It took me so much time to build and test my EA. I used 6 months data, the only problem is that "make at least 5 conscious trades within the first 8 backtesting months (2008.01.01-2008.08.01)" on that particular start day EA wouldn´t work.

So i guess i was excluded because it didn´t made 5 councious trades. Well i though.. this is ok because it will make trades during the contest.. But i was simple excluded and didn´t even got an email saying i should change my ea or i would be excluded. If i got that mail or message, i would have changed it..

It´s just too frustrating beeing out of this competition after so much work..

Now i know why so may developers are putted away, they simple aren´t warned and they think everything is ok with their EA.

A simple email would solve that..

yes my EA dos not checked from moderator !!!!!!!!!

Hi Dears,

Is there anyone that his/her expert is not be checked ?

Thanks and Regards,
Benyamin.

From the rules: "make at least 5 conscious trades within the first 8 backtesting months (2008.01.01-2008.08.01)"

well... in fact there are only 7 months there... :P:P

Thanks codersguru, for your comments. I respect your work and your opinion on this. Again, best of luck, I hope you win.

I agree with you in the point that the backtesting can not say if the EA scalping or not.

I think the forward test and/or the champ itself can say if the EA scalping or not.

I hope MetaQuotes consider your EA as a qualified one. I'm sure they (MetaQuotes) have a good intention to all the us because our intention too is to make MetaTrader the best forex trading platform.

Thanks again SnappyNap.

In the spirit of being a good sport and being "honest with ourselves here" I don't really want to argue about this. I think the rules should be intrepreted by the officials, in the spirit of the rule, it is to eliminate scalping programs like the one submitted last year by winwin. But my EA IS NOT A SCALPER!!! It uses a protection strategy of a stop loss or take profit, only after the position has moved any direction by more than 30 pips. This strategy is allowed by all the brokers I forward tested with...FXDD, IBFX, and Alpari.

You said in your last post "what i believe that they mean ..."

I think for the developers who were disqualified and the community, an official statement should be made on the interpretation of the rules. I understand that ultimately, MetaQuotes reserves the right "to disqualify him/her showing the cause".

I accept that I submitted at the last minute and that my expert had an error, therefore I am disqulaified.

Hi you all,

Since none of the organizers, moderators, or members of the jury bother to respond to my posts whether on the forum, on the comment section of my profile or on the news section of the championship.

I came up with this crazy idea that this whole thing could just be a scam to get your EA and use them for their own.

Yes, I have been disqualified because of rules 2.5 & 2.6 and I am bitter because I work so hard for it.

These rules say explicitly:

- The Participant can be registered only once within the Championship. I did just that, only once.

- Registration of your friends or relatives instead of you will result in your disqualification. I did not registered my friend or relative instead of me.

- If any registered persons display their ignorance of trading, they will be disqualified. I have been trading with different platforms in demo and in live for over 2 years

- The attempts of multiple registrations or use of anonymous proxies will result in unambiguous disqualification of the Participant. As I said before, I registered only once.

Renat told me: "Someone used account 'rayve' and 'pasmat' from one computer." So what? This does not break the rules. It does not say anywhere that you cannot logon to your account from your friend computer. Mind you it should be easy for them to say what happen when I logon (no updates, just a look at my account and only once, it probably lasted no more than 5 minutes).

My friend registered his EA days or weeks after me and he registered for himself not instead of me.

By the way, yes, I read the rule 2.8: Organizers reserve the right to refuse registration to a Participant without showing the cause and to disqualify him/her showing the cause.

In one of my last post, I have even agreed to renounce to the price. I just ask that my EA be run on the Metaquote server during the championship so I can see it competing against the others. Once again no answers.

I suggest next year you just set this simple rule: Participants will be qualified for the Championship if we, Organizers, feel like it.

Best regards

Pascal

"If the Expert Advisor's behavior during preliminary testing essentially differs from that during the Championship"...quoted from rule

"it plainly implies that the EA participates in the event and then behaves differently than it did during testing"... your quote

lets be honest with ourselves here. there is no place the organizers says EA that fails the scalping test will be admitted to the champ until its superlative scalping behavior is confirmed b/4 it is removed. what i believe that they mean is that all EA that pass the 8months back test and if for some reasons during the champ it now made over 25% scalping trade it will be disqualified. so assuming your EA made only 20% scalping trade during back test and it now increases to 26% or more during the champ it will be disqualified ...

I appreciate your comments SnappyNap, however, your math is all wrong!

But you are right on a few things...

1. NO ONE can predict how an EA will behave in certain market conditions in the future!
2. I submitted my EA late like many others... my over confidence as a programmer burns me again!
3. I will try again next year, because I like many others believe in this platform and the idea of automated trading. Not to win the prize (although it would be nice) but to prove I can write a successful EA. This championship sets that standard and to compete among the worlds best mql4 programmers is an honor!

However you make my case when it comes to interpreting the rules; "If the Expert Advisor's behavior during preliminary testing essentially differs from that during the Championship", it plainly implies that the EA participates in the event and then behaves differently than it did during testing.

Again, thanks for your comments, and good luck in the contest!