stategy tester - reliable?

Hello
i have super cool EA that i did, a real money maker. strategytester gave me cool results.
is it reliable or looking at it is a waste of time?

thanks.

I think the only semi-reliable method of testing is tick-by-tick. you can forget about the others straight away. had an EA where the other methods gave me $600,000 profit (Starting with $10,000) over 2 years. Tried it on tick-by-tick and lost my capital within 6 months.

Having said that, I've heard people say that tick-by-tick is also no good. Keep in min that even tick by tick doesn't use real past prices but just a fancy extrapolation method. Send me the EA and I'll test it for you and won't share it with the world

For my personal experience, I was testing an EA which I developed on a 15 minutes time frame, but the period on which I was considering the ticks was set on 1 minute (downloaded from alpari historical), and I got realiable results, in line with the hand backtesting

Yeah I think if you test something in 1min period then it's reliable because it uses 1 minute data which is the lowest data that strategy tester uses anyway. But if you're testing something in 1H timeframe, it has to extrapolate and guess what the 1min data would be. Most strategies that are designed for 1H, 4H and 1D timeframes can't be tested on 1M timeframe because they just wouldnt' work on it anyway (even manually). They're too much affected by noise. But by no means does that apply across the board.

Just my opinion from what I see. I can't say I'm an expert on the strategy tester (yet).

tanks for the comment :-)
my system runs on 30 min charts only, it will not work on other timeframes. does the 1min ticks check is any good?