Hello,
I have just finished coding this MA cross EA, where an entry signal occurs when the close of the previous bar crosses a user-defined simple moving average line.
It seems to work well, and my modelling quality is up to 89.51%, but the strange thing is that, given a particular lot size (0.2), the net profit of the EA is always around $2,000, from an assumed initial deposit of $10,000. This is when I use optimized input values for MA_period, TP, and SL.
Whether I use the optimized values for Jan 2008 till now or Jan 2000 till now, the net profit is always around $2,000.
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Ravi.
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Edit:
Okay, so I looked at the results of the backtests, and found that the reason they gave similar final net profits was that the first trade they put in is always on 2007.09.25 or 2007.09.26. I don't think that the tester is really testing before that, probably because of insufficient history data.
Does anyone know where I can get more history data? The data I use currently is from the alpari site. Thanks.
I have just finished coding this MA cross EA, where an entry signal occurs when the close of the previous bar crosses a user-defined simple moving average line.
It seems to work well, and my modelling quality is up to 89.51%, but the strange thing is that, given a particular lot size (0.2), the net profit of the EA is always around $2,000, from an assumed initial deposit of $10,000. This is when I use optimized input values for MA_period, TP, and SL.
Whether I use the optimized values for Jan 2008 till now or Jan 2000 till now, the net profit is always around $2,000.
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Ravi.
------------------
Edit:
Okay, so I looked at the results of the backtests, and found that the reason they gave similar final net profits was that the first trade they put in is always on 2007.09.25 or 2007.09.26. I don't think that the tester is really testing before that, probably because of insufficient history data.
Does anyone know where I can get more history data? The data I use currently is from the alpari site. Thanks.
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