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Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Ge Senlin (yyy999)
The Expert Advisor by Ge Senlin (yyy999) from China got featured in the top ten of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 in late October and hasn't left it since then. After the poor results in the previous year ATC, Senlin has prepared a new multicurrency Expert Advisor that never closes loss positions and uses position increase instead. Let's see whether this EA will be able to rise even higher with such a risky strategy.
Last year you also participated in the Automated Trading Championship, but you were not so successful. This year your EA has good results. Have you made any useful conclusions from the previous Championship, which helped you to create a new EA?
True, last year my EA was not successful. It was programmed to trade 5 currency pairs. But due to some programming problem, or because I didn't take into account the running environment of the MT Server during actual Championship, as a result it only traded one currency pair during the competition. This is one of the reasons for my poor participation. Also the trading system was based purely on indicators - perhaps this is another reason.
Therefore, I didn't try to use that EA for this year Championship. I have chosen a different strategy and developed a new EA for participating in the ATC 2011.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Ge Senlin (yyy999).
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: The Roads That Traders Choose
Every year hundreds of traders all over the world submit their best trading robots for the Automated Trading Championship. When tested on historical data, the vast majority of Expert Advisors show impressive results but only a few of them are able to be profitable during the Championship itself. What is the reason for such a different behaviour? And how to improve trading systems setting? In this article we will discuss statistical parameters obtained from the results of the automatic verifications of the trading robots submitted for the Automated Trading Championship 2010.
The full text is available on the Championship website - The Roads That Traders Choose.
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Seventh Week Report
That was the roller-coaster week in the Championship. As a result, our forecast has brilliantly failed on several points. It has been too early for us to say good-bye to the Expert Advisor of Xupypr, as he not only managed to get back to our TOP-10 chart but also took the third place there. The leader of the last weeks ias has rushed down and lost half of his funds. It is occupying the second place now. The first place is captured by the participant from China lf8749. He has also set the new record of the Championship.
If you were tracking the Championship all this time, you must have noticed that the winner of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 Boris Odintsov (bobsley) has appeared in our TOP-10 on the seventh week. His Expert Advisor suffered a terrible drawdown of $8 000, but by some miracle it managed to overcome it and even take the fifth place for some time in the middle of the week. Unfortunately, bobsley's trading robot has performed a series of losing trades resulting in the overall loss of $26 000 and currently has left the TOP-10. This happened after we had taken an interview with him. You will be able to read it tomorrow.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Seventh Week Report.
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
ATC Champions League: Interview with Boris Odintsov (bobsley
Interview with Boris Odintsov (bobsley) is the last one within the ATC Champions League project. Boris won the Automated Trading Championship 2010 - the first Championship held for the Expert Advisors in the new MQL5 language. Having appeared in the top ten already in the first week of the ATC 2010, his EA brought it to the finish and earned $77,000. This year, Boris participates in the competition with the same Expert Advisor with modified settings. Perhaps the robot would still be able to repeat its success.
When did you decide to take part in the ATC 2011? Does the first place in the previous Championship give any confidence?
Yes, it gives confidence, especially in psychological terms. I decided to take part immediately after the ATC 2011 was announced. I had a ready Expert Advisor and only needed to adjust it to the Championship rules. I use the same last year EA in its slightly improved and optimized form. All the information about it can be found in discussions of my EA at the ATC 2010.
What has changed in it?
I've changed the internal settings of the indicator, Stop Loss and Take Profit levels. But of course I will not tell you about all its settings - let it have its own secret.
The full text is available on the Championship website - ATC Champions League: Interview with Boris Odintsov (bobsley).
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Trading Robots with an Open Source Cod
Under the Championship Rules, each participant can send an Expert Advisor as an MQL5 source code or an executable EX5 file. The vast majority of participants, of course, do not wish to disclose their trading idea implemented in the trading robot. Nevertheless, each year some of the Championship participants post the source code of their Expert Advisors, and anyone can download the code of such a robot and see what's in it. We decided to publish some details of these Expert Advisors.
Twelve participants have checked off an option in their Profiles to allow anyone to download their trading robot as EX5 or MQ5. We've prepared a special chart similar to that on the Championship's home page, showing changes in the Equity of each Expert Advisor. So you can see what happened with the account, on which each of the Expert Advisors traded.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Trading Robots with an Open Source Code.
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Eighth Week Report
At the eighth week the gap between the first and the tenth places in TOP-10 increased and exceeded $ 90 000. We can say that the main objective of the past five trading days was not to make money but to preserve already gained profit. This mission has turned out to be impossible for multi-currency Expert Advisors. The common Equity value of ias and yyy999 is less than the Equity of the current leader lf8749, and the participant notused has completely left the TOP-10. At the same time, Xupypr has taken a second place.
However, in the middle of the eighth week the Expert Advisors of ias and notused were going side by side occupying second and third places respectively and there were no any signs of trouble. But they had already been followed by the Expert Advisor of Xupypr having Equity of $65 000 with the open EURUSD position of 15 lots. But Eurozone issues have led to the further descending of the EURUSD on November, 23. That allowed the Expert Advisor of Xupypr to fix a huge profit of $52 000 and stabilize at $80 955.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Eighth Week Report.
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Vitaly Antonov (beast)
It was only this summer that Vitaly Antonov (beast) has learned about the upcoming Automated Trading Championship and got to know MetaTrader 5 terminal. Time was running out, besides, Vitaly was a newcomer. So, he randomly chose GBPUSD currency pair to develop his trading system. And the choice turned out to be successful. It would have been impossible to use other symbols with the strategy.
It seems that your Expert Advisor is written without using MQL5 Wizard, as the Expert Advisors written with the help of Wizard make entries into the Experts log
I have written the code the way I used to do it - from scratch. Therefore, I have deleted everything MQL5 Wizard had created by default. There are no log entries, as the algorithm is simple and I can easily understand what my Expert Advisor is doing.
The trading robot contains MACD indicator. When the Expert Advisor receives a buy/sell signal, it calculates the probability of the fact that the price will actually fall/rise. Depending on received results and the current balance, a lot size is calculated and an order is positioned.The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Vitaly Antonov (beast).
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Statistical Report #2
For two months already trading robots are competing in the Automated Trading Championship 2011. We have witnessed breathtaking rises and sudden downfalls, sometimes the leaders were changing one another and sometimes it seemed that the situation was perfectly clear. In our first statistical report we observed the correlation of profitable and loss-making Expert Advisors and some other parameters that can be interesting for the Championship participants and spectators.
In our second report we are going to examine the Championship results concerning 43 trading days (October, 3 through November, 31) from different aspects. We have separately calculated the daily number of deals performed by single and multicurrency Expert Advisors. That allowed to evaluate the shares of each group of trading robots in the total number of the Championship deals performed every day.
In a similar ATC 2010 report we observed trades (not deals), i.e. the deals that fixed some definite financial result from trading operations as a profit or a loss on a trading account. We have also prepared this data to allow you:
The full text is available on the Championship website - Statistical Report #2.
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Ninth Week Report
Another change of leaders has suddenly occured on the ninth week. Four times from Monday to Wednesday the Expert Advisor of lf8749 was buying and selling successively after loading itself by 15 EURUSD lots. But its transactions have turned out to be unsuccessful and its balance chart has fallen rapidly from the level $122 000. The remaining members of the TOP-10 have also shown some activity and the leadership was passing from hand to hand for several times.
Our TOP-10 chart is represented only by three countries now: six participants are from Russia, three are from China and one participant is from Germany. And it is quite probable that representatives of these three countries will be the winners of the Automated Trading Championship 2011. And while the Russian participants have always been comprising the major part of the current competition TOP-10, the third participant tradelife from China is a newcomer there. The balance chart of its trading robot is unstable and it may leave the TOP-10 soon.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Ninth Week Report.
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
Automated Trading Championship 2011: Interview with Andrey Bobryashov (tmt0086)
Since the first Automated Trading Championship we have seen plenty of trading robots in our TOP-10 created with the use of various methods. Excellent results were shown both by the Exper Advisors based on standard indicators, and complicated analytical complexes with weekly automatic optimization of their own parameters. But still we have never seen an Expert Advisor based on the wave theory competing with trading robots based on neural networks and enhanced mathematical models. The author of this unusual trading robot Andrey Bobryashov (tmt0086) believes that there is nothing difficult in that.
It is said that Wave Analysis is mostly an art than a science. And creation of an automatic trading system based on it is a very complicatedtask.How have you managed to do that?
Indeed, the wave analysis is an art or a creative work, to be exact. Construction of the waves is like a picture painting. It always has an alternative interpretation. It seems that the disputes of wave analytics about the waves construction will continue until the market exists.
An attempt to program the wave analysis in its classical form is sheer madness, of course. I took the Folding Rule as a basis of a wave end and checked it using the tester. The robot was trading having profitable and loss-making trades successively. Then I added money management and ABC and received much better result.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Andrey Bobryashov (tmt0086).
The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Marketsand Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.