Jury Session Record of the 1st of December 2008

This time Jury members discussed not only Participants, but also some conditions of the Championship. Change of the spread was the subject of discussion. As the market conditions changed, we had to change spread values for some currency pairs. This is necessary to provide the Participants of the Championship with trading conditions. The table below shows new spread values:

Symbol Spread New Spread
USDCHF44
GBPUSD33
EURUSD22
USDJPY33
USDCAD44
AUDUSD33
EURGBP23
EURAUD1012
EURCHF33
EURJPY34
GBPJPY710
GBPCHF710

One more question discussed on the Jury session concerned contesting Expert Advisors. Still a large number of Expert Advisors start to operate with errors. One of errors is standard: attempts to open a trade having not enough money for such operations. This error was revealed in the operation of Expert Advisors of the following Participants: 600234, 600040, 600209, 600080, 600478, 600205, 600274, 600223, 600051, 600142, 600387, 600431, 600289, 600615, 600228, 600545, 600055, 600440, 600665, 600017, 600024.

One more common error is an incorrect lot size. EAs of Participants 600393 and 600292 tried to open positions with the zero lot size.

An unusual error was detected in the Expert Advisor 600592 - error 130 - incorrect stop size.

Each Jury member voted about all these cases:

Voting:


Renat Fatkhullin:
Agreed
Stanislav Starikov:Agreed
Darren Merwitz:Agreed
Andy Andersen: Agreed
Jeffrey Baskin:Abstained
Thomas Bopp:Agreed












The Jury decided to change spreads and disqualify the above Participants by the majority of votes.

Created: 2008.12.01  Author: MetaQuotes Software Corp.
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strelec and prizmal are using basically the same EA but on different timeframe; disqualifying one or the other for what ever reason is fair to other contestant. the best decision yet by the juries..
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2008.12.02 18:43
Liliput wrote:
This is my comment, this change is close to real conditions also makes ATC08 very interesting now :-)

The limitation of 3 orders and 5 lots is very close to real conditions also ;)

p.s. and negative equity is absolutely real :D

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2008.12.01 18:40

Rules are rules for everyone jlbi...there ware so many EAs disqualified because of error masgs. Changing the spread is allowed, the error is in the code that it uses fixed levels not those provided by MarketInfo()

It is also writen here:

According to the Championship Rules, each competing Expert Advisor must properly consider symbol settings without rigidly specified parameters. Spreads and minimum deviations from the market prices can dynamically change dependent on the market conditions. While volatility is high or the news are arriving, there can occur problems with trade execution or order modification.


This is my comment, this change is close to real conditions also makes ATC08 very interesting now :-)
1
2008.12.01 18:28

wow that is impressive.

strelec disqualified for 1 stop in the wrong place and new rules in order to get PrizmaL and abeiks out of the top and put instead Gorez and Cronex.

Very good job but I am not sure that will reach your claimed goal of popularizing MT4 platform...

2008.12.01 17:42