You should test it with real ticks. MT4's Every Tick test mode is not sufficient and may produce too good results. Either use a tick test tool for MT4
or convert your EA to MQL5 because under MT5 you have real ticks in tester.
Chukwudi Joshua Obiekwe:
i discovered that after programming a scalper EA in mt4,it does wonderful in back test but on forward test it doesn't work well
pls can someone suggest what i can do,thanks
Hi, scalper EA needs very high precision data and it is hard to backtest also this kind EA is very sensitive to market changes. Regards Greg

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i discovered that after programming a scalper EA in mt4,it does wonderful in back test but on forward test it doesn't work well
pls can someone suggest what i can do,thanks