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Our goal is to simulate the judgment and decision-making of the human expert (technical analyst or broker) in a closed world trading system that constantly adjusts exchange rates. We examine the system in terms of its contribution to how exchange rates are affected in an environment which solely consists of traders, without any exogenous factors, and show that our system can outperform all conventional technical indicators, thereby indicating that it could also play the role of facilitating the stabilization of a market by squeezing out non-intelligent traders. We designed and implemented a self-adjusting trading environment whose exchange rate price is only affected by trading within the environment (closed world assumption). We based our work on a modified series of technical indicator simulators, which are fed to an artificial neural network architecture, to eventually generate the trend forecasting signal and a series of customizable ultra-short term automated trading machines, which perform real-time virtual transactions based on the generated forecasting signals. 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