The deregulation of the Forex market, now offers small investors and traders the chance to trade the Foreign Exchange and this has produced a dramatic increase in automated Forex trading systems. These provide the home based trader with a ‘set and forget’ trading methodology, where the trader installs a Forex robot onto their brokers charting system, selects their chosen inputs and the robot takes over. ..well that’s the theory.
There are many people who are selling Forex robots who have claimed to have found this Holy Grail, and though there are some fascinating Forex robots available, extensive testing by experienced traders has shown up many failures in the claims made by the vendors.
Most of the Forex robot sales claims are based on historical ‘back testing’ results, not live account testing and depending on what platform you are using and the substantiation of the historical charts you access, these will and do vary wildly. We have never yet been able to mirror the results presented on a sales page.
Some Forex robots we have evaluated were incredibly efficient at cleaning out our demo account, so tread very cautiously. Demo accounts are known for producing much better results that live accounts.
Demo accounts will always fill a trade, whereas live accounts are subject to spread variations, slippage, and liquidity, plus broker quirks and lot sizes, just to mention a few influences. So when you stop and think about it, if a Forex robot cleans you out on a demo account, how do you think it will go live???
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment