Automated Trading Championship 2010

We are glad to announce that the Automated Trading Championship will be conducted this year - in 2010. The main purpose of the competition is promoting the idea of the automated trading and the new development environment MetaQuotes Language 5 (MQL5). The total prize of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 is 80,000 US dollars.

We always do our best to conduct the Automated Trading Championship on the highest level. This year we keep on preparing the most interesting Championship for you. On the official website of the ATC, we will publish details of all its Participants. Anyone can visit this website to watch trading dynamics of any Expert Advisor and its characteristics. We will also publish weekly statistical reports, interviews with Participants and useful articles. These materials are intended to show the full information on performance of automated trading systems and help traders to develop profitable Expert Advisors.

As distinct from previous competitions, MQL5-programs will participate in Championship 2010. "This year we are going to release the new MetaTrader 5 Platform with the new Expert Advisor development environment - MQL5. That's why we decided to conduct the new competition among Expert Advisors written in MQL5." - Stanislav Starikov, the senior developer of the MetaTrader 5 client terminal and the MQL5 environment, said.

For the three years of the competition conduction, the Championship has become extremely popular being a specialized site where developers from all over the world can demonstrate their programs. Many EA writers use the Championship as a chance to show their programs and advertise their services. We invite you to take part in the Automated Trading Championship 2010 and prove that you know how to develop profitable Expert Advisors.

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When will the strategy tester for MT5 be finished?

Till the end of this week we will release beta-version of Tester and distribute it among several most active visitors of MQL4.community and MQL5.community. On the next week we are going to release Strategy Tester to public.

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Well, as we promised, we`ve released the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester. Now you can test your developments. New Tester supports multicurrency EAs and Distributed Optimization (you can use the CPUs of local computers). Also it has become more precise and powerful. Check for yourself, Roland.

As you may know, the Automated Trading Championship 2010 will be conducted soon. Currently preparations are underway for the upcoming contest.

However, this year the Championship is conducted only for MQL5 Expert Advisors written for the new MetaTrader 5 terminal. Probably, some of the developers didn't have enough time to acquaint themselves with the new terminal, its trading system and the MQL5 development environment. Therefore, this year we decided to extend the registration period for the participants of the Automated Trading Championship 2010.

Registration of participants will start on the 1st of June, not July. On this day, we will officially launch the Championship website and start the registration. Anyone will be able to participate in the Automated Trading Championship 2010. Simply submit your application, fill out your personal details and send us your Expert Advisor. The registration end date is the same - the 22nd of September.

On the Championship website, we will publish different materials to help all developers to correctly prepare their Expert Advisors and complete registration. Also comments and explanations of the Championship Rules will be published there.

The new MQL5.community website will also be helpful for all those who decided to participate in the contest. We have published the full documentation, about 100 MQL5 programs and dozens of articles on this website. All these publications will assist you in developing Expert Advisors and indicators in MQL5.

Sponsors of the ATC 2010 are: Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), MIG Bank and FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC). Media sponsors are the TRADERS' magazine and Dow Jones. The organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.

Everyone who gives them insight in his/her EA for registration purpose gives at the same time all the mt4/5 brokers an edge against the trader when it comes to live trading with an EA...

Think about it twice before u deliver/publish your cash-machine to the industry's leading broker-software provider.

This is why you give your next best EA, to the competition, win some prize money, then use your best EA on a broker.

Ronald, I don't have a "next best EA", they are all to good to be given away

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Hi Onu, RR,
I develop recent strategy EA with daily ~20% gain.
Still testing the EA and would like to see whether it can be with consistent results.
At least test live for one month...

Just would like to benchmark, what is your good EA %gain?
Agree, good EA kept for yourself...for competition is to gain fast capital...

I did it before, and can do it again

My best EA hits anywhere between 2% and 1,000% on a given day with minimal drawdown.

Unlike you akukaya, I don't aim for an EA to make consistent money like a bond would.

Hi RR, that is wow!

Then I think you are looking for "the day" trading.

For me, I run my best EA daily, with minimum DD too.

Looks like the registration has already started:
http://championship.mql5.com/2010/en/rules

thanks, my friend! Yes the registration is started and now anybody can take part in ATC 2010. Thats a news: http://www.mql5.com/en/forum/1096
And thats a new championship website: http://championship.mql5.com/2010/en

MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal can be downloaded here: http://files.metaquotes.net/metaquot...5/mt5setup.exe

Have a nice trend!

PS: enivid, i hope to see you on ATC 2010!

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010, an article One Month of Registration of Automated Trading Championship 2010 has been published.

A month has passed since the beginning of registration of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 participants. During this period, we received about 400 applications. Nearly the same number of applications was received for the first month of registration in 2006, when the first Automated Trading Championship was held. Such a small number of applications is due to the use of a new development environment: in 2006 the Championship was the first competition for the developers of trading systems in MQL4; now the ATC 2010 is a pioneer in the competitive development of trading systems in MQL5.

Rashid Umarov, a specialist of MetaQuotes Software Corp., believes that the total number of applicants will finally exceed 3000, while more than 500 users will participate in the Championship. Such was the experience of past competitions.

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The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 are the following: Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), MIG Bank SA, FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC). Media-sponsors - TRADERS' journal and Dow Jones & Co. information agency. The Organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.

shoot...........now I have to start hunting for a MT5 EA builder

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 a new article has been published: The Evolution of Expert Advisors in 2006-2008. It provides an analysis of the various parameters of Expert Advisors, which have been sent to the Championships of the years 2006-2008. From the provided materials you will learn how the Expert Advisors and the average level of developers has changed throughout these three Championships.

The profitability of Expert Advisors increases from year to year, developers create more and more complicated Expert Advisors, and the vast majority of robots already contain the embedded modules of money management. Multi-currency MQL4 Expert Advisors evolved slowly, but the Organizers hope that this situation will change at the Championship of 2010.

The article is published on the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 in the News section.

The sponsors of the Championship are: Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), MIG BANK SA and FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC). Media-sponsors - the TRADERS' journal and the Dow Jones & Co. The Organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 a new article has been published: MetaTrader 5 - everything for automates trading!. It contains a detailed overview of all the components of the MQL5 developing environment. The object-oriented approach in the MQL5 language, the support of distributed optimization and multicurrency testing in the Strategy Tester, the use of a single Expert Advisor on a number of financial markets, the new services of MQL5.com, the debugger in MetaEditor - all of these topics are covered by the material of this article.

The article is published on the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 in the News section.

The sponsors of the Championship are: Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), MIG BANK SA and FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC). The media sponsors are the TRADERS' journal and the Dow Jones information agency. The Organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010, we've published the new article: The Complexity of Transition to MetaTrader 5. It describes the difficulties that developers of Expert Advisors may face during the transition to the new platform. Read the article to learn the effect of the transition to the new platform, what advantages this will provide to a developer and how to facilitate adaptation to the new MQL5.

The article is published on the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 in the News section.

The sponsors of the Championship are: Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), MIG BANK SA and FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC). The media sponsors are the TRADERS' journal and the Dow Jones information agency. The Organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.

On the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 an Interview with Nikolay Kositsin has been published. Nikolay believes multicurrency Expert Advisors are a promising direction; and he is an experienced developer of such robots. At the championships, Nikolay participates only with multicurrency EAs. His Expert Advisor was the only multicurrency EA among the prize winners of all the ATC contests.

The article is published on the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 in the News section.

The sponsors of the Championship are: Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), MIG BANK SA and FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC). The media sponsors are the TRADERS' journal and the Dow Jones information agency. The Organizer of the Championship is MetaQuotes Software Corp.

So... who's gonna be in the 2010 competition? Also, any guesses as to where the top trader's account balances will be at the end of it?

Judging from the past couple championships, I'm guessing the top EA will end up with a balance of around $80k this year