Best of the Best
A few tales today of superlative service, of a sort too often lacking in the web-based gambling and trading milieu.
First of all, having moved VPS again, I had to contact a few vendors to get license keys renewed. I received blisteringly fast service from all three of the outfits mentioned in more detail below, Easy-EA.com, for WinPro, Eazegor and Winalot, Shanky Technologies (www.bonusbots.com) for their holdem, omaha and blackjack bots and Super-Roulette.com for (duh) Super Roulette.
Easy-EA first – the Eazegor and Winalot EAs were the source of almost all of my profits in the first half of this year. Now WinPro, the latest EA from this company is putting a smile on my face in time for Christmas. This is the equity curve from WinPro since October, when I announced my £17 starting balance.
This represents a 560% increase on my balance in two months. Anyone who has ever tried to make money from an EA dreams of this sort of return, especially with such modest drawdowns and low level of risk. Anyone who has marketed EAs before would probably have their head explode if they were able to offer this sort of performance. So I posed the question to the developer – why was I not seeing WinPro marketed more aggressively and running in test mode on some of the independent review sites out there? What I got back was a typically thoughtful and thought-provoking response, reproduced below with the author’s permission, although he didn’t initially intend it for publication.
“The EA sales are nice and it’s fun building a business up from scratch, but we are more interested at this stage in producing a quality product which can be sold in limited numbers at a good price rather than anything else. If we can achieve that, it will be used primarily by serious investors with serious money to spend who don’t give grief because it hasn’t doubled their account inside the first 30 days . We’re already looking at a price increase on the subscription before Christmas on the back of recent good results.
Unfortunately, the various test sites around the web are only interested in high volume, short term gain for their affiliate commissions. As soon as a robot has two or three bad days, they tend to bin it and move on to the next piece of Martingale (for want of a better word) trash, in the expectation that it will be the goose that lays the golden egg. This is the real world and wealth creation doesn’t happen like that; it’s a long, slow, drawn out process where risks are controlled.”
My advice – and I’m deliberately not pushing forward my affiliate link so as not to muddy the waters – is to get it while you can if you can.
Over in the pokerbot paddock, I have started to place in the money in about 1 in every 3 tournaments I enter, courtesy of Shanky’s holdem bot, coupled with a scorching hot multi-table tournament script written by the bonusbots forum admin, Egor. My best example so far is coming 105th in the Full Tilt Daily Dollar out of a field of over 9,000. Not pulling in big money yet (the DD returned $9 for an investment of $1), but the trend is definitely moving in the right direction. And Egor, who can come across as irascible on the forum when people pass comments without doing their homework, sent all three of my new licenses within the hour once I had provided proof of purchase.
Finally, Super-roulette have continued their super-aggressive development schedule, releasing a new version with an interesting “two most recent dozens” system. Haven’t had a chance to test it thoroughly yet, but very impressed with the method of its genesis, being suggested first by forum members (purchasers of the earlier version), tested by them in manual mode, adopted by the developer and coded by Tiago (who else!). Other roulette bots still have their plus factors (including lower initial outlay) but none have the actively involved userbase and responsive development team that continually pushes SR to the forefront.
The goodwill to all men theme could go on and on. I just managed to get a Christmas special offer from the GreyHorse Bot team, which involves an unlimited version of the GreyHorse Bot (no monthly subscriptions) bundled with a new version of UltraXtrader with test data and other goodies delivered on a CD. The offer is allegedly closed, but if you register your interest via http://www.spbxmas.com/ they might stretch a point.
But the thing which has really made me get into the festive spirit is the transfer of my VPS service to a London-based server, where I can finally get all of the bots for all of my markets running unattended in the same place for the first time. But that’s big enough news for a whole separate post, once I have got everything up and running.
Happy Advent!
Hey, I recently started reading this blog – thanks for writing. Just wanted to let you know that it’s not displaying properly on the BlackBerry Browser (I have a Tour). Either way, I am now on the RSS feed on my PC, so thanks!
Hey, I just want to thank you for your blog also! It has really helped in my search. I was told to go with leased EAs, sounds like they were right. Makes sense, to find someone who has some skin in the game. But my BIG question is what settings did you use on WinPro to make a 560% increase in 2months? Big Thanks!
I prefer buying EAs outright where possible, but where the vendor prefers a monthly income I can understand it, as they need to fund ongoing support and development. What I’m not keen on is taking the options on leased EAs from third-party suppliers, for example as an add-on to your VPS contract. The reason is that the VPS providers are experts in server support not necessarily in forex trading. Maybe for this reason, the EAs they have on offer can seem to be less current and higher priced than the ones you might otherwise choose. No harm however in choosing a VPS provider who is very au fait with the requirements of MT4 and Expert Advisors, such as CNS (their trader workstation package is particularly recommended). Thanks for your comments and best of luck with your endeavours.
Oh, and as for WinPro, I used it pretty much straight out of the box, on all available currency pairs, with default settings except for ensuring the lotsize couldn’t exceed 0.01. Cheers, Mark.