Can anyone advise how to backtest an EA?

I have a programmer that has built a indicator for me but says I must backtest it as an EA. Can anyone clue me in as to what the steps are?

Thanks
Cody

Indicators as well as EAs can be tested in Strategy Tester. Just start up an an EA in visual mode, press the pause icon and add the indicator to the chart in the normal manner and press the pause icon again to resume testing. Try to pick an EA that doesn't interfere with the indicator.

There is forward testing and back testing.

1. In forward testing you open
Tools/Options and see what I attached.
You drag and put your EA on chart.
The above button Expert Advisors must be depressed.
Wait for first tick to see it works.

Ivan,

Could you possibly help me out to do a short video on how this is all done to help out. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
Cody

You are smart. Let me do it later when I have more time.

To keep to my word, I did a video but it is too big size to upload here.
Contact me by Skype and I can send you.

Post it to youtube!

Or amindseye could just google it, there are plenty of videos out there about the subject. Plus google has been invaded by Pacman today

When I try to import data into my history center it says on the navigator with a red sign.

Memory handler: cannot allocate 13790878767 bytes of memory.

Ive checked my computer and I have plenty of free disk space, how can I increase the amount of memory that my 'historybase' can use?

You can't sebastion:

Metatrader is a 32-bit application which restricts the amount of usable ram. The only thing you can do is have one chart with all the data open at a time. You will also need to periodically restart metatrader to reset the memory used.

Thanks ron I didn't realize meta trader was that limited, do you just download a new terminal for each pair then?
I think that will be the easiest solution for me.

the only time I need 3million + bars on the chart is when I'm backtesting. So I just open one bar at a time