Expert not approved in automatic validation process

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Hello,

I've created an EA for an indicator in the marketplace. Since the indicator needs to be loaded manually onto the strategy tester chart sub window in order to work, it won't trade if it is run alone in the tester. The validation check returns the error that no trades were made. In order to try and get around that, the EA opens a trade at the first tick and closes it again on the second tick when run in the strategy tester, but it still doesn't get validated and the same error occur. Anyone knows how to solve this issue?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards,

Thomas

 

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Maxim Kuznetsov , 2018.12.07 08:47

I suspect that the EA is simply written in the old style, with the functions start () instead of OnTick ()


 

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Thanks Sergey. I get no errors in the Jounal and it's written with OnTick. Any other suggestions?
 
Thomas Hoegh Reisenhus:

Hello,

I've created an EA for an indicator in the marketplace. Since the indicator needs to be loaded manually onto the strategy tester chart sub window in order to work, it won't trade if it is run alone in the tester. The validation check returns the error that no trades were made. In order to try and get around that, the EA opens a trade at the first tick and closes it again on the second tick when run in the strategy tester, but it still doesn't get validated and the same error occur. Anyone knows how to solve this issue?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards,

Thomas

You have to embed the necessary indicator as a resource to the EA.

Then it's included in the ex4 file and can be used with the regular iCustom requests.

So your trading logic will get the necessary data and the EA will execute its trades.

 

Thank you for your suggestion Daniel, however the iCustom function is not used nor relevant in the EA algorithm. 


The EA does execute a single trade in the strategy tester when started, that's why I don't understand the error I get after trying to validate it: 


test on EURUSD,H1

there are no trading operations

test on NZDUSD,H1

there are no trading operations

test on GBPUSDcheck,M30

there are no trading operations

test on XAUUSDcheck,Daily

there are no trading operations

 
Someone have any other ideas?
 
Are you providing a static lot size for executing that trade ? 
 
Yes.
 
Try adding this on ontick .

int sim_tr=0;
int sim_lm=19000;
void OnTick()
  {
  
//---
int intester=MQLInfoInteger(MQL_TESTER);
//Simulation starts here 
if(intester==1) 
  {
  sim_tr++;
  if(sim_tr==sim_lm)
   {
   int mot=OrdersTotal();
   int cot=(int)AccountInfoInteger(ACCOUNT_LIMIT_ORDERS);
   
   double lot=MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_MINLOT);
   double pip=Point();
   int ilim=SymbolInfoInteger(Symbol(),SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVEL);
    double lim=ilim;
    lim=lim*2;
   double sl=600;
   if(sl<lim) sl=lim;
   double tp=5000;
   if(tp<lim) tp=lim*2;
   //check if margin is available
   //margin for one lot
   double mfol=MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_MARGINREQUIRED);
   //margin for min lot
   mfol=mfol*lot*2;
   if(mfol<AccountFreeMargin())
   {
   if(mot<cot) OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,lot,Ask,10,Ask-sl*Point(),Ask+tp*Point(),NULL,0,0,clrRed);
   }
   sim_tr=0;
   }
  }
//Simulation ends here 
}
 
Thanks a lot, will try it
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