Discussion of article "How to analyze the trades of the Signal selected in the chart"

[MetaQuotes]

New article How to analyze the trades of the Signal selected in the chart has been published:

The trade Signals service develops in leaps and bounds. Trusting our funds to a signal provider, we would like to minimize the risk of losing our deposit. So how to puzzle out in this forest of trade signals? How to find the one that would produce profits? This paper proposes to create a tool for visually analyzing the history of trades on trade signals in a symbol chart.

Having compiled the indicator, we will only need upload to the terminal chart the statistics of the selected signal and attach our indicator to one of the charts. Now we can study and analyze trades. There is a finer point: We have not filtered the charts for analysis in our program. Therefore, the indicator will collect statistics from all charts opened in the terminal. In order to avoid mixing the indicator trades with any other trades in the terminal, I recommend to close all charts before loading the signal trade history.

You can find attached the complete code of the program.

Author: Dmitriy Gizlyk

[Stan Baftalovskiy]

MetaQuotes Software Corp.:

Published article How to analyse trades of the selected Signal on the chart:

Author: Dmitriy Gizlyk

Cool and relevant article!

At the same time, of course, it is impossible not to notice that all this mess with collecting trades from charts is relevant only for MT5 signals with netting system of position accounting: for such signals in the 'History' on the signal page there is information about positions with aggregation of trades, which makes it impossible to analyse the history through Strategy Tester (unlike quite representative history of signals of strategies on MT4 and hedging strategies on MT5).

Accordingly, the publication of this article is a good reason to remind MQ managers responsible for the development of the MQL-Signals service that the set of software functions for obtaining information about signals is significantly outdated and needs to be updated, and in particular, to include the function of obtaining the entire history of transactions for a single signal.

[Vasily Belozerov]

Well, how is this development better than any simple balance and funds indicator? Are we inventing for the process, not for the result? Is the price chart separate from the indicator chart? It is not convenient at all. What is the purpose of this indicator? To learn the tactics of a successful trader? I have eight different methods for the pound on eight demo accounts with the original system of copying on one real account. Never calculate any of the methods!