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A Month of Registration Is Behind Us
A month has already passed since the registration start. During this period 1120 persons have submitted their application for participation. Last year about 600 applications were received for the same period, in 2006 there were about 300 applications. Stanislav Starikov, the representative of MetaQuotes Software Corp. in the Championship Jury, supposes this year there will be about a thousand of persons willing to struggle for the title of the Best Expert Advisor Developer. 82 people out of 1120 have already submitted their programs. More than half of applicants have filled in their personal details. Please note that filling in personal details is an obligatory condition for the successful completion of Registration. Among applicants there is a winner of the Automated Trading Championship 2006 Roman Zamozhniy, known as Rich. He explained his winning in 2006 as a good luck. And in the previous year Championship his luck was out – Roman was disqualified. Perhaps this year Fortune will favor him. Roman Zamozhniy has filled in his personal details and now he has only to submit his Expert Advisor. The winner of the last year Championship Alexander Topchylo, whose nickname is Better, has also applied for participation. In the ATC 2006 his EA was unlucky. After that Alexander learned his lesson and created a really amazing Expert Advisor and having reached a huge equity gained the lead in the Championship of 2007. Alexander not only creates efficient Expert Advisors, but also skillfully uses analytical information and creates his own useful reports. Currently Alexander has specified all the necessary personal details and, hopefully, will send his Expert Advisor soon. About a month and a half is left till the registration end. It is not a long period. Do not forget that the Registration for participation in the ATC 2008 will end on the 19th of September 2008. All persons willing to participate in the contest must register and submit their Expert Advisor before the registration is out. Created: 2008.08.01 Author: MetaQuotes
I have a couple of questions on the rules.
1. Under the 5 lot limit rule you also state that the increments can only be .1 lot. does this mean that the lot sizes are limited to .1 integers verses .14 lots for instance or does this mean that if my EA uses multiple orders you can only have .1 increments for instance .1 lot then .2 lots then .3 lots? Can I submit more than one EA if they are entirely different strategies? There was an article stating that the EA had to optimize 8 months in less than 5 minutes. What are these optimization requirements? Can you use any price mode ie. open price, control points or every tick? Do I need to provide optimization instructions? Or, do I just limit the inputs to those that can be optimized under this restriction? What the Timezone of Championship Server? Thanks. 2008.08.09 23:10
bookrey2000 wrote:
when the ea will be check?? We will start EAs Checking after a few days. 2008.08.05 11:55
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I have a couple of questions on the rules.
1. Under the 5 lot limit rule you also state that the increments can only be .1 lot. does this mean that the lot sizes are limited to .1 integers verses .14 lots for instance or does this mean that if my EA uses multiple orders you can only have .1 increments for instance .1 lot then .2 lots then .3 lots?
Can I submit more than one EA if they are entirely different strategies?
There was an article stating that the EA had to optimize 8 months in less than 5 minutes. What are these optimization requirements? Can you use any price mode ie. open price, control points or every tick?
Do I need to provide optimization instructions? Or, do I just limit the inputs to those that can be optimized under this restriction?
In reply to QBtrader.... Increment of one lots what does it means? the answer is simple; all increment shall be in the multiple of 0.1. for example these lots are not valid 0.23, 1.24, 4.56, 3.45 and so forth; the lots must contain zero as the third digit. valid lots are 0.20, 1.20, 4.50, 3.50 the maximum being 5 lots by three.
Question on optimization... from my view point it is not optimization that will be used to appraise the 5 min limit for EAs. the strategy tester (with the Optimization box unchecked the Use date and Visual mode boxes checked)running your EA at maximum speed from Jan-Aug, 2008, is what is being used. some EAs coding are voluminous and contains lots of loops and parameter validation. this tends to use a lot of computer memory resources and slow down the the processing speed. an easy coded EA should run in less than a min; mine passed the test in 27 seconds for the eight months period. so what you should do is run your EA with the strategy tester at maximum speed - if it runs for more than 5mins then you need to lessen your coding and make it simpler. my idea of hard coded EAs that slows down computer speed, are ones taking up two or more pages of coding... one page should be okay...
only one EA is allowed per participant. read the championship rule...