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Sergiu Luzov #:

For me, a competition should separate the high‑risk algos — martingale, big lot sizes, hidden logic, marketing hype — from the real engines that use small lots and don’t depend on spread tricks, HFT, or slippage.

I lost over 5k with “TOPs EA” here because the developers didn’t mention the real risk or the hidden logic. Without a proper competition, you can’t tell which algos actually work in real‑market conditions. a transparent competition would clearly show which engines are genuine and which ones are just high‑risk marketing products.

Ryan L Johnson #:

Here I go again... That's what proprietary trading firms are for.

As you allude, Maritingaling will blow any proprietary trading firm account in the long run─if Martingaling were even allowed by such a firm.

Did I saw anything different? I said Martingale strategy will blow any account in the long term.... unless hypothetically you have infinite amount of capital. 
 
Sergiu Luzov #:

For me, a competition should separate the high‑risk algos — martingale, big lot sizes, hidden logic, marketing hype — from the real engines that use small lots and don’t depend on spread tricks, HFT, or slippage.

I lost over 5k with “TOPs EA” here because the developers didn’t mention the real risk or the hidden logic. Without a proper competition, you can’t tell which algos actually work in real‑market conditions. a transparent competition would clearly show which engines are genuine and which ones are just high‑risk marketing products.

Sorry for your loss. That is why testing and interacting with the developers is super necessarily. Expertise in choosing the correct EA for correct trade is the key here... I had suggested something in other forum related to testing before using. 
 
good idea!
 
Sergiu Luzov #:

For me, a competition should separate the high‑risk algos — martingale, big lot sizes, hidden logic, marketing hype — from the real engines that use small lots and don’t depend on spread tricks, HFT, or slippage.

I lost over 5k with “TOPs EA” here because the developers didn’t mention the real risk or the hidden logic. Without a proper competition, you can’t tell which algos actually work in real‑market conditions. a transparent competition would clearly show which engines are genuine and which ones are just high‑risk marketing products.

While I understand why, I strongly disagree with the part where you see it fit to disregard micro scalping trading strategies like HFTs

In my experience with automated systems there seems to be very little room for long term profitability between the extremes of trade holding period. Either very short term, or very long term. 

And excluding a type of strategy would make no sense as the entire point is to measure long term profitability so it wouldn’t matter that it’s pseudo HFT if it generates good returns MoM
 
Andrew Pun Magar #:
Did I sa[y] anything different? I said Martingale strategy will blow any account in the long term.... unless hypothetically you have infinite amount of capital. 

No, you did not. I merely reiterated your statement, following my statement about proprietary trading firms.

When you "allude" to something, you imply the statement. I simply stated the same exact thing, directly. That is all.

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