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The following actions are required by the user of the system in order to start trading with it:

1. Open an account with FXCM.com (or use your current FXCM account for trading);
2. Download trading software with a variety of pre-programmed trading strategies and a number of optimization options;
3. Download our automatic trading platform;
4. Choose your list of currencies, strategy particulars and indicator parameters;
5. Decide if you want to commence your real time and real money trading;
6. Decide if you want to commence your trading automatically or manually;
7. Check your FXCM account as for details of trades’ execution and your strategies real time performance.

The user will perform the following procedures in order to choose his preferred trading strategy:

1. Choose your list of currencies that you would like to trading with;
2. Choose your preferred strategy/ies that you would like to trade with from the database of strategies comprising of hundreds of different strategies;
3. Choose indicators and parameters for your chosen trading strategy/ies;
4. Decide if to perform optimization, and, if yes, perform optimization for your chosen trading strategies;
5. Optimizing trading parameters of the trading ideas/strategies above and performing in-sample testing once again;
6. Choosing of the best strategies with the best parameters following the in-sample testing results;
7. Real time testing of the best strategies from the in-sample testing (with its best parameters) – out-sample testing;
8. Real time self-optimization of trading parameters taking into consideration trading results obtained from out-sample testing above;
9. Presenting those real time self-optimized hypothetical trading results on the web site;
10. Choose your own leverage for each strategy;
11. Customize your own stops and limits.

        Trading Software module is used to build, evaluate and test trading indicators and trading strategies. It has a variety of pre-programmed trading strategies and trading indicators. Trading software produces Buy/Sell signals according to one or more trading indicators and/or trading strategies, both in a back test mode or in a real-time mode. After a satisfactory amount of testing, the user can switch this software into a real-time and real-money mode, thus the trading software produces Buy/Sell signals that are transmitted via our Automatic Execution platform to computerized exchanges for real-time execution.

       To start using this trading software, the user of the system has to choose the portfolio of currencies that he wants to trade and to enter appropriate securities symbols into the software.

       Then, he has to choose his preferred trading strategy or trading indicator for the selected portfolio of securities. The user can choose from a variety of pre-programmed technical indicators.

       The user can base his trading decisions either on one strategy or a combination of strategies. He can also make changes to the build-in strategies by pressing Modify Strategy button and/or by adding technical indicators to the chosen strategy.

       As a result of strategy building process, the user has a ready-to-use system that generates Buy/Sell signals for the currencies previously entered into the portfolio.

        Optimization facility is another useful feature needed to specify certain trading conditions in regard with the chosen strategy, such as period, start and finish dates of optimization, period, start and finish dates of back testing, period of back testing, shortest and/or longest and/or average trading span (difference (in bars) between purchasing a security and selling it), commissions, margin rates and other important trading strategy parameters. The user can now back test the trading strategy using wide array of back test specific parameters and see its performance history.

        Generally speaking, optimization techniques examine all possible combinations of indicators and parameters trying to find out a best model (an optimal model).

        And another significant feature of the trading software is an Optimization Facility. In general, optimization techniques attempt to take into account all relevant trading data and trading parameters available on a current vastly developed marketplace. The goal is to generate Buy/Sell signals by taking as input all relevant trading information, data, parameters and indicators, and selecting only those of them which produce most accurate predictions of security’s price movement.

        After sufficient amount of back testing, the user can either let the system go “live”, i.e. let it generate real-time Buy/Sell signals on stocks in the portfolio or to engage in a Paper Trading activities. Paper Trading means that automatic order feature emulates sending orders (automatically and, completely, without human intervention) according to the chosen trading strategy to computerized exchanges and receiving confirmations of executed orders but real money is not invested. Paper Trading provides an opportunity to test trading strategy performance in real-time. Another possible use of Paper Trading is to consider and to evaluate different execution alternatives offered by our system against real-time market conditions (detailed explanation on different execution alternatives is presented later in this document). After sufficient amount of back testing and/or Paper Trading, the user can use the system to transfer automatically real-time Buy/Sell orders on securities in the portfolio to computerized exchanges

        There are no up-front fees or monthly subscription fees for our service.

       You pay only for the trades executed. Our service costs only 1 pip per 100,000k of base currency. Therefore, you only pay for the signals you trade, from the signals you have chosen from a variety of trading strategies available.

       Using our system you will avoid the situation where you have paid for the service up-front only to have found that the trading signals are not that accurate or that there are not enough trading signals to justify the high cost of the service subscription.

• Windows 2000, XP or Vista, preferably with Service Pack 2 (SP2);
• Pentium 3 or higher;
• At least 512 MB of memory;
• 1 GB free space on your hard disk;
• Preferably. A dedicated POP3 e-mail account;
• Internet connections through proxy servers are not supported as well as working with Firewalls.