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The Equipment for the Automated Trading Championship 2006
The blade server PowerEdge 1855 at the cost of US$35 000 has been delivered to the central office of the MetaQuotes Software Corp. today. The server was ordered at the Dell Computer Corporation (USA). It took about one and a half month for it to get to its place here, in Kazan (Russia). Servers of this type are used to solve many complicated, computation-intensive tasks. The Automated Trading Championship 2006 is one of such tasks, as well. PowerEdge 1855 is a set of 10 servers in one package and should be fixed in a mounting block. A MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal with the Participants' expert advisors will be launched on each of them. All terminals will be connected to the MetaQuotes Software Corp. server via a separate data center and compete with others for prizes of the Championship within 3 months.
The blades will operate continuously until the Automated Trading Championship 2006 ends. This server allows providing the same conditions for all Participants - each expert advisor will work during the entire Championship. Moreover, this allows everybody to watch the trading of each expert in the online mode using investor's passwords. To provide stability, the server will operate via an uninterruptible power supply APC Smart-UPS RT 8000VA with a supplementary battery package. By estimate, this power must be sufficient to provide stable operation of servers within an hour. Internet connection is provided using two independent lines: a fiber-optic line and an ADSL. If troubles occur in one of them, the other will connect automatically. After the server is mounted, the MetaQuotes Software Corp. professionals will start to test the equipment. The test results will be published later. Created: 2006.09.21 Author: MetaQuotes
Much real users work together on the same trade server. And have no problem because they
have different logins. Login is major attribute, magic number is minor attribute
and used within ONE login
2006.09.23 14:51
stringo wrote: trohoang, i've experimented on the simple P4 with EAs falled in the endless loop without any delaying. No problem, system works, client terminals work without affects Hi Stringo, thanks for your reply. I have had 2 EAs running on the same computer. One has a stoploss to breakeven when 20pips in profit and the other EA with stoploss to breakeven when 50pips in profit. During live testing, I notice both EAs where moving its stoploss to break even when 20pips in profit. I have to modify the magic number such that the EAs do not interfere with each others. I am pretty sure that this was a minor problem and required a minor fix but it could be catastrophic if one of the participants does not address his magic number order properly. This is just a minor example but isolation can be an issue on a bigger scale during the contest. trohoang, i've experimented on the simple P4 with EAs falled in the endless loop
without any delaying. No problem, system works, client terminals work without affects
2006.09.22 12:38
Metaquotes will easily recover the cost of the server investment by using the profitable
EA. Just joking.
2006.09.22 07:05
I am happy to see that Metaquotes Software has made such investment on the championship.
One of my main concern is the possibilitiy of the EAs interference with each
other. I have ran across this issue before on my computer and it required
me to fix the problem within the coding. Being that each participant is coming
from different background and there is no standardization of coding, a command issued
by one EA may affect the intend of another EA. This is because the EAs are running
on the same computer with minimal isolation.
Sweet machine! Good to hear that a UPS (huge 8000VA!) and backup internet
lines for the championship will be used. I can't wait till championship starts!
I am wondering how to run multiple terminals on one server. If it's not doable,
does it mean you would have to buy 50 sets for 500 participants? The terminal actually
doesn't take a lot of resources, which runs fine on my PIII450, just hope there
would be a linux version.
Great work! Hope you the best luck!
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Thanks, it really helps clear things up for me. I was concern that someone with too much time on their hands may write an EA that would go through different combination of magic numbers and closing everyone else trades or something more malicious than that. I guess the individual login will provide isolation among the EAs.