About the site founder

[PipCop]

My name is James Fullerton. I am a ColdFusion web developer living in the Northern Virginia area with my wife. I have been a computer enthusiast since I was in high school, and have been working with computers professionally for about 15 years now. I run a few web sites such as www.OneWebAve.com (my web design and hosting business), www.FriendZoned.com (my relationship advice site), and have recently sold www.RS25.com (a Subaru forum, and I have stayed on as an administrator.)

My recent interest in Forex has led me to create this site. It all started while I was working with my co-workers in 2006 who were also interested in learning Forex. The allure of programming a computer to try to make “intelligent” trades for me is what initially peaked my interest in Forex, but I spent a lot of time learning the basics and trading on my own. Finally, I started to check out the many Expert Advisers (EA’s) that are out there.

One thing I noticed is that there is no real centralized site that has an easy-to-use format to test and review Forex robots, and actually track results with live data. Thus I started PipCop.com to fill that void.

I recently discovered that backtesting was somewhat of a sham, as the results are very unreliable, and anyone posting backtest results but not live forward test results is pretty much lying to you. Unless an EA has been placed on a live broker feed, the data is pretty useless.

So I decided to pull out an old server from my closet and set it up to be a dedicated EA testing machine. My goal was to load it up with live instances of MetaTrader and as many EA’s that I could find, and have them utilize the publisher feature to put the results up in real time, with real data, to my web site. I will also do my best to test commercial products and also put them to the test.

One thing led to another, and now I have several servers running dozens of MT instances, all publishing to the site.

Of course, I still trade manually, but the hope is that these EA’s can trade better than a human can. One real issue that has made me want to look at EAs is the fact that I can spend more time with friends and family if I am not having to sit in front of my computer (or cell phone!) all day watching the market.

I hope the site will serve the investing community well. Of course, if you have suggestions or feedback, please let me know so I can take them into consideration and make the site a better place for everyone.

Thanks for visiting.


James Fullerton

[kedar]

thanksfor what you are doing 'll make a donation soon

Kedar Brown

[PipCop]

You're welcome. I'm very happy so many people enjoy the site!

[redkees]

Hi James,
First things first I absolutely love your site, and if I had of come across it 5 months ago I know I would have saved myself a considerable amount of cash.
My name is Kase van der Wiele and I started my path to learning about FX trading in October last year and came across this idea of Trading Robots or advisors and initially thought the whole idea of them was make believe. But then I started doing some research and read loads and loads of sales copy and decided to buy a few and try them out.
I am now putting together an interview series as an "Introduction to Trading Robots" and l would love for you to be a part of it.

Please check out my site and email me if you would like further details and would like to get involved.

Cheers

[Sam Goodman]

Thanks James!

[fxtrader523]

Hello James. I found your site from a link in Forexpeacearmy.com from someone posting a review about EAs. I admit your site is far better because I have been looking for something that would make sense specially in testing robots which are advertised with so much hype. Thank you for your efforts and dedication to our common interests. Ill be watching your reviews and updates. I am now more confident finding an EA which might work well for me too because I know I can trust your site. Very good work Mr. James, Sir.