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Monday, October 5, 2009

Automated Expert Advisors (EAs) Are They Worth Considering?

By Ash Naeck

If you are familiar with Forex, I bet this is one of those questions that got your brain juices running.

At the start of my trading career, I spent countless hours looking for what I believe would be a perfect Expert Advisor. One with small draw-downs, good returns and that could make consistent profit in any market conditions. To cut this story short I had set myself for a never ending quest. The word "holy-grail" simply does not exist in the Forex world and it took me a lot of time and a large amount of wasted cash to realize this fact.

Why use Expert Advisors?

Below are some of the main reasons why traders are attracted to Automated Expert Advisors:

- No stress

- Less emotion

- More time to relax

- Emotion free

- Doesn't require constant monitoring

- No need for experience

- Improve trading system

As a trader, those are the benefits you will be exposed to having an Expert Advisor trading on auto-pilot. Those are great features indeed but not so great when you take into account the negative side of it. The fact is that more that often Expert Advisors do not deliver on their original promise leaving your trading capital in ruin.

There are thousands of automated Forex providers on the net nowadays. This number is increasing day by day and funnily enough they all seem to have insane winning rate some even with a 100% success rate (hmmm). The common sales pitches used by those providers are:

- Make a killing trading with this robot

- No experience needed- start making money in minutes

- Make a daily $500 on autopilot

- Plug in and make money in a matter of minutes

If half of the above were true I would be sitting on a nice beach as we speak enjoying the sun and sipping on a cocktail, however, here I am sharing with you my experiences about automated expert advisors. Systems that promise to make you thousands overnight or 500%+ return per month are simply B.S. You are more likely to lose than actually make money.

If you are reading this article then consider yourself as one of the lucky ones. Do not get me wrong and am definitely not bragging here, I am simply sharing with you the experience I have had, personally, over those 5 years of trading. I am one of the few who will tell you that 98%+ of the Expert Advisors available on the net simply do not work. If they did work don't you think those major financial corporations would use those systems instead of relying on their FX traders?

The fact is that banks and the big institutions rely heavily on their currency traders to take advantage of the Forex market. They understand that the currency market is way too unpredictable and volatile to allow a robot to be in control. Market conditions change all the time and the only way to adapt to those changes is to have a human mind in control. A robot for instance cannot bend the rules and thus does not cope well if conditions of market changes violently.

Forex robots are many a time designed my mathematicians or engineers who believe they cracked the code to Forex trading. Well no offence to them but if they have already cracked the code, why am I still not profitable. You see the nature of the Forex market is such that changes in market conditions cannot be predicted. This is due to news, catastrophes, political changes etc Do you believe those robots can take all those changes into account?

Here are some of the points to take into account when investing in a Forex Robot:

- Who developed the system? (make sure he/she is a well-known Forex trader with substantial experience in Forex trading)

- How long has the system been in use? (at least 2 years)

- How long has the system been in operation?(2+ years)

- What is the maximum risk exposure?

- Maximum draw-down.

If all the above questions check out okay then you got yourself a winner.

I spent a lot of money on different Expert Advisors over the many years, and it is fair to say that I lost more money than I made. I nearly gave up on all those worthless expert advisors until the day I was introduced to a product designed by a guy named Ashkan Bolour.

I knew nothing about Ashkan Bolour at this point. I researched the net for more information and learnt that he was a highly successful money manager who was well respected in the Forex world. He had featured in many trading books and had become quite an authority in the foreign exchange arena. I decided to try his product after seeing the nice monthly returns he had on his live accounts.

Well the results were quite amazing. It was not a system making 500% or even 100% return each month but it was making some very consistent profits with small draw-downs. If ever you are looking for a proven system backed by consistent profit made on live accounts, Ashkan Bolour's system, the FXprofit Mountain is a must. - 23305

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