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I bactested my expert advisor which is based purely on price action strategy. It show great results between 1999 - 2007 but failed badly between 2007 - 2010. I tried & tested every year, capital size, lot size and other possible ways that I know

I created a very, very simple expert advisor with a very simple strategy. I have run several backtests on few brokers with no error. However, when I run demo or forward test on broker FXOpen (ECN Demo Server), it show some comment which I cannot

I find it hard to decide an optimal setting from the result of an optimization. Could anyone please tell me which is the best to choose from an optimization result , the lowest drawdown , the profit factor or any other thing that I should consider

Is there any documentation on MetaTrader 4 Strategy Tester limitations? I'm optimizing a combination of more than 10496 in the Strategy Tester, does it mean that optimization stop after 10496? What actually happen to the combinations after 10496

Hi All, I'm a newbie & kind of confused by the snippet below. Could anyone explain what is actually the 'shift' or it's exact function in simple explanation? int shift = 1; double x1 = iCustom(NULL, 0,"iX", 1, 2, 3, 4, 1 , shift );