thx for the comprehensive answer. Many PhD students would be glad to be able to publish results and gather credit points that way. You can really take KDD CUP (http://www.kdd2007.com/kddcup.html) as a good example. Besides academia, many serious practitioners participated (and won prices). Also consider checking out The Penn-Lehmann Automated Trading Project http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/projects/pat.html
On the Automated Trading Championship 2007 website, article "30 Days of Registration" has been published. A month has passed since the registration in Automated Trading Championship 2007 was opened. Almost 650 people have already applied for participation. This is practically equal to the total amount of applications in Championship 2006. There are still 52 days left until Registration is over. The full text of the article is published on the Automated Trading Championship 2007 website in the News section.
On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, an Interview with Andrei Moraru (enivid) has been published. Andrei Moraru is a programmer from Ukraine. He is not so long ago in the Forex market, but already develops his own trading strategies. He thinks that the success of an Expert Advisor is quite easy â a competent money-management strategy and stable forecasting of successful entry and exit points. The attempts to create an automated Expert Advisor without these two qualities are doomed to failure. The interview was published on the website of Automated Trading Championship 2007 in the News section.
You can ask this question directly from Andrei. Just register in ATC and go to the page of the interview.
On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, an Interview with Al Parsai has been published. Al Parsai develops solutions for users of MetaTrader 4 (PipBoxer) and teaches how to develop Expert Advisors and other MQL4 programs. He is going to participate in the Automated Trading Championship 2007. He is preparing his special EA for this now. As against Ahmed Soliman (CodersGuru), Al takes his independent stand on money management - I would say while Money Management is a very important element, a complete EA is the one that consists of a successful strategy, risk management, and money management. The interview was published on the website of Automated Trading Championship 2007 in the News section.
On the website of Automated Trading Championship 2007, a new article by Rashid Umarov (Rosh), "Mathematics in Trading: How to Estimate Trade Results", has been published. A certain level of mathematical background is required of any trader, and this statement needs no proof. The matter is only: How can we define this minimum required level? In growth of his or her trading experience, trader often widens his or her outlook "single-handed", reading posts on forums or various books. Some books require lower level of mathematical background of readers, some, on the contrary, inspire one to study or brush up one's knowledge in one field of pure sciences or another. We will try to give some estimates and their interpretations in this single article. The full text of the article is published on the Automated Trading Championship 2007 website in the News section.
On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, an Interview with Andrey Vedikhin has been published. Andrey Vedikhin, a Jury member representing Alpari (UK) Limited., has almost 15-year experience on financial markets. The author of the book named Forex from the First Person. Now, he is writing his second book devoted to automated trading. Andrey considers automated trading systems to be able to trade without human intervention: "In my opinion, the simplest and most effective solution would be to diversify trading tactics. I mean you should create several Expert Advisors for all of lifeâs emergencies and launch them simultaneously on several accounts". The interview was published on the website of Automated Trading Championship 2007 in the News section.
On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2007, a Video Interview with Rashid Umarov has been published. Rashid Umarov participated in the Automated Trading Championship 2006. Rashid continuously studies and analyzes financial markets, develops analytical tools. In his video interview, he tells about how he analyzed information for the new Championship's reporting - "the main conclusion is that it is insufficient to have a profitable strategy: it is necessary to strengthen its advantages and smooth its disadvantages. This is the point in money management: You should gain the largest profit from your approach, your Expert Advisor, your system with minimal risk and in maximal amounts, without being short of it. This is the most important thing, to my mind." The video interview was published on the website of Automated Trading Championship 2007 in the News section.