DislikedA while back, people were talking about back-testing the system to get their "Aha" moment... In reading through the Choros thread (not redirecting people, just going through the chain I followed) I found a trade simulator that runs in the MT4 strategy tester. It has scripts to run for buy/sell and limit setting as well as closing orders. You can run it super fast and slow it down for trading times -- Can trade a whole year's worth of charts in a day. If anyone is interested, I can repost the pertinent files here. It helped with THREE things for...Ignored
good to remind me..
people can download the simulator here: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=70742
files and instructions are all there..
people do have to remember:
1. that they have to look at the past news as well, otherwise wont give a realisitc result
2. if they want to test during the weekend, to close the platform when the spreads are still low, otherwise you have in the simulator the high spreads when your broker closes..
Udine
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