Strategy Tester Quick Question

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if someone can help me out with this one question that I have with Metatrader. Every single time I use a program, I let it run for a week or two. Afterwards, I run it through the strategy tester. When I'm finished, there are many different trades, ones that were added as well as ones that were deleted. This happens with each MODEL (every tick, control points, and open prices).

Does anyone know a better strategy tester program that will actually show the accurate trades? I mean, when it goes through forex history, it will actually give results that would have been the same as live trading.

THANKS

jj

When using strategy tester, you have to be aware of the limitations. Specifically, it requires good data and tends to perform "oddly" when trades open & close within the most granular period of data that you have available.

What timeframe are you trading on?
Do you have 1 minute data loaded for the entire period you're testing?
Do you employ immediate or end-of-bar entries?
Do you enter/exit in the same bar?
What is strategy tester telling you the quality of the results are?

Strategy tester is far from perfect but knowing what it's limitations/requirements are will go a long way towards getting some decent results.