I believe that profitable EA exist but you cannot "allow the EA to live its own life" you need to monitor it and re-optimize from time to time

Can you please explain this with more details? How do we increase the objectivity?

you can also use local trade copiers to transfer your trades to other accounts, I used to manage my wife's and brother's accounts with this and I believe that there are no special legal procedures which you need to manage someone's account, ...

exactly

is this a result from a real account?

yes you're right, there is some latency in copying (a second or a few seconds) but this is not good for scalping strategies only, and is fine for other types of strategies, anyway you cannot copy indicator values (or maybe it is possible but I do ...

I used to have the similar issue but fixed it with a trick described here: url

there is one more solution for such issues (is good for any window which is located outside of the visible area). When the window which you want to bring back is selected press ALT+Space and choose Move option, then use arrow keys to move the window

styan, my congratulations! you've created an interesting system. so how do you plan to sell your EA now? will you restrict it to the account number or computer hardware? is there a way how you can restrict copying signals of your EA? unfair ...

Why don't you test your strategy on backtesting program on a few years of data first? this will give you an idea how profitable the strategy is. if you feel that the strategy is very good then you can ask for coding it, etc... if it is not good then ...

wow, Erebus, thank you for the detailed explanation! i used to have problems with UAC and MT4 in my Win 7 and moving the program outside of program files folder really helped me.

I do not recommend using standard MT4 data from history center, there are a lot of "holes". Also if you plan testing RB then you may need tick data, so consider importing some good tick data instead. Take a look on this tick data source. Or find ...

completely agree with henryduncan1, I'd not share an EA if I use it for making money. henryduncan1, what kind of manual trading strategies do you use? is it technical or fundamental analysis?

How exactly do you need to extend zoom out function? if you're not satisfied with what you see on chart then you can create the custom indicator which will show you bars in other way

I think that it is possible, why not? but you may need advanced VPS for this not the basic one, more RAM and more CPU

I'd prefer to use this data source: url there are minutes and tick data for 30 symbols and 8 brokers. also it is easy to import these data into MT4 terminal with the help of the program which they provide

Hello, you can download Forex Tester, import any M1 data there, create 13 min timeframe (FT allows to create custom timeframes) and then export data in your timeframe, you do not even need to buy the program for that. also they have 10 years of M1 ...

If the quality of testing means a lot for you then do not use built-in MT4 tester... very often it shows the profit even fro bad EAs so I suppose that it will not be precise with manual strategies as well.

Sorry, what do you mean by "candles are all [email protected]*ked up"? Can you send a screenshot? Candles depends on data which you import into the program. You can even import tick data into this program and you will get 99% modeling quality.

Yes, it is a problem, but I believe that it worth to invest money into good tools to save more money later. Hmm, as far as I know it is possible to change between timeframes and even test different timeframes of different currency pairs ...