In the second of our series of interviews with senior figures from the Forex industry, I spoke earlier today with Marc Prosser, Chief Marketing Officer of Forex Capital Markets. I started off asking the question on everyone's lips these days about the new "hedging" ban. We then talked about the relative merits of "straight through processing" versus "dealing desk" business models, and then briefly touched on the regulatory aspects of transatlantic transfers of client cash.
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Here at the Trading Gurus we've been testing our three example MetaTrader expert advisors with another month's worth of data. Things are still looking good for our dumber than dumb forex robots!
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As you know, I was idly perusing the Boston Technologies website the other day when I happened across their very own MetaTrader robot, which seems to have developed an unfortunate habit of losing money rather than making it hand over fist.
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I've just put the phone down after a long conversation with George Tchetvertakov, head of market research at Alpari UK. We started off talking about the new NFA "hedging" regulations and their effects on the retail foreign exchange business. Eventually we moved on to discuss some other topics, including using hedging as a means of reducing risk, and George's opinions about markets in general.
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I telephoned FXCM again about my latest problem with an expert advisor that was unable to place any orders. I eventually managed to speak to a very helpful lady with an American accent who is a MetaTrader specialist in their sales department. She'd obviously been asked this question before, and here is my understanding of her explanation.
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The FXCM Limited MetaTrader banner promises:
No Dealing Desk Execution
Hedging Capabilities through FSA Regulated Entity
Spreads as Low as 1 Pip EUR/USD
Accept ALL MT4 Expert Advisors
The Trading Gurus are based in South West England, so we're not too unhappy about the idea of opening a live account with an FSA regulated forex broker based in the UK. Those bullet points sound exactly like the sort of brokerage account we've been waiting for, so I opened a demo account with FXCM UK, and fired up one of our Expert Advisors.
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As we suggested it seems as though some forex brokers have complained to the NFA that they cannot implement the programming changes necessary in time for the original deadline of May 15th for the now notorious compliance rule 2-43(b). In their new notice I-09-12 the NFA say that:
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US based forex brokers that offer the MetaTrader platform will have some work to do to comply with the latest regulations from the National Futures Association, which will be introduced on May 15th. So will the developers and users of a lot of forex "robots".
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Yesterday I received an email from Forex MegaDroid support. It seems as though I'm not the only one having some trouble getting profitable backtest results. Here is an extract:
Due to the many variations in broker-end settings (server time offset, trading times, differences in pricing and spread) coupled with the fact that some brokers implement Daylight Saving in actual trading but do not always apply it to their back-test data, users have experienced a lot of confusion and frustration while attempting to produce reasonable back-tests.
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