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Strategy Tester with Windows 10

  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 30, 2016 4:24pm Jul 30, 2016 4:24pm
So here I am backtesting my EA on my Win10 PC but there are no LONG trades, they are all short. It is not the settings so I check the EA on my other PC which is still WIN7 and it works fine with both long and short trades. The data is the same but I get different results.

I have checked every setting on both MT4s but this is a solid consistent problem for this EA. Has anyone else ever seen this?
  • #2
  • Jul 30, 2016 6:24pm Jul 30, 2016 6:24pm
Quoting Dalek
So here I am backtesting my EA on my Win10 PC but there are no LONG trades, they are all short. It is not the settings so I check the EA on my other PC which is still WIN7 and it works fine with both long and short trades. The data is the same but I get different results. I have checked every setting on both MT4s but this is a solid consistent problem for this EA. Has anyone else ever seen this?
Dalek-
Click on Expert properties
Make sure the Positions popup is set to Long & Short.

Other than that are there any errors in the ST Journals tab when you run it?
  • #3
  • Jul 30, 2016 6:43pm Jul 30, 2016 6:43pm
I checked that and it is set to Long & Short. I tried running it it Long mode only and there were no trades. There are no errors either.
  • #4
  • Jul 30, 2016 6:56pm Jul 30, 2016 6:56pm
Quoting Dalek
I checked that and it is set to Long & Short. I tried running it it Long mode only and there were no trades. There are no errors either.
Dalek-
Then you will have to go through the code and find out why its not working.
  • #5
  • Jul 30, 2016 7:07pm Jul 30, 2016 7:07pm
Quoting cyber1
{quote} Dalek- Then you will have to go through the code and find out why its not working.
Yes, it certainly is weird. I think it might be something to do with the data. Will post when I have the solution.
  • #6
  • Aug 1, 2016 1:37am Aug 1, 2016 1:37am
I have got to the bottom of it and I am happy to say it was not Windows 10 and not the EA causing the problem. The reason was due to a reference to the daily price within the EA and I was running a backtest on an hourly time frame. My Windows 10 computer only had M1 & M60 data which was all I thought it needed.

This problem wont happen again, I downloaded a program call Period_converter_auto which creates the whole data set for higher time frames rather than use the one which comes as standard and only converts 1 tome frame.

Wouldn't it have been nice if strategy tester had written an error code to the journal when it tried to collect a price from a daily history file which wasn't there?
  • #7
  • Last Post: Aug 3, 2016 9:45am Aug 3, 2016 9:45am
I’ve had similar problems testing on different terminals and PCs. While loading the data for the test you will see above the loading line a short text appearing for a few seconds, for example: “Collecting M1 … Using M1…”. If something is not ok with the data, the strategy tester may use another timeframe if available and it will say something like “M1 not found… Collecting M5…” this may signal you that something is not ideal. Anyway, it would be much better if there was some message that remains in the journal because you just may not notice that text…
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