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Posts Tagged ‘automated

30 Oct, 2008

Evaluating OpenQuant

Posted by: Milton In: Automation

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Metatrader. I love the fact that it’s free and that it will run on Linux (using Wine), however that is about the extent of my love for it. My list of dislikes about it are many, to summarise: I think from a technological perspective that [...]

02 Oct, 2008

Not ideal

Posted by: Milton In: Automation

I’m disappointed. My EA in the Automated Trading Championships appears to not be functioning… however the copy I’m running locally is working well without any issues.
No trades have been executed since the beginning couple of seconds of the championships and I can’t see any expert advisor logging either to give a hint as to what [...]

25 Sep, 2008

Sweet, I’m entered

Posted by: Milton In: Automation

Just a follow-up to my last post in which I was worried that I may not get accepted into the Automated Trading Championships, well I just received an email saying that I’ve been accepted!
Now to see how my EA actually performs

22 Sep, 2008

I’m worried

Posted by: Milton In: Automation| Market Neutral

I’m worried that my EA won’t be approved for this years Automated Trading Championships.
I was told that multi currency EA’s would be manually approved after registration closed. After registration closed I received an email stating that my EA had errors (zero division error). I sent them an email telling them the only reason this would [...]

I’m currently rushing to get an EA (Expert Advisor) finished for this years automated trading championships.
In my live trading I’m using/testing a strategy which appears to be producing very nice profits. I was hoping to enter an EA based around it, however it appears the less flexible lot sizing makes it substantially less profitable than [...]


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Forex Howto is a site that I setup some years ago, I neglected it for a couple of years and now it's back online.

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