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19 Sep, 2008

My Automated Trading Championships entry for 2008

Posted by: Milton In: Automation| Market Neutral

If you’ve read some of my recent posts you’ll know that I’ve been rushing to get an entry in to the ATC 2008.

Well, the time has almost come and I’ve decided to enter my multi currency EA which has been around for a little while now, it isn’t perfect (far from it) and needs to be fully developed, however, I’m going to run it as a test to see how it goes running live for a reasonable amount of time (I never leave my computers on 24/5).

My limited testing shows that it should make good money if it can close positions quickly, possibly some profit if it can close them within a day or so, and a loss if it holds them open for too long. It would also be better if I could have much finer control over lot sizes (0.1 standard lots is not fine enough when you’re hedging).

2 Responses to "My Automated Trading Championships entry for 2008"

1 | ck

September 19th, 2008 at 10:59 am

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hi mate!

good to hear that you have a submission this year.

i can remember clearly that your EA was leading the pact in #1 position for a while in last year’s competition. can’t find it in your other blog anymore, but found this snapshot of “Milton”-history at :
http://web.archive.org/web/20071105084347/http://www.projectsomewhere.com/2007/10/30/how-long-can-it-last/

can’t wait to see how this year goes for you.

all the best mate!

ck :O)
from sunny Singapore

2 | Milton

September 19th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

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Hi Ck,

I doubt I’ll be in the lead this year (quite a bit more conservative), I’m more looking at it as testing a strategy, find out what needs fixing, fix it and then maybe put it to work :)

Are you entering anything? or are you strictly evaluating only?

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