Automated Trading Language Documentation

Working with Optimization Results

Functions for organizing custom processing of the optimization results in the strategy tester. They can be called during optimization in testing agents, as well as locally in Expert Advisors and scripts.

When you run an Expert Advisor in the strategy tester, you can create your own data array based on the simple types or simple structures (they do not contain strings, class objects or objects of dynamic arrays). This data set can be saved using the FrameAdd() function in a special structure called a frame. During the optimization of an Expert Advisor, each agent can send a series of frames to the terminal. All the received frames are written in the file *.MQD in the folder terminal_directory/MQL5/Files/Tester expert named as the Expert Advisor. They are written in the order they are received from the agents. Receipt of a frame in the client terminal from a testing agent generates the TesterPass event.

Frames can be stored in the computer memory and in a file with the specified name. The MQL5 language sets no limitations on the number of frames.

See also

Testing Statistics, Properties of a Running MQL5 Program