Testing an EA in strategy tester

[Michael]

What options does one have if their strategy is based on objects drawn on the chart?

See this link: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1512.
Quote: "Draw objects are not really set. The objects are disabled in order to accelerate the testing."

So I can't backtest my strategy?

[blogzr3]

For those objects to be drawn, there must be rules on how they are drawn.

If the drawing is visual/manual, then the challenge is translating those visual rules into code which can then be backtested.

[Michael]

blogzr3 wrote >>
For those objects to be drawn, there must be rules on how they are drawn.

If the drawing is visual/manual, then the challenge is translating those visual rules into code which can then be backtested.

...And that's what I'm trying to figure out. Got any ideas?

[jigen daisuke]

I am looking for the same thing as the one in MT4 where you can manually add objects/indicators during back testing. I read that MT5 opted for speed over functionality is a very poor and bad decision for the platform. I suppose back testing is to be used not only for speed testing EAs but for strategy as well in which case you don't need speed if you're manually testing a strategy. 

I hope MetaTrader would consider adding this feature since it's already in MT4