EdgityCore — Demo Version Guide

EdgityCore — Demo Version Guide

You have downloaded an EdgityCore Demo Version from the MQL5 Marketplace and attached it to a chart. This guide explains exactly how the Demo behaves, what you can evaluate with it, what you cannot, and how to use it well before deciding whether to buy the full version.

"Can I judge this methodology honestly before I spend money on it?"

That is the question the Demo Version exists to answer, and this guide shows you how to answer it.

This is not a feature list, an input reference or a user manual. Those documents exist separately and are linked at the end. This guide is only about the Demo.

What the Demo Version Is

The Demo Version is a version of an EdgityCore Indicator that lets you evaluate the methodology before you buy. You see the same signals, the same chart drawings, the same Statistics Panel and the same workflow as in the full version. The difference is limited and deliberate, and it is described in full in this guide.

The Demo is built on one principle: a trader should be able to judge a methodology objectively before committing to it. It is not a trailer or a shortened sample. It is a working indicator that you can study, test and question.

With the Demo you can:

• understand the methodology: see what the indicator looks for and how it describes every signal;
• observe signal generation: watch signals form, historically and live;
• become familiar with the interface: the layout of the chart, the Statistics Panel and the Current Signal Panel, and the location of the controls;
• evaluate historical performance: measure how the strategy would have behaved over a period you choose;
• learn the complete workflow: so that, if you buy the full version, nothing about it is new to you.

What Is Included

The Demo includes the two modes that every EdgityCore Indicator has.

	Quant Analysis Mode	Trading Mode
Purpose	Study the strategy over a historical period	Watch signals form on the current broker day
In the Demo	Available	Available for observing signals

In both modes you can see the signals the indicator generates, with their entry, Stop Loss and profit levels. In Quant Analysis Mode you can also read the Statistics Panel. Each mode is explained in its own section below.

What Is Intentionally Limited

In the Demo, trading functionality is intentionally unavailable. The Demo is for evaluating the methodology, not for trading with it.

The reason is simple. The question a prospective buyer needs answered is "Does this methodology work, and do I understand it?" Both are answered by the signals and by the statistics of the strategy itself. Neither requires the indicator to support your trading.

What You Can Evaluate

• The signals. Every signal is drawn with its entry, Stop Loss and profit levels. You can scroll through them, inspect them and judge whether they make sense to you.
• The historical behaviour of the strategy. Quant Analysis Mode measures how the signals would have performed over the period you choose.
• The risk profile. Drawdown, losing streaks and the other measures in the Statistics Panel show how uncomfortable the strategy can be, not only how profitable.
• Live signal generation. Trading Mode shows how new signals appear and progress today.
• The interface and workflow. You become familiar with the interface layout, the location of the controls and the workflow, and how the pieces fit together.

What You Cannot Evaluate

• Trading with the indicator. Because trading functionality is unavailable, you cannot use the Demo to take and manage trades, and you cannot see your own trading results measured against the signals.
• Exported reports. The Demo does not generate reports (see Reports in the Demo).
• Your own future results. No indicator, Demo or full, can show these. Signals and statistics describe how a strategy behaved, not how you will trade it, and past behaviour is not a guarantee of future results.

Note also that Quant Analysis Mode statistics never include, in the Demo or the full version: your lot size, your account balance, commissions, swaps, spread and slippage. They describe the strategy, not an account.

Reports in the Demo

The report buttons are visible in the Demo interface so that you can become familiar with where they are and how the full workflow is laid out. In the Demo, report generation is not available: clicking a report button does nothing, and no file is produced. This is expected behaviour, not a fault in your installation or your settings.

Report generation is available in the full version. In the Demo, the Statistics Panel remains the primary tool for reviewing the results of the historical analysis.

Using the Controls in the Strategy Tester

The Demo has several interactive controls on the chart. They are used in both modes. Examples include:

• Mode: QUANT / Mode: TRADING, which switches between the two modes;
• Open | Close Strategy Panel;
• Open | Close Current Signal Panel;
• All Signals / Latest Only, on the Current Signal Panel in Trading Mode.

When the replay speed of the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester is set very high, clicking one of these controls may appear to do nothing. The controls themselves work correctly. MetaTrader is updating the chart so rapidly that mouse clicks are not always processed.

This is a consequence of how the Strategy Tester handles mouse interaction at high replay speed. It is not a defect of the indicator, and it does not mean that the installation has failed.

To use a control:

1. Temporarily reduce the replay speed of the Strategy Tester.
2. Click the control. It responds normally.
3. Increase the replay speed again to continue.

Quant Analysis Mode in the Demo

Quant Analysis Mode is the best place to begin. It is the historical research mode: you choose a period, and the indicator finds every signal its rules would have produced in that period, follows each one to its outcome and summarises the results. EdgityCore - Understanding Quant Analysis Mode explains the mode in full.

The Statistics Panel Starts at Zero

When Quant Analysis Mode begins, the Statistics Panel naturally starts with zero analysed signals. This is not an error, and nothing is missing.

The panel is not a pre-loaded report. It is a live representation of the analysis process. As the indicator scans the historical data, each signal it detects is analysed with the programmed methodology, and the statistics are updated continuously. You can watch the numbers grow as the analysis advances: the number of entries, the outcomes, the Win Rate, the Net Points and the rest.

Once the values stop changing, the historical analysis has completed, and the panel shows the result for your chosen period.

How Long the Analysis Takes

The time needed depends on several factors:

• Available historical data. The more history your broker provides for the symbol and timeframe, the more there is to analyse.
• The selected instrument. Instruments differ in how many bars and how many signals they produce.
• The timeframe. A lower timeframe holds many more bars for the same period.
• The chosen date range. A longer period takes longer than a short one.
• The strategy configuration. Sessions, filters and trade management settings change how many signals are found and evaluated.

There is therefore no single figure for how long it takes. The same indicator can finish quickly on one chart and take longer on another.

The analysis is repeated whenever something that affects the results changes, such as the dates, the sessions or the trade management settings. The statistics then restart from zero and build up again. That is expected.

Getting Reliable Numbers

• Make sure your chart has enough history for the period you want to study. The indicator can only analyse the bars your broker provides.
• Check the Start date and End date if a number looks wrong. A signal outside the date range is left out.
• Treat a result as meaningful only when it rests on a reasonable number of signals. A few signals prove very little, whatever the percentages say.

Trading Mode in the Demo

Quant Analysis Mode exists to analyse the historical behaviour of the methodology. Trading Mode exists to observe how the same methodology behaves in the current market. It is the live, day-by-day mode of the indicator. EdgityCore - Understanding Trading Mode explains it in full.

In the Demo, you can observe live signal generation exactly as it works in the full version. The indicator monitors the current broker day and marks each new signal on the chart as it forms. When this guide refers to today while you use the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, it means the broker date currently being replayed.

You can open the Current Signal Panel to watch new signals appear and follow their lifecycle. (If the control does not respond, see Using the Controls in the Strategy Tester.) Each signal has a status:

Status	What it means
OPEN	The signal is still fresh.
ACTIVE	The moment to take it as a new trade has passed, but the signal has not finished.
CLOSED	The signal has finished.

Watching signals move through these statuses over a few days teaches you how the strategy behaves in real time: how often signals appear, how long they last and how they end.

In Trading Mode the Current Signal Panel also has two buttons, All Signals and Latest Only, which choose whether the chart draws every signal or only the latest open signal. The panel also has a LIVE TRADES section. Because trading functionality is unavailable in the Demo, there are no trades of yours to list: the section reads No live trades. and its Export Trade History button has nothing to export, like the report buttons (see Reports in the Demo). In the Strategy Tester the All Signals / Latest Only choice is not saved between runs.

Trading Functionality Is Unavailable

Because this is the Demo Version, trading functionality is intentionally unavailable. You observe the signals; you do not trade them through the indicator.

This does not stop you from evaluating the methodology. Every judgement you need to make before buying is available without it:

• whether the signals are clear and make sense to you;
• how they appear and progress on the chart;
• how the strategy performed historically, in Quant Analysis Mode;
• what the workflow and the panels look like.

How to Evaluate the Indicator Before Purchasing

A sound evaluation answers four questions. The Demo is built to let you answer each of them.

1. Do I understand it? Can you explain, in your own words, why a signal appears where it does? Study several signals on the chart until the logic is clear.
2. Does it suit my style? Look at how often signals appear, how far the Stop Loss is from the entry and how long a signal takes to resolve. A methodology can be sound and still not suit you.
3. How has it behaved? Use Quant Analysis Mode over a long period and more than one market. Look beyond Net Points: read the drawdown and the losing streaks in the Statistics Panel.
4. Can I live with the worst case? Every strategy has bad stretches. The drawdown and losing-streak figures show how bad they were. Decide whether you could have stayed with it.

Evaluate honestly. A good result in the Demo is not a promise, and a poor result on one market is not a verdict on another. The aim is an informed decision, not a confirmation of what you hoped to see.

Suggested Evaluation Workflow

The two modes answer two different questions, and the order matters: understand the past before evaluating the present.

1. Begin with Quant Analysis Mode. It shows how the methodology has behaved.
2. Analyse a meaningful historical period. Choose a period long enough to contain a reasonable number of signals, and let the analysis finish.
3. Review the Statistics Panel. Read the number of signals, the Win Rate, the Profit Factor, the drawdown and the losing streaks.
4. Experiment with different configurations. Change one setting at a time and compare the results.
5. Finally, switch to Trading Mode. Observe the same methodology in today's market, and compare the live behaviour with the historical evidence you have already analysed.

Getting the Most from the Demo

1. Start in Quant Analysis Mode. It gives you the broadest view of the methodology in the shortest time.
2. Allow the historical scan to complete. Wait until the values in the Statistics Panel stop changing before you read them.
3. Review the Statistics Panel. Start with the number of signals, then Win Rate, Profit Factor, Net Points, Drawdown and the losing streaks.
4. Observe Trading Mode to understand live signal generation. Open the Current Signal Panel and watch signals move from OPEN to CLOSED.
5. Compare different instruments, sessions and configurations. Change one setting at a time, so you know what caused a difference.
6. Become familiar with the interface and the workflow before you decide on the full version, so that you know exactly what you are choosing.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Statistics Panel shows zeros. Is the Demo broken?
No. When Quant Analysis Mode begins, the panel starts with zero analysed signals and fills in as the indicator scans the history. See The Statistics Panel Starts at Zero.

The numbers keep changing. Which ones are final?
The ones you see once the values stop changing. Until then, the analysis is still running.

How long does the analysis take?
It depends on the available history, the instrument, the timeframe, the date range and the strategy configuration. There is no fixed duration.

Why do I see different numbers after I changed a setting?
The analysis restarts whenever something that affects the results changes. The panel always reflects your current settings.

I clicked a button on the chart and nothing happened. Is the Demo broken?
No. If the Strategy Tester is replaying at a very high speed, MetaTrader may not process the click. Temporarily reduce the replay speed, click the control, then increase the speed again. See Using the Controls in the Strategy Tester.

I clicked a report button and nothing happened. Is something wrong?
No. The report buttons are visible so that you can become familiar with the interface, but report generation is not available in the Demo. It is available in the full version. This is independent of the replay-speed behaviour described in Using the Controls in the Strategy Tester: report buttons do nothing in the Demo at any replay speed.

Why can I not trade with the Demo?
Trading functionality is intentionally unavailable in the Demo. The Demo is for evaluating the methodology, which does not require it.

Does the Demo detect signals differently from the full version?
No. The Demo uses the same detection methodology as the full version. The limitations of the Demo concern the functionality available to you, such as trading and report generation. They do not concern how signals are detected or analysed.

Can I rely on the Demo's statistics to predict my results?
No. They show how the strategy behaved under fixed rules over the period you chose. They exclude your lot size, account, commissions, swaps, spread and slippage, and past behaviour is not a guarantee of future results.

What should I do first?
Switch to Quant Analysis Mode (use the Mode button described in Using the Controls in the Strategy Tester), choose a period, let the analysis finish and read the Statistics Panel.

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