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Free Expert Advisor with positive backtest results 5 replies
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DislikedBut when I test on tick data from 2005 to 2016 the drawdown is 99%Ignored
DislikedI'm currently trying to learn how to code EA's. In learning, I've created various scripts that perform very simple tasks. One of these entered a buy trade everytime a Doji candlestick appeared, with a SL of 25 pips and a TP of 50 pips. When I ran it on the tester though, it gave me a nice steady equity curve (seen in the image below): {image} Obviously you'd be mad to trust a single penny to such a system, so what should be made of the fact that it actually seems to have turned a steady profit? Does this mean that the tester is not a very good indicator...Ignored