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Automated Trading Championship 2011 Has Started!

  • #1
  • First Post: Oct 3, 2011 3:51am Oct 3, 2011 3:51am
Today is October 3, 2011 and Automated Trading Championship 2011 has started. Completed are all the preparatory steps: all Expert Advisors of Championship participants have been finally checked and approved. This year 395 trading robots will fight for the 80 000 US dollars prize.

Top three places in terms of EAs allowed to the competition this year are shared by Russia (32,8%), Ukraine (9,5%) and China (5,3%). United States of America were on the third place last year. Now this country has descended to the seventh place sharing it with Indonesia. Nine EAs from Italy have surprisingly emerged in our top ten! By this criterion the Italians will be competing on equal terms with representatives of Bulgaria, while yielding one place to Japan.

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The full text is available on the Championship website - Automated Trading Championship 2011 Has Started!

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #2
  • Oct 8, 2011 12:48pm Oct 8, 2011 12:48pm
We remind you that according to paragraph III of the Rules, Participants' Expert Advisors must be "free of any critical programming bugs in the code" and easily handle such emergency situations. Restart of the Expert Advisors is scheduled for non-trading time between October 7 and 10, 2011.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Preparing to Restart Terminals with Participating Expert Advisors.

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #3
  • Oct 11, 2011 8:54am Oct 11, 2011 8:54am
From the first seconds of Monday, October 3, 2011 the quotes of the MetaQuotes-Demo trading server started their flow, almost four hundred trading terminals of the competition participants came to life and the first deals were made during the first seconds of the Championship. According to our experience, FIFO (First In, First Out) principle is most common during the competition. It means that the Expert Advisors which started their trading activity from the first minutes will most probably be the first to fall out of the race.

The first two days everyone's attention was grabbed by the successfull start of the participant sallirom from Spain. For such a short time the Expert Advisor enlarged the volume of the open position up to the maximum permissible value of 15 lots. Also, the Expert Advisor modified the Stop Loss of the open position actively. Finally, the deal was fixed with $12 140 of profit and the balance reached $22 140! But this is where sallirom's luck ended. A series of loss-making deals has devastated the balance. And now it is equal to less than $5000. It is hard to believe that there were the moments when the value of equity reached $34000!

The Champion crown was at once picked up by the Expert Advisor of gery18 from Slovakia and for now it seems it is not going to drop it. The Expert Advisor has finished the week without open positions but having almost $35000 on its account.

The full text is available on the Championship website - First Week Report.

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #4
  • Oct 13, 2011 2:58am Oct 13, 2011 2:58am
On the second day of the Championship the Expert Advisor created by Matúš German (gery18) increased its capital by 2.5 times and took the lead being ahead of all competitors. Matúš himself doubts his Expert Advisor will win, he thinks that luck and high risk were the reasons of such unexpected rise.

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Why is your Expert Advisor named "ManagerChampion"?

I named it so because of the strategy. When it closes a trade, the system analyzes the size of possible profit or loss it would have had, if it had been working with 1 lot. From the imaginary equity from that 1 lot it decides if it should use aggressive money management (MM) or open fewer number of lots. It is not a good idea to use only account Equity when calculating a trading volume because the Equity greatly depends on a money management method.

To calculate a trading volume...
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Matúš German (gery18).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #5
  • Edited 2:58am Oct 14, 2011 12:16am | Edited 2:58am
The Automated Trading Championship 2011 is notable in that all the previous winners of the competition participate in it. At the very beginning of the 2011 contest, when it is yet early to make any predictions, we talked to them about their win, about the new competition and the Expert Advisors that are fighting for the first place this year.
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For the 2011 Championship, these participants have prepared completely new Expert Advisors, and we will follow their fate during the whole competition. But regardless of their results, these developers will remain for ever in the history of the Automated Trading Championship, since they were once able to successfully apply their talents and feel the market moods, and luck was once favorable to them.
The full text is available on the Championship website - ATC Champions League.


The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #6
  • Oct 17, 2011 6:06am Oct 17, 2011 6:06am
Antonio Morillas from Spain (sallirom) was first who doubled his starting balance from the beginning of the Championship and thus attracted our attention. His trading strategy is extremely risky. We decided to talk to Antonio about risk and luck as these are part and parcel of Automated Trading Championship.

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What was harder: to develop a strategy or program it? Which language do you like more: MQL4 or MQL5?
The hardest thing was of course the strategy. Is not too difficult to code, by using MQL5 Wizard for example. I like MQL5 much more in this respect. It allows you to easily create a multi-currency Expert Advisor or an EA that contains several strategies. Personally I do not use MQL5 Wizard, as I prefer to have maximum control over the program. However, this tool...
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Antonio Morillas (sallirom).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #7
  • Oct 17, 2011 10:30am Oct 17, 2011 10:30am
Only four participants have remained in TOP-10 to the end of the second week of the Championship. They are gery18, Tim, enivid and golders. The former leader Matúš German from Slovakia has moved from the first to the fifth place though his Expert Advisor has not made any gross mistakes. It has lost $3000 for the week and that comprises only 10% from the result fixed at the end of the last Friday. But that was enough to let other Expert Advisors gain leadership.

The Expert Advisor of Tim from Germany has made a profit equal to more than $6000 and has kept its second place. It must be noted that it performed 110 deals for two weeks and we could not find a single loss-making trade. From 31 trades 23 ones were for buy and 8 ones were for sell. Such a trading style certainly attracts attention.

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The full text is available on the Championship website - Second Week Report.


The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #8
  • Oct 18, 2011 8:18am Oct 18, 2011 8:18am
This is the first interview in the "ATC Champions League" project. Roman Zamozhniy (Rich) from Ukraine was the winner of the first Automated Trading Championship in 2006. In addition, he is a regular participant of our Championships - he has not missed a single contest. In this interview, we talked about Roman's first place and tried to figure out what is necessary for successful participation.

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Do you participate with a new Expert Advisor this year or use any parts from previous competitions?
The logic of this EA is completely different from all my previous contesting programs. Now I am preparing an article about my EA, in which I will publish the source code. I hope that for the next ATC I will create something radically different from all the preceding EAs.

You participated in all of our Championships. Is it easier to prepare for the contest with such experience? Can you tell us about how you prepare for the ATC?...
The full text is available on the Championship website - ATC Champions League: Interview with Roman Zamozhniy (Rich).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #9
  • Oct 20, 2011 3:57am Oct 20, 2011 3:57am
In the second week of the competition, the Expert Advisor of Sergey Nikitin (VNIK) trading on two currency pairs EURUSD and EURJPY got featured on the very top drawing away from the rest. Multicurrency Expert Advisors always attract attention in the Championship, especially those that show good results. We talked with Sergey about the role of luck in a trader's life and his way of trading.

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You are a regular participant of the Championship except for one year. Why did you miss ATC 2007? You participated in 2008, but your EA didn't trade. Was there an error in your program?

There was an interesting situation in 2007. My EA was not allowed to participate in the Championship. As far as I understand, the reason was that the final compilation was done on my work PC, while I sent it to the competition from home. In 2008 I didn't understand properly some of the new rules of the Championship, and eventually my system in the...
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Sergey Nikitin (VNIK).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #10
  • Oct 21, 2011 7:17am Oct 21, 2011 7:17am
Ukrainian programmer Andrei Moraru (enivid) is an active participant of the Automated Trading Championship beginning from 2007. Andrei had already come in our view at that time and now we have decided to find out if there occured any changes in his attitude towards trading and selection of trading strategies for the past four years, and also to know about his new Expert Advisor.

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Why have you decided to share your Expert Advisor? Are you waiting for some comments and recommendations from your colleagues? Or may be you have some other reasons?

The strategy is quite good and worth sharing, I think. I usually share my MQL4/5 works that I consider worthy. It helps to improve them considerably. And I think that I must give something back, in case I use somebody else's work.

Do you think your Expert Advisor can be......
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Andrei Moraru (enivid).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #11
  • Oct 24, 2011 10:28am Oct 24, 2011 10:28am
The third week of the Championship became notable for the flat movement of the EURUSD pair which is the most popular among the participating Expert Advisors. A unique situation has come into being eventually - the difference between equity sizes of the first and the last participant in TOP-10 comprises only $4000! It is the first time in history of the Automated Trading Championship that we have such a small range of results among the first ten participants.

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The third week of the Championship is over. It turned out to be quite ruthless towards those who had not fixed their profits in time. Only one participant was standing aside from all these dramatic events and waiting for better time - that is the Expert Advisor of tornhill from Germany. The last time it showed activity on October 17, i.e. a week ago. His Expert Advisor is called Every Breath but probably it is now the time to breathe, not to trade. And his position seems to be wise enough so far.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Third Week Report.

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #12
  • Oct 27, 2011 3:27am Oct 27, 2011 3:27am
What is common between skydiving, Futures, Hawaii, translations and spies? We didn't know it until we've managed to communicate with disqualified participant Atsushi Yamanaka (alohafx). His has a creed "Life is Good!", and one can hardly doubt that. It was interesting to know that distances between the continents are not an obstacle for communication among our Championship's participants.

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You have created your EA in MQL5 Wizard. What do you think about it?

Fantastic toy! Perfect for the people like me who wants to make automatic trading robot but not very good at writing the code. The coding skill and strategy idea is totally different story. I believe there are lots of people who knows trading but not coding.

I want anyone to use my EA (if it works) as a MQL5 Wizard template to prepare for the next Championship.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Atsushi Yamanaka (alohafx).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #13
  • Oct 28, 2011 3:40am Oct 28, 2011 3:40am
Interview with Olexander Topchylo (Better) is the second publication within the "ATC Champions League" project. Having won the Automated Trading Championship 2007, this professional trader caught the attention of investors. Olexander says that his first place in the ATC 2007 is one of the major events of his trading experience. However, later on this popularity helped him discover the biggest disappointment - it is so easy to lose investors after the first drawdown on an investor account.

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Your winning Expert Advisor was based on a neural network. You said that the neural network was developed in C++, and then translated into MQL4. Now we are launching an open source project for creating a neuronet engine in MQL5, which is designed to help traders to create a network in a few clicks and paste it into the Expert Advisor code. Would you like to participate in this project?

Yes, I've read this forum topic. It's a very interesting project! Although now everyone can find neural networks in existing freeware-libraries, but there is one peculiarity. Neural networks require huge computational resources, and by coding such a network in pure MQL5 you can use the cloud computing service, which was recently launched on the MetaTrader 5 platform.

I won't be able to participate in the project, since I have no time. Also, I'll hardly use the results of this project, since I create neural networks for specific tasks. But for beginners this will be a very useful resource.

The full text is available on the Championship website - ATC Champions League: Interview with Olexander Topchylo (Better).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #14
  • Oct 30, 2011 5:03am Oct 30, 2011 5:03am
A student from Germany Tim Fass (Tim) is participating in the Automated Trading Championship for the first time. Nevertheless, his Expert Advisor The_Wild_13 already got featured at the very top of the Championship rating and seems to be holding his position in the top ten. Tim told us about his Expert Advisor, his faith in the success of simple strategies and his wildest dreams.

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Your strategy attracted attention for its slow but stable increase in the balance. Was it intentionally optimized so? Does its prototype that you use in real trading show the same smooth increase?
Yes it generally shows the same smooth increase. I wanted a program that is not acting too chaotic, because it is much easier to tell if it is effective or needs a new optimization. That is why I prefer a program with small but reliable profit. It is achieved by the large stop loss while placing the order.
The resulting problems are massive...
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Tim Fass (Tim).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #15
  • Oct 31, 2011 10:19am Oct 31, 2011 10:19am
The last week of October has not promised any suprises. Our TOP-10 was changing insignificantly. The leadership was passing periodically from one participant to another and it was impossible to predict a Friday leader. But something unbelievable has happened on Thursday - the Expert Advisor of Xupypr has suddenly turned on its acceleration to maximum and soared heavenward like a rocket with 15 EURUSD lots on board! For the first time in the Automated Trading Championship history such a huge profit has been fixed.

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To better understand the scale of this event we must recall that the Expert Advisor of the previous Championship winner Boris Odintsov (bobsley) finished with $77 102 on its account. Nevertheless, 2 months of the competition are still ahead of us. There is enough time to leave all the pursuers trailing far behind. However, we know the cases when all the advantage gained in the beginning was eventually lost. Of course, we could not help asking the leader of the fourth week several questions.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Fourth Week Report.

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #16
  • Nov 4, 2011 2:41am Nov 4, 2011 2:41am
Appearance of the Expert Advisor cs2011 by Igor Korepin (Xupypr) at the very top of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 was really impressive - its balance was almost twice that of the EA featured on the second place. However, despite such a sound breakaway, the Expert Advisor could not stay long on the first line. Igor frankly said that he relied much on a lucky start of his trading robot in the competition. We'll see if luck helps this simple EA to take the lead in the ATC 2011 race again.

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Two days ago your EA seemed to be resting at an unattainable height. And suddenly there was one more rise - the Expert Advisor by ias. The MetaTrader 5 Tester now supports multicurrency strategies. Have you ever tried to create programs trading multiple currencies?

Yes, once I tried to create a multicurrency robot, but it was very simple. For a full-fledged multicurrency EA you need a well-thought strategy. In my understanding, it must simultaneously take into account the movements of several instruments. Currency indexes are quite...
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Igor Korepin (Xupypr).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #17
  • Nov 6, 2011 10:19am Nov 6, 2011 10:19am
The first month of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 is over. 395 Expert Advisors in total were allowed to participate in the competition this year. That is 81 more that the last year Championship. But not all of them have been considered in our report, as 7 participants were disqualified during the first two weeks. Therefore, 388 Expert Advisors are still in action as of October 31. The current Championship is rich in surprises and it is time to examine this year's first statistical values.

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Like during the last year's Championship, EURUSD suffered a downfall at the beginning but eventually moved upwards steadily by the end of the first week. But the Expert Advisors that started their trading activity in 2010 a bit later were mostly profitable ones, while this year most of such Expert Advisors are losing ones. Can this fact mean that the Exeprt Advisors expected growth of euro the last year, while now they expect its downfall? We can't say that for sure but, nevertheless, we decided to reveal this curious fact in our report.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Statistical Report #1.

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #18
  • Nov 8, 2011 4:33am Nov 8, 2011 4:33am
We have not expected any new sensations after the incredible takeoff of the Expert Advisor of Igor Korepin (Xupypr). It seemed that the gap between Xupypr and his closest pursuer (the Expert Advisor of anuta) comprising $35 000 is big enough to provide the former with a safety net at least for a week or even a month. But this assumption has turned out to be completely wrong and the first week of November has shown us that you can never be too sure both about the Championship and Forex trading.

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The main event of the fifth week is even more incredible takeoff of the multi-currency Expert Advisor of ias from Russia. Not only has it been able to jump past Xupypr's level but it has also managed to accelerate up to the second "cosmic" speed and reached $100 000. As it was noted by the Championship audience, this "twelve-stage rocket" is able to cope with any height and no one can say what its limits are.

The full text is available on the Championship website - Fifth Week Report.

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #19
  • Nov 8, 2011 11:36pm Nov 8, 2011 11:36pm
The Expert Advisor of Ilnur Khasanov (aharata) is holding its place in our TOP-10 chart of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 participants from the third week already, though Ilnur's acquaintance with Forex has started only a year ago. The idea that forms the basis of the Expert Advisor is simple but the trading robot contains self-optimization elements. Perhaps, that is the key to its survival? Besides, the author had to replace the Expert Advisor planned to be submitted for the Championship...

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Nevertheless, your Expert Advisor have had a very small amount of deals for 4 weeks. What were the results during the automatic verifications? Did your Expert Advisor have any problems passing them?
Yes, not many deals... The automatic verifications were passed successfully, I had to recompile and download the robot because of the build. I don't think the Expert Advisor has huge potential but still... I'm very glad that I stay in the TOP-10 for the second week already.
The full text is available on the Championship website - Interview with Ilnur Khasanov (aharata).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
  • #20
  • Nov 10, 2011 6:04am Nov 10, 2011 6:04am
This is the third interview in the "ATC Champions League" project. The final balance of the winner of the Automated Trading Championship 2008 Kiril Kartunov (Liliput) was a record in the history of the competition - after the contest trading was stopped, it was equal to $169,585. The 2008 main prize satisfied the ambition of this trader, and he decided to quit Forex. This year he is back to try his luck once again with an absolutely new strategy.
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What experience does participation in the Championship give? What were the bonuses from your first place in the ATC 2008 for you?
Participation in the Championship gives the programmer the advantage to compete with other programmers of MQL tools. It is a measure of the current status and also an important test period for the long coding work. My first place in 2008 gave bonuses and negatives at the same time. To be first makes you popular in the MQL community. But it is also...
The full text is available on the Championship website - ATC Champions League: Interview with Kiril Kartunov (Liliput).

The Sponsors of the Automated Trading Championship 2011 are MIG Bank, Go Markets and Vantage FX. The Media Sponsor of the Championship is Forex-TSD.
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