Interview with Rogério Figurelli (figurelli) - Automated Trading Championship 2012

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Interview with Rogério Figurelli (figurelli)[ru]

By the end of first week our Championship has got a new leader Crucian from Ukraine. His Expert Advisor confidently tookprofit of $7000 and yet continues to open a profitable position. We will carefully monitor the situation, preparing newreports.

Today we are going to talk with Rogério Figurelli (figurelli), a regular participant from Brazil that has not missed anyAutomated Trading Championship since 2007. This year, he also began to sell his Championship's Expert Advisor in theMarket along with his other products. Rogério believes that MetaTrader 5 platform certification on the largest Brazilianexchange BM&FBOVESPA will reveal new professional developers and traders, who do not yet know the full potential ofrobot investors.

Hello Rogério! Tell us a little about yourself. How did you get into trading?

I've always been involved with the research and development of new technologies. Since 1998 I became interested in thearea of robots software, then switched into segment of real time information (news) and competitive intelligence. I wasone of the pioneers in the area launching a software similar to Google News in 1999.

In 2003 I founded a company, where I devote myself to the development of trading robots and technologies in thefinancial and quantitative systems. In 2008, in my MBA dissertation, I proposed a new investment school called VisionSchool, based on strategic vision for quantitative systems and still in this year I launched the first Brazilian blog in thisarea.

Is automated trading becoming popular in Brazil? How did you get started?

In my opinion, there is still a strong resistance in this area in Brazil, due to lack of tools like MetaTrader, but I'm sure thesituation will change in the next few years. I have started developing my own systems in C++ in 2003, and had the firstcontact with MQL4 in 2007, researching Forex and its technologies.

I started to migrate my systems to this platform, as well as to MQL5 from 2008. Currently, I'm using C++ and MQL5 in allof my systems, as well as integrating other tools and market solutions, such as Matlab.

Now that MetaTrader 5 got certified by BM&Bovespa, how this will change the life of Brazilian traders likeyou?

I believe it will have a big impact, allowing to popularize the use of trading systems and Expert Advisors. In practice, itwill be a real revolution in quantitative area. It will open doors for the development of new professionals and traders inthe area, that still don't know quantitative finance or the potential of creating investment robots.

For most traders here, trading robots are just an automation tools. The entrance of MetaTrader 5 will enable smartautomatic trading systems. That is what I call investment robots.

How difficult is it to program a trading system? What about now with MQL5 Wizard?

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Our country has excellent and recognized professionals in banking technology, and that is already a very strong andstable market. I think our main problem is the lack of tools and platforms for the development of trading systems that arereally competitive. For example, everyone knows that soccer is our main sport. If you draw an analogy with trading, wehave lots of good players (traders and developers), but lack good balls (trading platforms).

The MQL5 Wizard is a breakthrough, it lets you create an Expert Advisor in seconds. This feature is most useful forbeginners in programming trading strategies, as well as traders without programming skills. As we have great traders inthe country, the demand for automation will be great and the Wizard will be very useful.

What do you think about MQL5? Is it powerful enough? Does it have all the features you need?

MQL5 is undoubtedly the most complete tool in the development of quantitative systems that I know (and I have testedseveral ones). Among the most attractive features of the language, I want to mention its open architecture, freedistribution, innovative technologies such as MQL5 Cloud Network and Market of ready-to-use solutions, an interestingforum, and a strong community of traders and developers.

You have already participated in the Automated Trading Championships. What progress has beenachieved?

Modesty aside, I note that I am the most regular participant from Brazil. From 2007 till now I have participated inAutomated Trading Championship 4 times, missing only the very first championship - then I just started learningMetaTrader platform. This year I'm going to compete for the prize for the fifth time. In 2008, I was in the top position forseveral weeks, but unfortunately my EA did not cope with high market volatility caused by US subprime crisis.

My best performance was in 2010, when I finished at position 52 as the best Brazilian robot. Despite this, I believe thatparticipation in Automated Trading Championships is a great opportunity for self-study, which is available to all traders. Iwant to believe that working for improve and disseminate in some way the culture of quantitative trading in our country ismy best success until now. On page http://championship.mql5.com/2012/en/news/164/page2#comments you can findmy calculations on participants from Brazil.

Please tell us more about what kind of trading strategies do you use? Do you trade them also in liveaccounts?

Personally, I like to study strategies of artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a strong bias in the area of digitalsystems. I have some Expert Advisors that trade on real accounts. I adopt two operating modes: fully automatic andsemi-automatic, with the possibility of interference to make trading decisions.

Do you think your Expert Advisor has a chance to be among the winners of the Automated TradingChampionship 2012?

I always work hard to be among the winners. All this requires large exposure, high risks and intelligent algorithms thatadapt to any market changes, since for three months we can't change our Expert Advisors. My EA performance insimulations and backtesting is good, but we have to remember that market always knows more than us. Furthermore,the level of competition is increasingly high and challenging. That way, I'll be quite happy to see any Brazilian participantin any position at the first page.

We've noticed that you recently started to sell your EA on the MQL5 Market, right? Are you going toprovide programming services to traders as well?

I believe in the MQL5 Market, and in my opinion it is an excellent opportunity to export technology and trading systems.Our solutions in the Market are available to investors from any country. Arrival of MetaTrader 5 to the BM&FBovespaexchange is a great opportunity for both manual and automated trading.

Of course, we will continue to work in this direction, developing new solutions for sale via MQL5 Market. We plan to bringour system with profitable strategies for Forex and CFD to BM&FBovespa exchange.

Thank you very much for the interview, we wish you success in the Championship!

Published by: MetaQuotes Created: 5 October 2012 Print version

Interview with Achmad Hidayat(achidayat)

Throughout the entire duration of theAutomated Trading Championship 2012, we will

be providing live coverage of the events - hot reports andinterviews every week. This report spotlights Achmad Hidayat(achidayat), the participant from Indonesia. On the first dayof the Championship his Expert Advisor secured its position inthe third ten, which is a good start. Achmad has sparked ourinterest with his active participation in the MQL5 Market. Hehas already published over 20 products thus far.

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Congratulations on being already interviewed. Hopefully what you want can be achieved.

2012.10.05 14:57 achidayat 261 # reply

Great interview, amazing answers, denotes your profesionalism in the area. I hope there are more to come for you.

I want my own interview too! :)

2012.10.05 17:29 TripleHeinz 87 # reply

achidayat:Congratulations on being already interviewed. Hopefully what you want can be achieved.

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Achmad, thank you very much, I hope the same for you.

2012.10.05 17:56 figurelli 393 # edit | reply

TripleHeinz:Great interview, amazing answers, denotes your profesionalism in the area. I hope there are more to come foryou.

I want my own interview too! :)

Thank you for your supportive comments. Good lucky!

2012.10.05 19:09 figurelli 393 # edit | reply