Manual Back Tester, open trades with hot key in back testing

CL_EC_01_ManualTradingBackTester

Before a strategy is fully automated into an expert adviser, traders usually need to visually test the strategy using historic data or forward testing for a period of time to check system performance. These method is either inaccurate or time consuming.

Manual trading back tester allows trader manually control opening and exiting trades using hot keys with MT4 strategy tester, this simple and elegant tool also provide key features such as MM lot control, trade management break even and trailing stop, as well as instant display of performance data over testing period.

Key Features:

1. Open and close trades using user defined hot key.
2. Allow buy and sell trades being managed separately so possible to test hedging strategy.
3. Possible to use fixed lots or using MM.
4. Option to use break even and trailing stop.
5. Display performance data on screen.

Current version is coded only work with back testing. Please video demonstration below.

Video Demo

Please post your comments/questions in this thread, or email me directly [email protected], do not PM since I do not monitor the PM box. I will keep the latest version always post 1. Thanks.

Thanks Christina for posting this.
I found it a very useful tool.
Very helpful to develop the confidence and 'warm up' the mind for trading.

Just in case you like to develop it further; may be you can consider adding limit and stop order facility as well.

Thanks for sharing this great tool.

In the video you also show the semi automatic version. How/where to get this one?

Awesome ea this. Thanks heaps

Is the EA working for you?? It does not place any trades for me.

Yep works very well

I think that you might have put the EA file in the wrong directory - it should be placed in the 'Experts' folder. If you have not done so already, try the following: (1) open MetaTrader; (2) go to 'File' -> 'Open Data Folder' -> 'MQL4' -> 'Experts'; (3) copy the EA file to the 'Experts' folder; (4) restart MetaTrader.

i still cannot manually buy/sell even i put it in the expert folder

Does anyone know how to keep the past view of the chart (in MT4) from refreshing back to current live view?
Ex: When you try to press the left arrow to go back into the history of that chart on whatever time frame. (instead of zooming out)
It keeps reverting back to live view. (with current ticker)

Is there a way to turn the live view off? to be able to keep the chart screen on whatever past view you want.

Thanks

Thank you so much for this ea, saves me a lot of time backtesting. Are there newer version of this ea?

Quantower platform has a really powerful manual backtester for any markets (Forex, Futures, Stocks, crypto)