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How to test script in strategy tester?

  • #1
  • First Post: Nov 25, 2012 1:13am Nov 25, 2012 1:13am
I am working on a few scripts and I would like to test them in strategy tester since it's the weekend but every time I run the script in strategy tester, it actually tries to place live orders on the corresponding pair in the strategy tester. That is to say that if I open the strategy tester on EU, it will place live orders on EU. I know I can use demo just as easily (which I do) but I would like to take advantage of the weekend. Either that or a weekend demo account but I don't know of any. There WAS Oanda but that won't work anymore.
  • #2
  • Dec 3, 2012 10:54am Dec 3, 2012 10:54am
Quoting bfis108137
I am working on a few scripts and I would like to test them in strategy tester since it's the weekend but every time I run the script in strategy tester, it actually tries to place live orders on the corresponding pair in the strategy tester. That is to say that if I open the strategy tester on EU, it will place live orders on EU. I know I can use demo just as easily (which I do) but I would like to take advantage of the weekend. Either that or a weekend demo account but I don't know of any. There WAS Oanda but that won't work anymore.
Well, if you want a script attached to a chart to open a trade on the Strategy Tester chart.. The way I would do it is create a Global Variable in the Script and have it read from the Expert Advisor running in the Strategy Tester, thus, opening the trade within the E.A.

Dan.
  • #3
  • Last Post: Dec 4, 2012 6:11am Dec 4, 2012 6:11am
Quoting bfis108137
I am working on a few scripts and I would like to test them in strategy tester since it's the weekend but every time I run the script in strategy tester, it actually tries to place live orders on the corresponding pair in the strategy tester. That is to say that if I open the strategy tester on EU, it will place live orders on EU. I know I can use demo just as easily (which I do) but I would like to take advantage of the weekend. Either that or a weekend demo account but I don't know of any. There WAS Oanda but that won't work anymore.
You can't . . . but you could modify your script a little to turn it into an EA that places a single trade on a specified date and time, that will test the bulk of the code in your script.
20 pips a day isn't too much to ask . . .
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