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Years ago when I first got started with trading I did what everyone does which is experiment with lots of indicators, sometimes they give what appear to be good signals, most of the time they’re not really anything to write home about.
I think I may have found a use for them, by using an overbought/oversold [...]

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 [...]

Some years back I did some research into Genetic Programming and using it for automated trading. Needless to say it didn’t get the results I was looking for so I gave up relatively quickly. Since then I’ve looked at many other methods of automated trading and now I’m back to Genetic Programming. I’ve learnt more [...]

OK, so you think you’ve got a great strategy and it works great, you’re raking in the cash and life is looking up. Then something big happens and you go into a big drawdown waiting for the mean reversion.
That’s what happened yesterday/last night for me, the aussie dollar falling like a rock was that something [...]

Ck has had a big life direction change, and I find it comforting to see others seeing things in somewhat the same way that I do, particularly somebody who has had a quite a bit of exposure to expert advisors. Specifically regarding constant optimisation of an expert advisor.
My view on automated trading is that it [...]

Last year in the Automated Trading Championships I ran a long term though risky EA I threw together very quickly just before the championships started, that EA was actually half decent (I was leading for a couple of weeks). I remember many people complaining about their EA’s being unable to open or close positions which [...]

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

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 [...]