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We are glad to announce that the Automated Trading Championship will be conducted this year - in 2010. The main purpose of the competition is promoting the idea of the automated trading and the new development environment MetaQuotes Language 5 (MQL5). The total prize of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 is 80,000 US dollars.

We always do our best to conduct the Automated Trading Championship on the highest level. This year we keep on preparing the most interesting Championship for you. On the official website of the ATC, we will publish details of all its Participants. Anyone can visit this website to watch trading dynamics of any Expert Advisor and its characteristics. We will also publish weekly statistical reports, interviews with Participants and useful articles. These materials are intended to show the full information on performance of automated trading systems and help traders to develop profitable Expert Advisors.

As distinct from previous competitions, MQL5-programs will participate in Championship 2010. "This year we are going to release the new MetaTrader 5 Platform with the new Expert Advisor development environment - MQL5. That's why we decided to conduct the new competition among Expert Advisors written in MQL5." - Stanislav Starikov, the senior developer of the MetaTrader 5 client terminal and the MQL5 environment, said.

For the three years of the competition conduction, the Championship has become extremely popular being a specialized site where developers from all over the world can demonstrate their programs. Many EA writers use the Championship as a chance to show their programs and advertise their services. We invite you to take part in the Automated Trading Championship 2010 and prove that you know how to develop profitable Expert Advisors.

Dear partners, customers, and users!

As 2009 comes to a close, we'd like to express our sincere gratitude for another year of your confidence in us, and in our products. We highly appreciate your exceptional support and hope that the coming year will be prosperous and successful to all of us.

The expiring year was extremely important for our company. In 2009 we officially released our new development - the TeamWox enterprise management system. Besides that, 2009 allowed us to come closely to the long-awaited release of the new trading platform - MetaTrader 5. We've done our best to achieve this result and provide you with new elaborate trading tools.

Unfortunately, this year we had to renounce the annual Automated Trading Championship. This fact was connected with the release of the MetaTrader 5 platform. However, being aware of the high importance of the Championship for traders, we officially announce that in 2010 we will conduct the Automated Trading Championship. This time we'll watch the contest of Expert Advisors written in the new MQL5 language.

You are valuable to us, and we promise to keep the highest level of our software products! We wish you a wonderful new year filled with abundance, joy, and treasured moments. May 2010 be your best year yet!

Today we're launching our new corporate website that contains the detailed information about our company and all our products. Visit this new website to read about the MetaTrader trading platforms and the TeamWox company management system. Besides, news regarding our company and products will be also published here.

The website also contains the full list of Internet resources that may help you in your work with our products. If you need any help, please contact us using details published on this website.

We are pleased to announce the opening of our new office in Sydney. Strengthening our commitment to the Asia Pacific region,this new office will provide sales and excellent services of all MetaQuotes range of products to all Asia Pacific customers.

Level 39 Citigroup Centre, 2 Park Street 
Sydney NSW 2000

Tel: +612 9004 7211
Fax: +612 9004 7070

Dear clients,

Organization and conduction of the Automated Trading Championship is a very complicated and cost-consuming project. For the maintenance of this competition our company needs to involve tens of specialists from different departments. Among persons involved in the conduction of Championships there are developers of trading platforms and specialists of the software testing department.

As you might know, now we are engaged in the development of a new trading platform MetaTrader 5; its release is planned for this year. All our forces are now concentrated on the platform release, and soon it will be presented to you for beta testing. Focusing all our resources on this release, we don't want to be distracted from this target.

Besides, the new platform will contain a new environment for the development of trading strategies - MQL5 IDE. We find it more reasonable to conduct the next Championship using the new language. However, it is unlikely that potential participants will manage to learn MQL5 and write new Expert Advisors in it. Due to this the number of potential Participants may be much lower - this is sure to have a negative effect on the attraction of the Championship.

Taking into account all this we decided not to conduct the ATC this year. Instead of this we will concentrate our efforts on the release of the new MetaTrader 5 platform and next year we will conduct the Championship for Expert Advisors written in MQL5.

April 1-3 2009 the MetaTrader 5 Workshop was conducted in Kazan. Technical specialists of some of our clients were invited to this event. The main purpose of the meeting was the discussion of the MetaTrader 5 platform that is currently being developed.

Our company was represented by Renat Fatkhullin and Alexander Saidullin, as well as heads of all international offices of MetaQuotes Software Corp. We invited representatives of brokerage companies from all over the world and special guests.

The following issues were the subject of discussions during the meeting:

1. Architecture of the MetaTrader 5 platform.
2. Further development of the platform.
3. Using MetaTrader 5 in stock markets, as well as for trading futures and options.
4. Back office, integration with TeamWox and other software.

The platform and its presentation were shown at the MetaTrader 5 Workshop.

According to the results of the meeting held, the following decisions have been made:

1. In summer 2009 we are planning to start the public beta-testing of the MetaTrader 5 client terminal and the new language for programming trading strategies MQL5.
2. In autumn the beta-testing of MetaTrader 5 back-office components will be started.
3. The main efforts of MetaTrader 5 developers will be concentrated on the maximal flexibility of the platform. "Our platform must be able to easily integrate with the largest possible number of other software, stocks and liquidity providers. This is one of the most important tasks we are going to work on", - Alexander Saidullin, the chief developer of MetaTrader 5, concluded.

We would like to thank all those who came to the Workshop and participated in the discussion of the new platform. We are sure that now we will be able to make MetaTrader 5 maximally convenient for the business of our clients.

On the 5th of April 2009 the «demo.metaquotes.net» server will be stopped. However, the History Center with the minute history will continue to operate.

From this day on our company will discontinue using the demonstration server. Currently, the number of companies working with the MetaTrader 4 platform is so large that we do not see any reason in maintaining our own server.

MetaQuotes Software Corp. continues to expand with the opening of a UK office in February 2009. The new UK base is in partnership with Gold-i Ltd – the exclusive UK agent and US agent for all MetaQuotes products. In line with spiralling demand MetaQuotes clients in the UK, Europe and the USA can now access UK technical support, full system integration, a sales service for the growing range of MetaQuotes products plus bespoke consultancy all under one roof.

Brokers will benefit from the expert knowledge of the new UK office head and Gold-i’s CEO, Tom Higgins who comments, “The MetaTrader platform is the gold standard in retail foreign exchange and CFD trading. The combination of our expertise and this hugely successful platform will bring significant advantages to brokers and banks. Opening a MetaQuotes office in the UK offers both local presence and local market knowledge, which is a really exciting step.”

Contact details of Gold-i Ltd.:
Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road, Surrey, GU2 7YG, UK

We are glad to announce that on the 1st of February our company starts the distribution of TeamWox in all markets. Now any company from any industry will be able to purchase and use the system in their everyday activities. Especially for this product we have created the website www.teamwox.com where all persons interested can find information about the system. Besides usual means, the website offers two possibilities: to become a developer of modules for the system and to become a partner in its distribution.

Using TeamWox SDK, one can develop additional modules for the system or adapt the existing ones to various requirements. Such applications can be then distributed on commercial bases. If you have programming skills and are willing to make some money, become a developer of modules. We offer free help to developers by publishing information about authors and their modules on the TeamWox official website.

Our partners will help us to distribute the system for the fee of 20% of a sales contract price. All relations will be executed on the agreement bases. The closed part of the website will contain all the accounting information on sales and financial operations of our partner. This is a rather easy and quick method to earn additional money.

All you need to do in order to become a developer of modules or our partner is to fill out a corresponding form on the website. After that our managers will contact you and provide you with all the details.

Best regards,
MetaQuotes Software Corp.

For 13 weeks trading robot of Participants of the third annual Automated Trading Championship struggled for the main prize. The Championship gathered Expert Advisors with different trading strategies, with various mechanisms and numerous sets of trading tools. Thanks to Participants, we learned new possibilities of the automated trading. For many Participants this was the time to test and estimate their Expert Advisors without the interference into their work. Now all their worries are over, all Expert Advisors are stopped. Now this is the most pleasant time of the ATC 2008 - time to name the Winners and hand them their prizes.

1. The first place in the ATC 2008 was taken by the Participant from Bulgaria Kiril Kartunov (Liliput). His Expert Advisor first entered the Top Ten list already on the second week of the contest and then never left it. It moved higher and higher. And here is the result - it is on the first position. Kiril thinks that simplicity is the key, because it bears very important information. His Expert Advisor is based on the long-term strategy. It has executed not so many trades - 27; 16 of them were profitable and helped him to win making his balance larger than 169 thousands USD. His profit factor is equal to 3,28. Kiril gets the award of The First Place in the Automated Trading Championship and 40,000 USD from Forex Capital Markets LLC (FXCM). Congratulations, Kiril!


2. The second prize was the subject of a tense struggle till the last moments of the Championship. Such a situation occurs each year. Shortly before all EAs were stopped the Participant Vladimir Lekhovitser (PrizmaL) from Israel appeared on this place. The company where Vladimir works is the developer of Artificial Intelligence for the automated trading in Forex and Futures. But the Expert Advisor PrizmaL does not contain AI. It works on the basis of another tool - Genetic Algorithm. Using this algorithm, time bands and the behavior of EURGBP were defined. This Expert Advisor executed 1 113 trades, 93% of which were profitable. But its profit factor is not high - 1.86. The EA earned 157,000 USD. Vladimir gets the award for The Second Place in the Automated Trading Championship 2008 and 25,000 US dollars from Interbank FX LLC. Vladimir, congratulations to you!


3. The third place was taken by Nauris Zukas (abeiks) from Latvia. His Expert Advisor Indian executed 595 trades; more than 90% of them were profitable. The profit factor of the Expert Advisor is 2.33. These are quite good results. Nauris gets the award for The Third Place in the Automated Trading Championship 2008 and 15,000 dollars from FXDD. Congratulations, Nauris!

We congratulate Winners and all Participants of the Automated Trading Championship 2008! For the help in the organization of the Championship, we would like to thank our Sponsors: Forex Capital Markets LLC (FXCM), Interbank FX LLC, FXDD and the TRADERS' magazine!