Real equity/drawdown

[Raptor93]

Hello all,

I run 12 accounts on MT4 platform with the same EA but with different options (lot, dimarti, time: H4, M5, M1 etc.) for some months and I would like to analyze the risk and compare the behavior of the accounts now.

I often see people post "equity" curves from the backtester and from real account showing only smooth lines and ignoring any drawdown between opening and closing a trade. Since MetaTrader only plots a new datapoint in the equity plot when a trade is closed, you simply can not get realistic plots. 

Do somebody can help me how can I get the real equity curve (incl. between opening and closing a trade)? Of course, in that case I will be able to calculate the real drawdown too. It would help me a lot in the risk management.

The performances of the accounts are quite similar, but when I checked the open positions (3-4 times/week) during this testing phase, I have seen big differences (e.g. one of them in a dedicated time had P/L floating: - 2000 USD (coming from more open trades) and the other had -6000 USD), but the end of the test the profits were almost the same (definitely the risk not...). 

Unfortunately I assume that it's not possible to get this information from the past, but I would appraciate if you would have a solution (maybe another EA?!) for this problem and I would be able to run my tests with better settings/options in the future.

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

[ShawnO McMahon]

Hi guys,
Can you tell what the feature "DiMarti" is related to and how it works?

I've purchased and EA and the instructions are to set it to "1.5" and yet I have no idea what the number relates too, I would much appreciate any responses with information to guide me more.

Thanks.