Clarification and relieve for Dukascopy JForex Strategy Contest

I found out that the competing strategy in the Dukascopy JForex Strategy Contest doesn't need to be 100% automatic! According to Contest Support in the official forum, I can set parameters like take profit target, stop loss, and long-only or short-only trades. That make this contest substantially easier to program as I can implement a semi-automatic strategy, which is what I prefer in my real trading. The problem with building an automated trading system is that market conditions change frequently and without notice. Thus, it takes more than a few lines to program a consistently profitable system to filter out undesirable conditions. As I discussed before, because all winners in this contest have to publish their source codes, I don't want to spend too much time on this contest. Now that I know I can trade semi-automatically in this contest. I can just do my analysis manually and then use the strategy to execute trades when I so desire. That is exactly like my real trading process as illustrated before. As you can imagine, I am very happy of this news. I don't need to scratch my head anymore to build a new strategy for next month's contest. I programmed and tested several new ideas in the past 2 weeks but haven't found anything better than my existing strategy, which has been doing well in April. This Dukascopy JForex Strategy Contest has been a great incentive for me to become familiar with JForex. As I intend to use it for my real trading at Dukascopy (open an account with this affiliate link to receive 35% rebate on commissions) later this year, this is a win-win situation for me as I learn the API and possibly win some prize money at the same time.