Human Traders are an Endangered Species!
That prescient title is a quotation from a presentation given by Professor Dave Cliff of the University of Bristol at the Innovation and Algorithmic Trading conference hosted by LMAX at University...
View ArticleRay the Random Robot Enters the myfxbook Elite
The myfxbook blog has just been updated with a new post summarising the results of their most recent MetaTrader 4 trading contest. It includes a revealing pie chart showing that after 30 days of demo...
View ArticleBuru Trader Blows Up
If you're from the United States you may well never have heard of Buru Trader. However if you're a customer of Interbank FX Australia like me, you probably will have done. It's a bundle of two...
View ArticleRay the Random Robot Finally Comes a Cropper
As a couple of our more perceptive readers have recently pointed out to me, Ray the Random Robot's equity curve (the live version of which you can see proudly displayed to the left of this post) has...
View ArticleSid the Superstitious Robot Launched at the Royal College of Art
Here at the Trading Gurus we often get asked to write MetaTrader 4 "robots". When asked "how much" we quote a random large number. We then add the rider "If you don't mind making your robot open source...
View ArticleRay The Random Robot Commits Suicide
It has recently been pointed out to me by a sharp eyed reader of the Trading Gurus home page that Ray the Random Robot has been flatlining for quite a while now. Here's how his equity curve looks at...
View ArticleSid and Ray Robots Meet at the Design Museum
Sid is the Superstitious Robot and Ray is the Random Robot and they are cousins. They finally got to meet in person earlier this week thanks to Sid's appearance in the Designs of the Year 2013...
View ArticleRay Robot II Ported to Java
Regular readers of the Trading Gurus blog will know that the Son of Ray the Random Robot™ has been simultaneously spreadbetting a variety of live MetaTrader accounts for nearly two years now. The...
View ArticleAvoiding Overfitting Ray Robot II
Ray Robot II and I have just been called a variety of names over on a LinkedIn thread started by Marcos López de Prado and entitled "Pseudo-Mathematics and Financial Charlatanism". As best as I can...
View ArticleRay the Random Robot Reborn
I recently stumbled across a thread on LinkedIn which started with the querulous claim: Do you know any trading system that generates more than $20,000/month profit? accompanied by a suspiciously...
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