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What do you have in the file that you pass to MT4 ? This is mine . . notice the TestShutdownTerminal=true
Great! Thank you.
The missing TestShutdownTerminal=true was the problem. I hadn't found this anywhere in the help files.
Great! Thank you.
The missing TestShutdownTerminal=true was the problem. I hadn't found this anywhere in the help files.
You are welcome, it must be in the Help file somewhere, that is where I would have gotten it from ;-)
How do you prevent MT4 from popping up windows that either ask for your contact data in order to open a demo account or for your login data, when you log in with false login data?
I use false login data, because I don't need any information from my demo account. I just want to use my .hst and .fxt files. When running a series of backtests with a demo account, MT4 sometimes is unable to get certain data from the demo account and then the whole backtesting process comes to a halt. I.e. using a demo account prevents me from doing completely automatic backtests. Yet, with false login data the backtesting stops even more often: Usually MT4 pops up a window after the first backtest. As I can't close this window from a batch script or program, I am unable to do automatic backtesting.
How do you prevent MT4 from popping up windows that either ask for your contact data in order to open a demo account or for your login data, when you log in with false login data?
I use false login data, because I don't need any information from my demo account. I just want to use my .hst and .fxt files. When running a series of backtests with a demo account, MT4 sometimes is unable to get certain data from the demo account and then the whole backtesting process comes to a halt. I.e. using a demo account prevents me from doing completely automatic backtests. Yet, with false login data the backtesting stops even more often: Usually MT4 pops up a window after the first backtest. As I can't close this window from a batch script or program, I am unable to do automatic backtesting.
I haven't used the batch method for testing for some time, when I did I didn't experience the issue you are describing, maybe things have changed in more recent builds. Sorry, can't offer much useful help.
Have you tried setting AutoConfiguration ?
I haven't used the batch method for testing for some time, when I did I didn't experience the issue you are describing, maybe things have changed in more recent builds. Sorry, can't offer much useful help.
Have you tried setting AutoConfiguration ?
You made my day. Thanks a lot. If I write the login data into the configuration file (as opposed to storing them manually in MT4) and set AutoConfiguration to false, it works.
You made my day. Thanks a lot. If I write the login data into the configuration file (as opposed to storing them manually in MT4) and set AutoConfiguration to false, it works.
Hello,
I have couple rookie questions about configuration at startup and strategy tester:
1 question:
I want to test my EA with 10 variations of inputs. So I need to create:
1. 10 .set files with these variations (settings1.set, settings2.set,....)
2. 10 .txt files that specifies .set files (startupsetings1, startupsetings2,....)
3. and one .bat file with 10 lines in it: terminal.exe startupsetings1
terminal.exe startupsetings2
......................................
.......................................
Do I thinking right? And if I would like to test EA with 1000 variations, so I must create thousands of files? Or there are some other ways to atomate testing process or maybe creating these files?
2 question:
I have no success to saving test report files to specified location.
It is clear that this my line is not correct (.xls file):
TestReport=C:/Program Files/MetaTrader 4/tester/reports/EURUSD-21-11-2013
Could you help me with this?
3 question:
Could test reports be saved not in .htm, but in .txt ; .csv ; .xls formats?
Thank you
Hello,
I have couple rookie questions about configuration at startup and strategy tester:
1 question:
I want to test my EA with 10 variations of inputs. So I need to create:
1. 10 .set files with these variations (settings1.set, settings2.set,....)
2. 10 .txt files that specifies .set files (startupsetings1, startupsetings2,....)
3. and one .bat file with 10 lines in it: terminal.exe startupsetings1
terminal.exe startupsetings2
......................................
.......................................
Do I thinking right? And if I would like to test EA with 1000 variations, so I must create thousands of files? Or there are some other ways to atomate testing process or maybe creating these files?
2 question:
I have no success to saving test report files to specified location.
It is clear that this my line is not correct (.xls file):
TestReport=C:/Program Files/MetaTrader 4/tester/reports/EURUSD-21-11-2013
Could you help me with this?
3 question:
Could test reports be saved not in .htm, but in .txt ; .csv ; .xls formats?
Thank you
Great! Thank you.
The missing TestShutdownTerminal=true was the problem. I hadn't found this anywhere in the help files.
Hello
I notice that TestShutdownTerminal=true doesn't seem to work on the last MT4 build 745 .
Would you know how to solve this issue? Any turnaround ?
Thank you,