Automated Trading Championship 2009 Will Not Be Conducted
Dear Traders and Expert Advisors Developers,
Organization and conduction of the Automated Trading Championship is
a very complicated project. For the maintenance of this competition our
company needs to involve tens of specialists from different
departments. Among persons involved in the conduction of Championships
there are Developers of Trading Platforms and specialists of the
Software Testing Department.
As you might know, now we are engaged in the development of a new trading platform MetaTrader 5; its release is planned for this year. All our forces are now concentrated on the platform release, and soon it will be presented to you for beta testing. Focusing all our resources on this release, we don't want to be distracted from this target.
Besides, the new platform will contain a new environment for the development of trading strategies - MQL5 IDE. We find it more reasonable to conduct the next Championship using the new language. However, it is unlikely that potential participants will manage to learn MQL5 and write new Expert Advisors in it. Due to this the number of potential Participants may be much lower - this is sure to have a negative effect on the attraction of the Championship.
Taking into account all this we decided not to conduct the ATC this year. Instead of this we will concentrate our efforts on the release of the new MetaTrader 5 platform and next year we will conduct the Championship for Expert Advisors written in MQL5.
As much as I like the ATC, I appreciate very much your continued dedication to developing MQL5 & MT5; it will serve all of us much better than the ATC.
"As much as I like the ATC, I appreciate very much your continued dedication to developing MQL5 & MT5; it will serve all of us much better than the ATC."
Agree
Lenar,
like many others I'm waiting for your upcoming major-release. Can you please name some of the features we can expect in MT5?
Regards
will MQL5 have an external debugger? one that, say, we could use as a add-in to MS Visual Studio?
Dear Traders and Expert Advisors Developers,
Organization and conduction of the Automated Trading Championship is a very complicated project. ...
Lenar, I think that the most important feature to implement on MQL is backtesting with multiple symbols, and just a feature like this could justify delay a traditional championship. All the rest we can found a way to implement. Regards.
WOW!! Finally, MetaTrader Language 5 is gonna come out. One of the features I like the most must be the object-oriented styles. It would be much easier to program.
Thanks
Many other concurrent products are much easier to handle than MetaTrader and/or have more features. Especially when it comes to automated code generation, most other products are miles ahead. I really hope MT5 will bring some improvements in this area. OO-Programming itself would be no reason for me to switch to MQL5. Makes certain things even more complicated...
The most disappointing thing about MT for me is that I permanently have to code stuff, that everyone has to code (or should, at least), like handling errors in all areas. Everyone who's using MT in a serious way has to reinvent the wheel! This takes a massive amount of time - time that I cannot invest in what I actually should do, design trading algorithms. This is all just framework.
I decided, that if MT5 won't come up with massive improvements in these areas, I'll switch to something else. That's why I was asking for a feature list of MT5.
I don't understand why you just post a simple feature-list and a release date. Transparency isn't really one of your strengths.
Many other concurrent products are much easier to handle than MetaTrader and/or have more features. Especially when it comes to automated code generation, most other products are miles ahead. I really hope MT5 will bring some improvements in this area. OO-Programming itself would be no reason for me to switch to MQL5. Makes certain things even more complicated...
The most disappointing thing about MT for me is that I permanently have to code stuff, that everyone has to code (or should, at least), like handling errors in all areas. Everyone who's using MT in a serious way has to reinvent the wheel! This takes a massive amount of time - time that I cannot invest in what I actually should do, design trading algorithms. This is all just framework.
I decided, that if MT5 won't come up with massive improvements in these areas, I'll switch to something else. That's why I was asking for a feature list of MT5.
I don't understand why you just post a simple feature-list and a release date. Transparency isn't really one of your strengths.
I have to agree to Schnappi's comment. I am using a different programming language at work (more similar to C#) and I am always confused about the lack of some basic features, e.g. debugger.
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Dear Traders and Expert Advisors Developers,
Organization and conduction of the Automated Trading Championship is a very complicated project. For the maintenance of this competition our company needs to involve tens of specialists from different departments. Among persons involved in the conduction of Championships there are Developers of Trading Platforms and specialists of the Software Testing Department.
As you might know, now we are engaged in the development of a new trading platform MetaTrader 5; its release is planned for this year. All our forces are now concentrated on the platform release, and soon it will be presented to you for beta testing. Focusing all our resources on this release, we don't want to be distracted from this target.
Besides, the new platform will contain a new environment for the development of trading strategies - MQL5 IDE. We find it more reasonable to conduct the next Championship using the new language. However, it is unlikely that potential participants will manage to learn MQL5 and write new Expert Advisors in it. Due to this the number of potential Participants may be much lower - this is sure to have a negative effect on the attraction of the Championship.
Taking into account all this we decided not to conduct the ATC this year. Instead of this we will concentrate our efforts on the release of the new MetaTrader 5 platform and next year we will conduct the Championship for Expert Advisors written in MQL5.