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FXCM Strategy Trader shows some promise

September 19th, 2010
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Got a spam email from FXCM about a contest on some new platform they’ve built (themselves it seems). It is called Strategy Trader and after a quick download I must say that it actually “feels” quite interesting. FXCM is of course claiming that it is much better than anything else on the market and goes on to “compare” features with MetaTrader 4. We all know that MT4 is old, so the comparisons are a bit unfair. MT5 is already out, even if it hasn’t gotten too much attention yet. I can’t say if ST is better or not, but at least it feels new and fresh. I’ve just looked around it for 15 minutes now thou.

The Strategy tester is multi-threaded so backtesting their complementary Grid trader was quick. They brag about 1 year of 1M data for free in the platform, but that doesn’t impress as we’re all hooked on tickdata from DukasCopy. A nice feature is that it is possible to test with both ask and bid prices.

The contest they’re arranging comes with a $10,000 first price, so it might be worth it to try and port some of my MT4 EAs to the Strategy Trader. Considering that I haven’t had time to do the same for the MT5 contest reality probably is that I won’t make it in time for the deadline thou… :)

Check it out: http://www.fxcm.co.uk/automated-forex-trading.jsp#Overview

Update: After messing with the platform for a few hours now, including downloading a few sample strategies from their forum I must say that I am impressed. I will certainly try to get a scalper strategy of mine ported from MQL4 to C# and the Strategy Trader. I’m planning to do so in steps. The first step will be to move functions from the MQL4 code to a C# written DLL. I can then verify that the converted code gives the exact same behavior as the original since I can call the functions in the DLL from a wrapper EA. I can then use the same file with function in a new C# wrapper in Strategy Trader (and call the DLL from MQL5 if I want to also).

The platform is different to work in as MT4 really been the only tool I’ve been using for a long time and gotten very used to, but everything is starting to fall into place. Some things I like (reports for example), other are still confusing. The speed is undeniable, everything is very responsive and the backtests are lightning fast.

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