Forex MegaDroid
The recent introduction by Alpari UK of "interbank spreads" on their MetaTrader 4 demo accounts has given us the perfect opportunity to demonstrate one of the potential problems you might encounter using the MetaTrader 4 strategy tester to evaluate a forex trading strategy you have developed for yourself, or even bought off a virtual shelf. Our regular readers will know that we have performed numerous live tests and backtests on the Forex MegaDroid "robot". Today is a Saturday, so I had a few minutes spare to run yet another backtest on the Droid. I started the simulation on March 30th 2009, the date the Forex MegaDroid team launched their creation amid great fanfare, and finished it yesterday evening. Here's what the Alpari UK MetaTrader 4 demo strategy tester showed me:
Tags: Alpari, Backtesting, Forex MegaDroid, MetaTrader
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We've finally received the email from the Forex MegaDroid team that we've been waiting for since July 5th. Albert and John finally announced in an email to their customers on September 20th that:
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In our previous live test results for June and July the Forex MegaDroid MetaTrader 4 expert advisor did at least manage to make a profit. Sadly the "robot" seems to have lost it's way over the summer holiday season. In our live account at Alpari UK it lost money. In percentage terms it lost a lot of money!
Tags: Alpari, Forex MegaDroid, Forex Trading Systems, FXDD, Live Test, MetaTrader, Robots, VPS
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The Forex MegaDroid team seemed to think that the NFA's new FIFO regulations were going to cause their creation some problems. On July 5th they sent an email to their customers promising that:
Tags: Alpari, Backtesting, Forex MegaDroid, Forex Trading Systems, IBFX, Robots
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The headlines become more and more apocalyptic. Zero hour is almost upon us, and the Forex MegaDroid team have just sounded the loudest alarm call so far in the hype war over the new NFA FIFO regulations, which finally come into force this weekend. If you recall earlier this month Albert and John promised their long suffering customers that:
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We've just added a new instalment to our course on how to build your very own forex trading system. This one explains a new variation on an old boiler room trick that can be used by scammers to show unrealistically profitable test results for MetaTrader robots.
Tags: Backtesting, Forex Course, Forex MegaDroid, MetaTrader, Robots, Scams
Woe is me! It looks like I made a big mistake earlier today when I foolishly tried to save some money by buying FapTurbo Evolution using my own ClickBank hoplink. I really wish I'd read all those emails from the Forex MegaDroid team properly. I got another email from Albert and John this afternoon, and I did read it carefully. I thought it was going to be a reply to my support ticket about memory apparently leaking from their Droid, but I was mistaken.
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At the last count I had received 28 emails over the last few days advising me that "FapTurbo Evolution is LIVE!" and such like. Five of them were from the Forex MegaDroid team. I was a bit confused because I was sure that I got a few emails 2 or 3 weeks ago telling me about a robot called FapTurbo Swiss, which sounded a lot like this new one. Clearing my thoughts, I followed one of the plethora of links to the FapTurbo Evolution sales page, which told me at the top that:
Tags: Dukascopy, FapTurbo, Forex MegaDroid, MetaTrader, VPS
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Our adventures in MetaTrader land with the Forex MegaDroid took a sinister turn last night. The robot didn't make any trades but it wasn't completely idle. First it lost its memory, then it killed another robot. Maybe it was jealous and decided to stop a competitor from profiting whilst it could not? Maybe it just went totally out of its mega-mind?
Tags: Bugs, Forex MegaDroid, MetaTrader, VPS
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As our regular readers will know we've been having a few problems getting consistent results from our Forex MegaDroid backtests. We've also had a major problem with our forward tests. The robot hasn't traded for weeks! However last night the Droid leapt back into action with avengeance! Please bear with us while we explain what our various virtual private servers discovered for us while we slept.
More on The Forex MegaDroid Forward Testing Fantasia – Variation 1
Tags: Alpari, Forex MegaDroid, Forex Trading Systems, FXDD, MetaTrader, VPS
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