| I am 33 years old and have a degree in economics. I | | | | changing forex market, so for the last year I have |
| became interested in trading the foreign exchange | | | | been creating systems based on that approach. |
| market eight years ago and I've been trading forex | | | | LMD-Multicurrency is one of those. |
| live for more than six years now. | | | | When I first saw the Forex Robot World Cup |
| I am primarily a discretionary trader and most of the | | | | advertisement around October, I decided to |
| time I trade with discretionary systems based on | | | | participate because the prizes are really good and I |
| chart patterns. I do not use any indicators or | | | | knew if I won it would help my financial situation. |
| standard analytical tools. | | | | Now I am happy because I am among winners. The |
| In my trading I like to keep things as simple as | | | | EA is an automated system based on the chart |
| possible because my six years of live trading showed | | | | pattern recognition algorithm and it showed good |
| me that this is the best approach. I became | | | | results. I decided to do some improvements and |
| interested in automated trading at the end of 2006 | | | | modifications, make it multi-currency and send it to |
| when I saw the Automated Trading Championship | | | | the Forex Robot World Cup. |
| organized by Metaqoutes. | | | | It has a built-in knowledge acquired through many |
| I decided to learn MQL programming and from that | | | | years of live trading, creating and testing various |
| day since, I have written and tested many | | | | trading systems. Another reason is it's ability to use a |
| automated trading systems. Some were more | | | | risky money management strategy because the EA |
| successful than others in live trading. | | | | trades multiple currency pairs, so we do not have all |
| One of my successful EAs won fourth place at the | | | | our eggs in one basket. |
| Metaquotes Automated Trading Championship in | | | | I think that this risk diversification is the main reason |
| 2007. In the beginning I started to create the | | | | I am among winners. I would like to thank the |
| automated trading systems based on indicators and | | | | contest organizers for making this competition |
| standard analytical tools, but I learned that they don't | | | | possible. It was a really great contest and it is even |
| have prospects, they're not suitable for constantly | | | | greater for me because I am among winners. I would |
| changing market conditions. I realized that the most | | | | also like to congratulate all the winners and |
| resilient systems are those based on chart patterns | | | | participants. |
| because they respond well to the constantly | | | | |