On September 23, 2011 at 23:59 (Moscow time) registration for participation in the Automated Trading Championship 2011 was finished.
Since that time Expert Advisors are not accepted anymore, the EA automated verification system is stopped and it is already impossible to apply for participation in the Championship. During the remaining days until the start of the contest the Expert Advisors and personal details will be checked manually. The multiple registrations facts will be revised as well.
For almost four months we have been accepting applications for participation in the contest. 2442 applicants in total have been registered during this time. This is 716 people more than last year.
Though it was quite expectable, it must be noted that a real burst of activity was detected during the Registration last days. From September 12 to 23 the number of the Expert Advisors submitted to the Championship more than doubled increasing from 221 to 510.
As a result, personal data of 1217 applicants (out of 2442 ones) was approved. 510 applicants attached their Expert Advisors. 397 of them have passed automatic verifications at the moment. Therefore, only 16% from the initial number of potential participants will most probably test their Expert Advisors in the competition.
The article "Preferences of the ATC 2010 Participants" reveals the statistical data that had been obtained after the testing reports of all the Expert Advisors submitted for the Automated Trading Championship 2010 were analyzed. The following basic parameters were considered: the symbol and the timeframe on which an Expert Advisor was tested and also the number of input parameters.
This time we analyzed basic report parameters of 506 Expert Advisors that had been subject to automatic tests for Automated Trading Championship 2011 and compared them with the same parameters of the Expert Advisors that had been submitted for the last year's Championship.
Distribution of Expert Advisors Based on Currency Pairs
In comparison with the previous Championship there are no any significant changes concerning currency pairs. EURUSD is still the most popular pair. More than 80% of participants have chosen it this year. It is almost 12% more than last year. At that, the number of the Expert Advisors working with GBPUSD decreased by 7%.
