After assessing the problems experienced last night, we have come to the conclusion that it would be best to move our live trading demo account to a more stable demo server. This will require those of you watching the demo trading live to download the software from an entirely different company. Here are the new instructions.
We chose to trade our demo account with Tradeview because our broker of choice, FXCM, only allows real money accounts and Tradeview has spreads similar to those that we expect to receive from FXCM. Unfortunately, Tradeview is a new Forex company and continues to have problems. On Friday for instance, the servers went down for 2 hours in the afternoon. It didn't have any effect on our trading because we had closed all but one trade by that point. However, with more problems last night drastically effecting our ability to accurately track the effectiveness of the strategies we decided it better to change companies early on rather than continue to fight these problems. We are putting in place error alerts so that if this were to happen on a live account server with real money the trader monitoring the accounts at that time would know instantly of the problem and would be able to resolve the error quickly.