Today, on the 1st of October 2008, the Automated Trading Championship 2008 has started! All preparatory stages are behind us. Registration and check of Expert Advisors are over. 705 Expert Advisors are admitted to the Championship.

Like in previous-year Championships, the majority of Participants are from Russia and Ukraine. They constitute 30.1% and 9.1% correspondingly. This year more developers from China participate in the contest as compared to the previous Championship. In 2007 China was only the seventh in the number of Participants, while now it is right after Russia and Ukraine making up 6.2% of the total number of Participants. Developers from Indonesia are in the fourth place again – they are 5.5% of all Participants.

For the Championship conduction powerful servers are leased. 47 MetaTrader 4 terminals with Expert Advisors run on each server. On the main page of the Championship website we publish graphs of 10 Participants that are most profitable at the moment. Detailed results and reports of each Participant can be viewed in the “Participants” section. Anyone who is registered on the Championship website can leave comments to articles and support this or that Participant.

“We hope this year the Championship will be as interesting and exciting as previous ones. Due to stricter rules, Expert Advisors that showed the best results and made no errors during testing are admitted to the contest. Developers worked hard, and now what is left for us to do is just observe the competition. I wish good luck to all Participants”, Renat Fatkhullin, CEO of MetaQuotes Software Corp., said.

We thank Forex Capital Markets LLC (FXCM), Interbank FX LLC, FXDD and TRADERS’ journal for their help in the organization of the Automated Trading Championship 2008.