Automated Trading Championship 2011 Has Started!

Discussion in 'Automated Trading' started by Rosh67, Oct 3, 2011.

  1. #51     Dec 7, 2011
  2. Rosh67

    Rosh67

    Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Valery Mazurenko (notused)

    The task of writing an Expert Advisor trading on multiple currency pairs is complex both in terms of finding suitable strategies and from the technological side. But if the goal is set clear, nothing is impossible then. It was four times already that Vitaly Mazurenko (notused) submitted his multi-currency Expert Advisor. It seems, he has managed to find the right way this time.

    We have not been able to interview him when his Expert Advisor was in TOP-10 but the interest for his trading robot remains. Valery has revealed us his recipe for multi-currency Expert Advisors.

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    The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Valery Mazurenko (notused).

    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.
     
    #52     Dec 9, 2011
  3. Iti s quite sensible to trade this size with this account. Yes, you run a high risk of bankrupty, but this is not investment - this is a championship, and you want to be 1st. The rules are different in this case - you need to take high risk and hope you are lucky on top, because others DO take high risk and SOMEONE will be lucky.

    Not saying the programs are crap, just that risk management is running under very special parameters here.
     
    #53     Dec 9, 2011
  4. Rosh67

    Rosh67

    Automated Trading Championship 2011: Tenth Week Report

    That week has turned out to be the most complicated in the Championship. The TOP-3 is still occupied by the same participants from Russia, Germany and China, though their positions have changed. The main question was if the Expert Advisor of lf8749 would be able to overcome $100 000 level again, but the answer is still unclear. We don't know about the basis of his Expert Advisor, which was ascending so perfectly for 8 weeks and then suddenly started falling. It has lost almost $14 000 this week and moved to the third place. But two weeks before the end of the Championship may be enough for it to change the situation.

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    The next to last eleventh week of the Championship has started and we decrease the number of potential winners of the Automated Trading Championship 2011. Future winners are in the TOP-10 now and it is unlikely that someone else can interfere. But none of the TOP-10 participants can be absolutely sure of that and we will see the end of this exciting competition soon.

    The full text is available on the Championship website - Tenth 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.
     
    #54     Dec 12, 2011
  5. Rosh67

    Rosh67

    Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Li Fang (lf8749)

    On the seventh week of the Championship, Li Fang's Expert Advisor (lf8749) set a new record - it earned over $100,000 in 10 trades. This successful series helped the Expert Advisor to stay at the very top of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 rating for two weeks. In this interview we tried to find out the secret of Li Fang's success.

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    The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Li Fang (lf8749).

    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.
     
    #55     Dec 18, 2011
  6. Humpy

    Humpy

    If I was going to put real money on any of these robots, I would favour " tim " as it has a regular equity curve. This would indicate that it is not a gambling programme, taking large risks.

    I think this factor should be taken into consideration for picking the winner
     
    #56     Dec 18, 2011
  7. Rosh67

    Rosh67

    Automated Trading Championship 2011: Multicurrency Expert Advisors in the ATC 2011

    Of all the Expert Advisors participating in the current Championship, 104 EAs are multicurrency, i.e. they trade two or more currency pairs. We decided to see how they differ from single currency Expert Advisors in terms of trading performance: the ratio of profitable and losing EAs, convenient and inconvenient currency pairs. For the record, we used trading data for the first two months of the competition.

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    "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Leo Tolstoy said. Does the gain or loss depend on the currency pair? Why do most of participants of the ATC contests choose EURUSD and almost do no trade outsider currencies? According to Statistical Report #1, the most unloved pairs for single currency EAs were the following: USDJPY, AUDUSD, USDCAD and EURAUD.

    Since EURUSD is traded by over 85% of single currency Expert Advisors, let's visualize it in a separate diagram. We have calculated daily results of all deals that lock in profit for EURUSD, and have plotted a curve by days of the first two months.

    The full text is available on the Championship website - Multicurrency Expert Advisors in the ATC 2011.

    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.
     
    #57     Dec 19, 2011
  8. Rosh67

    Rosh67

    Automated Trading Championship 2011: Eleventh Week Report

    The Championship's TOP-10 is still rich for surprises and exciting moments. During the eleventh week the Championship leader, the Expert Advisor of Xupypr from Russia has finally fixed its profit causing joy among its fans and now it is staying still. The second place is being occupied by the multi-currency Expert Advisor of yyy999 from China. It has 8 open positions and all of them are losing ones. The trading robot of Tim from Germany is coming third.

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    The last week of the Championship will put an end to the three-month competition and the authors of Expert Advisors from TOP-10 will finally be able to relax. 5 trading days are left before the winners of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 will be finally determined. And every participant desires the course of market events to be most favorable for their Expert Advisor. We wish good luck to all the participants!

    The full text is available on the Championship website - Eleventh 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.
     
    #58     Dec 20, 2011
  9. Rosh67

    Rosh67

    Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Andrea Zani (sbraer)

    On the eleventh week of the Automated Trading Championship, Andrea Zani (sbraer) got featured very close to the top five of the competition. It is on the sixth place with about 47,000 USD now. Andrea's Expert Advisor AZXY has made only one losing deal, which was at the very beginning of the Championship. Since then, its equity curve has been steadily growing.

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    The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Andrea Zani (sbraer).

    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.
     
    #59     Dec 22, 2011
  10. d08

    d08

    Agreed. But as you said yourself, it makes the competition about luck and not skill.
     
    #60     Dec 22, 2011