EA Testing - What are passes in optimization?

 
What are passes?
 
ReillyFox:
What are passes?

Read the documentation on the Strategy Tester!

Strategy Testing - Auto Trading - MetaTrader 4 Help
Strategy Testing - Auto Trading - MetaTrader 4 Help
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The terminal allows not only write expert advisors, but also test them before using. This useful function allows to check operativeness and...
 
I just did and the mt5 article had nothing to say about what passes are
 
ReillyFox:
I just did and the mt5 article had nothing to say about what passes are

Read a little more further on in the sections about optimisations:

Expert Optimization - Auto Trading - MetaTrader 4 Help
Expert Optimization - Auto Trading - MetaTrader 4 Help
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Optimization represents successive passes of the same expert advisor with different inputs on the same data. At that, such parameters can be sorted...
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