Terminate a test programmatically

Quoting broketrader

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Hi all, Does anyone of you know if there is a way to tell the MetaTrader tester that we just want to terminate a test. For example, let's say that I want to run a test on a 5 years time frame and that after 3 months a condition is triggered on which I would like to stop the test. The only way I have found now is to just call "return" for the remaining bars and I was wondering if there was a way to not consume that processor time on the remaining bars... I hope that my explanation is clear and thank you for your help.

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Quoting broketrader

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Hi Ferru, Because I don't know in advance when my condition will be met, it can be after 3 weeks or after 3 months and also the test itself is part of an optimization scheme which repeats the test itself but starting on a different day, the day after in fact...

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int start()
{
if(disabled) return(0);
if(YOUR CONDITION HERE)  { disabled = true; return(0); }

Quoting broketrader

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Thanks, this is what I already do. But I guess that the tester continues to call start() for the remaining bars of the period being tested. That's why my question was if there was a way to tell the tester to stop calling the start() function for the remaining bars. For example it could have been fine to return (-1) to tell the tester that this test just terminated avoiding it to continue until the last bar of the test period, but I guess that there is no such thing...

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Quoting broketrader

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I'm the specialist at looking for things that doesn't exist.

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Quoting broketrader

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FerruFx, thank you very much for your time.

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Quoting broketrader

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Yes, if there are other good programmers around, I'm all ears...

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Quoting reteid2222

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{quote} Just code an runtime error like 2/0 then the expert will be shut down immediately! {image}

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Quoting FerruFx

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{quote} A cleaner solution would be to use ExpertRemove() when condition is found. It will stop immediately the backtest. This function was not yet released at the time of the thread start.

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Quoting reteid2222

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{quote} Interesting that this method also work in testing mode....

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Quoting reteid2222

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{quote} Just code an runtime error like 2/0 then the expert will be shut down immediately! {image}

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Quoting FerruFx

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{quote} A cleaner solution would be to use ExpertRemove() when condition is found. It will stop immediately the backtest. This function was not yet released at the time of the thread start.

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Quoting broketrader

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Wouahou ! Had even forgot about this one :-D Not in that anymore but good to know that a solution finally exists ! {quote} {quote} Thanks to both of you for taking the time to respond.

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