Account owner's name in strategy tester

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Hi,

Is there any way to retrieve the account owner's name in the Strategy Tester when testing EAs?


Running AccountInfoString (ACCOUNT_NAME) in the Strategy Tester returns "Tester" instead of the account owner's name.  I'm running MT5 2361.


Thanks




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Luca De Andrea #:
Same question 

What to do ?

No it's not possible, the MT5 Strategy Tester is completely isolated from the "live" account environment.

 
Alain Verleyen #:

What to do ?

No it's not possible, the MT5 Strategy Tester is completely isolated from the "live" account environment.

Not exactly so. If a user run an optimization, it's possible to obtain live account credentials in OnTesterInit and add an input parameter with them via ParametersSetRange.

 
Stanislav Korotky #:

Not exactly so. If a user run an optimization, it's possible to obtain live account credentials in OnTesterInit and add an input parameter with them via ParametersSetRange.

And what is a valid reason to do this ?

I don't see one so I didn't want to say here how to do it, which you did.

 
Alain Verleyen #:

And what is a valid reason to do this ?

I don't see one so I didn't want to say here how to do it, which you did.

Why not say it?
 
Dominik Egert #:
Why not say it?
Say what ?
 
Alain Verleyen #:

And what is a valid reason to do this ?

I don't see one so I didn't want to say here how to do it, which you did.

I don't know the reason, just the question. If it applies to optimization (which is just my speculation), then I can imagine a scenario that a developer could want to limit possibility of optimization only for predefined user. Then it's suffice to check this matter in OnTesterInit and abort optimization on mismatch - but probably OP did not distinguish the helper EA instance (actually running in the terminal) from EAs being optimized on the tester agents - so he asked about the tester. But actual requirements can be different - I know other people's requirements can look strange, but recognizing them may be illuminative sometimes (even if it's not this time). ;-)

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