TESTERPAD FOR TESTING YOUR STRATEGIES AND INDICATORS IN THE TEST STRATEGY TESTER

TESTERPAD

This utility is designed to manually test your strategies in the strategy tester.

Convenient and complete functionality for testing trading skills is now available in the strategy tester.

The program has a single code and is suitable for terminals MT4 and MT5.

Management of positions and orders, trailing stop, stoploss, takeprofit, lots, installation and removal of pending orders, construction of the order grid. Trade in Indicators

Control

To use this panel, you must load the Tester of Strategies in your terminal. Rendering mode.

General concepts: The advisor reacts to pressing the buttons only on the arrival of a tick. Choosing the quotation speed, keep in mind that the EA will respond to the presses only after the new tick appears on the screen.

Since you can not use the input field in the strategy tester, you can adjust the digital levels using the + and -

The panel contains 2 tabs for trading:

Managing the speed of the simulator

A new unit that allows you to control the speed of the simulator on the current chart.

This unit is relevant for the MT4 terminal, but in MT5 it will not be superfluous

control unit and control the speed of the quotes and the speed of testing. 
The speed is divided into 10 values. These values depend on the standard speed of the strategy tester in the terminal. 
1 - Slow, 10 - Fast! 
Added PAUSE button - you can pause testing and operation of the simulator. 
Added CheckBox and the ability to set a pause after opening a position (activation of a pending order, opening a new position) or closing positions.

If the position has been opened or closed, the simulator automatically pauses. To continue the work of the simulator, press the START button!

The  Positions tab

This tab is designed to work with positions.

• Reverse - Flips the current positions. If there are several positions, the adviser turns all the positions, changing their type. Buy >> Sell and Sell >> Buy. In this case stoploss and takeprofit is also installed.
• Lock - Lock current positions. If there are several positions, the adviser calculates the lot for locking and opens a position that locks all other positions. Stoploss and takeprofit in this case is modified to 0.
• TrailingStop - Trailing Stop position. Trailing stop is turned on only when the TrailingStop value field is greater than 0. In the TrailingStop field you specify the trailing stop distance.
• Sell ​​- Open a position for sale
• Buy - Open a position to buy
• Lots - Select the amount of the position to open. The step of changing the lot depends on the step in the contract specification.
• Close Sell - Close all SELL items
• Close Buy - Close all BUY positions
• Close All - Closes all positions
• Stoploss - a field for entering the value of stoploss in points. If the value is 0, stop loss is not set. For ease of use on 5-digit quotations, the increment step is 10 pips.
• TakeProfit - a field for entering the value of take-profit in points. At a value of 0 - the take-profit is not set. For ease of use on 5-digit quotations, the increment step is 10 pips.
• Modify - Button for immediate modification of the current stop loss values ​​and take-profit at all positions.

Orders tab

This tab is designed to work with pending orders.

Sell ​​STOP \ LIMIT- Opens a sell order

Buy STOP \ LIMIT- Opening a buy order

Lots - Select the amount of the position to open. The step of changing the lot depends on the step in the contract specification.

Delete Sell STOP \ LIMIT- Close all orders SELL STOP \ LIMIT

Delete Buy STOP \ LIMIT- Closes all BUY STOP \ LIMIT orders

Stoploss - a field for entering the value of stoploss in points. If the value is 0, stop loss is not set. For ease of use on 5-digit quotations, the increment step is 10 pips.

TakeProfit - a field for entering the value of take-profit in points. At a value of 0 - the take-profit is not set. For ease of use on 5-digit quotations, the increment step is 10 pips.

Grid - the field for entering the number of pending orders in the form of a grid

Distance - The distance from the current price to the pending order. The order setting level and the distance between the order grid

Open deals table

This block shows the current open positions.

This block is also relevant for the MT4 terminal, but it will also be useful for MT5.

Block output table of open transactions and positions. This block allows you to monitor current positions without reference to the terminal 
report. By default, this block is hidden, you can activate it by clicking on the corresponding arrow!

EAPADPRO Control panel

All other tabs and controls belong to our universal  EAPADPRO

Example of using a manual strategy tester

Loading Indicators in the Strategy Tester

You can also upload your indicators and template for trading in the Strategy Tester.

In mt4 this is done directly on the visualization chart. In normal mode, you transfer the necessary indicators from the navigator to the tester's chart.

In mt5 this is done differently:

1. Open a regular standard chart
2. Put on it all the necessary indicators and configure them.
3. On the chart where the indicators are installed, right-click - Templates - Save Templates
4. In the strategy tester on the visualization graph in the top menu Charts - Templates - Load Templates

Afterword

Thank you for reading the article to the end. You can download my strategy tester in the Files section!

          

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