Organizing the Automated Trading Championship 2007, we cared about the purity of the competition and equality of conditions for all Participants. For this purpose before the Championship start we carried out automated checking of all Expert Advisors and prospective Participants for multiple registrations. This checking was aimed at revealing groups of almost identical Expert Advisors written by one developer, but sent under different names. Thus developers try to increase their chances for winning.
Having conducted such a check before the Championship, we prevented the participation of many developers. For this reason the prize-winner of the previous Championship (GODZILLA) does not participate in the current competition. Besides, a group consisting of 14 EAs from one developer from Italy was not admitted to the Championship. The automated checkup helped to avoid many problems. We checked quite easily 2000 prospective participants and two thirds of them were not admitted. However it was almost impossible to check the remaining 603 participants manually.
At that, for preventing the undeserved winning of frauds, we decided to check manually the leading 10 Participants of the Championship. For this purpose we gathered the information from Participants' authorization logs on the Championship website and on the trading server. We were interested in multiple logins to different accounts from one and the same IP-address. During the last week of the Championship we checked the logs and found out that authorizations for accounts of 14 Indonesian Participants were made from the same IP-addresses.
In other words one developer has submitted 14 copies of one Expert Advisor (which is actually a standard Moving Average EA) with insufficient changes and regularly checked it on all 14 accounts. Examination of compiled EX4 files showed the presence of a unique text line "Error in history" (text lines are not encoded) in EA bodies which proves their identity.
This fact violates the following rules of the Automated Trading Championship 2007:
- II. 5. The Participant can be registered only once within the Championship.
- II. 6. The attempts of multiple registrations or use of anonymous proxies will result in unambiguous disqualification of the Participant.
Participants that violated rules:
- 500068 hadar5
- 500236 kojex243
- 500253 ediispj
- 500279 sutrisnopj
- 500295 pohanjwn
- 500312 djoshy
- 500404 rinpj
- 500497 admadinata
- 500552 rozaq
- 500565 afif
- 500581 munir
- 500571 dwijayanti
- 500583 rian
- 500584 rowan
One of these 14 Participants is the "developer" under the nickname admadinata, which is now among the leading positions and is contending for the prize. However the revealed violations of the Championship rules do not allow him to participate and demand his disqualification.
It was decided to call a new session of the Jury. The Jury Members voted about disqualification of the above Participants.
Voting: |
|
Renat Fatkhullin:
| Agreed |
| Stanislav Starikov: | Agreed |
| Alex Mackinnon: | Abstained |
| Andrey Vedikhin: | Agreed |
| Asher Rogovy: | Abstained |
| Thomas Bopp: | Agreed |
The Jury decided to disqualify the above Participants by a majority of votes.
