Closing Orders in Strategy Tester when testing a Binary Options EA: how to?

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Hi.

I'm a Binary Options EA developer, but I can't test them properly in MT4's Strategy Tester because of some problems when closing BO orders. I always get some kind of error like "tester cannot calculate prices".

The point here is that I suppose that MT4 is not a BO-oriented tool, and so what I've done is simulating a Forex order from a BO order. I mean: EA detects if in testing, and if so I close BO orders once the expiration time for the option arrives. I close this bo order with OrderClose, of course. I've tried to close orders with Ask price, Bid price and Close[0] price but nothing seems to work.

One more thing only: when testing BO EAs I'm trying to use the "xxxxxx.bo" instruments instead of regular "xxxxxx" instruments (xxxxxx=EURUSD, EURGBP, USDJPY, and so on). But if I use the regular instruments with this simulation everything works.

Any idea out there about how to do this?

Thank you so much!

Bruno 

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That will not work you can't use OrderSend(), OrderClose() functions in the Strategy Tester with Binary Options instrument.

You need to completely simulate your trade within your EA.

 
zirkoner:

That will not work you can't use OrderSend(), OrderClose() functions in the Strategy Tester with Binary Options instrument.

You need to completely simulate your trade within your EA.

How do I learn how to program an EA (robot) that will work with Binary Options?   

What brokers allow it?   US Citizen friendly.

What programming language do you use?  Can I do it in MQL4 ?

I can find no answers on Google. 

 
I had the same problem. I added an expiry time into the EA for open orders.This allowed me to back test. It wasn't 100% accurate as back test can't have zero spread, but gives you an idea.
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