Strategy Tester - Need Help

Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm trying to back test an EA.
Alpari-US live account.
I run the test on H1 time frame.
I believe I have all settings correct.
Optimization results come up zero across
the board.

Help Please

Open "Optimization Results" tab, press right mouse button and uncheck "skip useless results" . Try to optimize. if it doesn't help, check your logs for errors.

Thank you for your reply
I checked the journal, it was error 130
message. I changed the parameters on the EA,
It works fine now.

Thanks again.

130 error - problem with Stop Loss or (and) Take Profit. I think your broker is ECN with market execution. For this reason you should open order first and then modify order and add Sl and TP
You can also view this video, maybe you can find usefull info about optimization

You are exactly right.
I changed the input parameters and
it's working fine now.

Thank You very much

Hi,
I want to use an EA to do backtesting more than anything else. I’m fairly new at this, but think I’ve progressed well with learning about EA’s. I’ve done a few little tests that (eventually) do what I want them to do.

I’ve got to a point where I don’t know how to go forward. What I want to do is look at patterns / price action on daily charts, but when I run the backtest, I want to run it in a different timeframe to give more accurate results. BTW, I don’t want to do tick by tick testing, but maybe 5 or 15 minute timeframe. The reason is that if I’m only testing with daily data, my orders won’t execute as they should. Does that make sense? Eg. Price will pass my entry point and reverse back down by close and the trade will never execute, where in reality it would have / or I would have done the trade.

So if I’m running the EA in 5 minute timeframe, then how do I look at the last few bars in the daily chart? I use the Close[1], High[2] to access the last few daily bars. Alternately, could I run the EA in the daily timeframe, but get the start function to run every 5 minutes rather than every tick or only on daily close?

I’d appreciate any help. Thanks.

Gerry