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  • #1
  • First Post: Edited 3:56pm Aug 19, 2006 3:16pm | Edited 3:56pm
silly question:

Somebody can tell me how to backtest EA systems ?
A friend of mine told me that under 'experts' he has a 'backtesting option', which I dont have.
I tryed to install mt4 again, but didnt find any option like this.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
  • #2
  • Aug 19, 2006 4:04pm Aug 19, 2006 4:04pm
I think I found something under
http://www.forexfactory.com/forexfor...ead.php?t=6002

So I guess it has to be done with a separate script done by myself ?

Cheers
  • #3
  • Aug 19, 2006 4:17pm Aug 19, 2006 4:17pm
Quoting trucco
silly question:
Somebody can tell me how to backtest EA systems ?
A friend of mine told me that under 'experts' he has a 'backtesting option', which I dont have.
I tryed to install mt4 again, but didnt find any option like this.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Under the view menu select strategy tester or click the button with the magnifying glass on the top of MT.
  • #4
  • Aug 19, 2006 5:38pm Aug 19, 2006 5:38pm
Quoting nvwine
Under the view menu select strategy tester or click the button with the magnifying glass on the top of MT.
Thanks nvwine,
I found out how to do and import historical datas.
Now I have a new problem

As my EA is used to me to give me only alert of buy and sell, To backtest it I replaced all the buy alerts with :

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,0.1,Bid,0,0,7,"sell ",255,0,CLR_NONE);



and all the close alterts with:

OrderClose(OrderTicket(),1,Ask,0.1,CLR_NONE);

I get a strange result :

Basically it shows only the openorders results (and sometimes also wrong, as I tested life and Im sure of wht it does) , but never shows me the close of the orders, so i have no idea about my profit loss

Thanks if somebody has suggestions
  • #5
  • Aug 19, 2006 6:05pm Aug 19, 2006 6:05pm
I tryed to modify the order includeing take profit and stop, but at this point the backtesting returns me 0 rows ?

What is wrong ?

ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,0.1,Ask,3,Bid+20*Point,Bid-12*Point,"buy ",255,0,CLR_NONE);
  • #6
  • Aug 19, 2006 6:10pm Aug 19, 2006 6:10pm
I think i solved how to put the stop and take profit in the sendorder() but how is to close the order somewhere else into the script ?
Is not correct to use the function orderclose(ticket numer .....)
where ticketnumber is the ticket returned from sendorder() ?


Cheers
  • #7
  • Last Post: May 13, 2011 10:33pm May 13, 2011 10:33pm
Hi,
Anybody can help me finding proper slippage for closeorder() with 5 digit brokers?.
I am getting Error : 129 (invalid Price) when i hedging EA try to close multiple positions.
Thanks

Quoting trucco
Thanks nvwine,
I found out how to do and import historical datas.
Now I have a new problem

As my EA is used to me to give me only alert of buy and sell, To backtest it I replaced all the buy alerts with :...
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