Today is the 1st of October, the day when the Automated Trading Championship 2007 starts. Registration and checks of Participants are finished. 603 Participants are admitted to the Championship.

The majority of Participants are, like last year, from Russia and Ukraine. They are followed by developers from the USA who made about 7% of all Participants. The developers from China who were the fourth in amount last year take the 7th place this time. The most surprising are Expert Advisors’ writers from Iran: they take the 10th place. Well, all above is just boring statistics. We will see in 3 months the residents of which countries win this time.

Like a year before, the Championship website has significantly changed with its beginning. All news of the Championship are immediately published there. The first page of the website always contains the TOP 10 developers' positions on charts. Details of other Participants can be found in the corresponding section.

"Expert Advisors’ writers have done enormous work within the last 9 months. Nothing depends on them now, they can just witness the successes of their brainchildren. I want to thank all Participants for the work they have done and wish everybody much success at the Automated Trading Championship 2007", said Renat Fatkhullin, CEO of MetaQuotes Software Corp.

MetaQuotes Software Corp. deeply appreciates the Championship Sponsors: ODL Securities Limited, Alpari (UK) Limited, FXDD and TRADERS' Magazine.