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Welcome to The Genetic Trader, a blog documenting my efforts to create profitable trading strategies for forex, commodities and equities using Genetic Programming.

If, like me, you have seriously looked at traditional technical trading strategies only to find they rarely generate any profit you will hopefully find this site interesting.

There are a multitude of MetaTrader Expert Advisors out there but I have yet to find one that is freely available that generates a profit over any time period or currency pairs. Similarly I have coded several strategies of my own and from others and again none have made a sustained profit in the long term. Yet advertisers of wonder trading systems assure us that such things exist and, if trading forums are to be believed, there are people out there making a living from trading so they must be using strategies that work even if they can’t describe them.

So my plan is to use genetic programs to search for profitable strategies and implement them in MetaTrader where they can be backtested on historic data and forward tested on a broker demo account.

Start here to read my plan for forex trading.

Several previous studies have show that there is merit in this approach. If successful strategies exist, I will find them and implement them.