisors and test them. Then I decided to develop trading robots following my own mathematical models. I selected the Expert Advisor based on ATR and started to improve it. As a result, I had about 15 Expert Advisors based on various models at the beginning of the Championship. I have chosen the most reliable of them according to the test results. However, the final optimization has been performed on a light-duty netbook, as I was on vacation that time having a rest in one of the Altai health resorts. Therefore, the number of test passes was small. Now, I use the remarkable function of the strategy tester – connect all available home PCs to perform optimization works. That helped me to increase productivity as much as eight times.

The full text of the news can be found at the Championship's website - Interview with Ruslan Ziyatdinov (rusland1962).
 
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Oh but I do. For example how come that the last 2 featured traders' performances are very identical??? Rusland's equity is just like zrn's, pretty much nothing in October, a very good 3 weeks in November, and since than a big nothing sideways...

Assuming that these systems are completely independent, how come their performances are copies of each other????

Edit: After further checking zrn is already out of the top 10, my bad.... :)
 
The twelfth week of the Championship has turned out to be quite an eventful time. The leading position changed hands making it impossible to predict the winners of the Automated Trading Championship 2012. Besides, for the first time, half of the TOP-10 is occupied by multicurrency Expert Advisors.
Twelfth Week - Rise of Multicurrency Trading Robots

It is not the first time that the position of JPAlonso (USA) is worsening. However, each time he was able to regain his losses, although the gap between him and his rivals has been steadily reducing. On Thursday, December 20, it seemed that all predictions of his downfall have finally come true, as his trading robot has temporarily found itself on the fourth position letting chuliweb, FIFO and SAFF occupy the TOP-3. But EURUSD has entered the phase of technical correction on Friday after the rapid growth bringing the current leader back to the first position.

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The full text of the news can be found on the Championship's website: Twelfth Week - Rise of Multicurrency Trading Robots.
 
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Oh but I do. For example how come that the last 2 featured traders' performances are very identical??? Rusland's equity is just like zrn's, pretty much nothing in October, a very good 3 weeks in November, and since than a big nothing sideways...

Assuming that these systems are completely independent, how come their performances are copies of each other????

Edit: After further checking zrn is already out of the top 10, my bad.... :)
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Why dont you just keep quiet and make your own trading championship then. You are probably one of the most annoying people ive ever read on this site. You have zero respect for the time and effort put into stuff like this aparently
 
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Why dont you just keep quiet and make your own trading championship then.
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Merry Christmas to you too!

Now why are you crying? I am all for the Championship, I just don't like the results. And if the competition can't stand up to criticism, than you know how much it worth... Don't forget, we are looking at the very best, so imagine the losers...

The top guy made all his money in the first 3 weeks, since than it has been struggling. The #2 guy was sensible enough to turn off his system after realizing 50+K is going to be enough for the top 3 position. etc.etc None of them is making money consistently...

But I tell you what: Invest in the top 10 even money and report back how much you LOSE....

P.S.: Man, I hate crybabies.....
 
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Why dont you just keep quiet and make your own trading championship then. You are probably one of the most annoying people ive ever read on this site. You have zero respect for the time and effort put into stuff like this aparently
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We don't call him Lil Pecker for nothing.

Check his his last journal:http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113413&perpage=30&pagenumber=2

Notice he was down over 100 ES points at one time. But still claimed to be beating the market. It was all paper trading of course.
 
Here is a Christmas gift for ya:

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You have zero respect for the time and effort put into stuff like this aparently
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Why would I give respect for zero results? I respect good result, unfortunately, those are hard to come by.

Let's look at the guys interviewed in this thread in the beginning (thus you might have thought it was a good idea to throw money at their systems) when they were part of the top 10:

--Achmad Hidayat (achidayat) down -70%

--Rogério Figurelli (figurelli) down -60%

--Andrey Barinov (Wahoo) down -70%

--García García (chuliweb) up 220% (although very inconsistent)

-- Alexander Prishchenko (Crucian) down -50%

-- Egidijus Bockus (Egidijus) up 150% (the first guy I actually like)

--Matúš German (gery18) down 95%

--Anton Nel (ROMAN5) down -80%

-- Dmitry Terentew (SAFF) up 300% (very consistent, so far the best)

etc.etc.

So what did we learn here? That it was pretty much impossible to pick a group of winners (you needed a few weeks performance to judge first) and invest with them because of the very inconsistent average performance of the systems... If you picked them after 2 weeks, you would be down by now in your investment, because most of them made their money in the first few weeks...

And that is my present to you whiners who can't do objective evaluation on your own..

Merry Christmas again...
 
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