Can I test 2 EA together in same strategy tester in one terminal? - page 2

[Keith Watford]

Harry Chung #:

Maybe I have to mention that I know we can run many terminal together, but because of some other issue I want to run them together in a same terminal and I want to test them together at first. 

i have 1 ea calculate the entry point for trades and 1 other ea running trailing stop so i want to backtest them with same chart who can do it

Thank you in advance and best wishes,

The answer has already been given.

iRick #:
It would be possible if the EAs were re-written into one EA that trades both strategies... although you'd still only be able to test over one currency pair

[Fernando Carreiro]

Harry Chung #: Maybe I have to mention that I know we can run many terminal together, but because of some other issue I want to run them together in a same terminal and I want to test them together at first. 

i have 1 ea calculate the entry point for trades and 1 other ea running trailing stop so i want to backtest them with same chart who can do it. Thank you in advance and best wishes,

You can't test two EAs at the same time. There is no way around that. Instead combine the logic of the two EAs and make it one EA.

[agontsarukj]

Hello, thinking outside the box - what I do; is do a csv download of your run results - and you can manipulate data in excel and create a timeline chart of performance of each on a single chart - from that you are able to determine approximate draw down potential against your growing/downgrading account - and how these advisors correlate against each other at any one time.

[Juan Guirao]

agontsarukj #:
Hello, thinking outside the box - what I do; is do a csv download of your run results - and you can manipulate data in excel and create a timeline chart of performance of each on a single chart - from that you are able to determine approximate draw down potential against your growing/downgrading account - and how these advisors correlate against each other at any one time.

This, to me, is the best answer to this question.  

[bogdaiki]

I'm struggling with the same dilema.

The reasons are:

- The EA I designed and coded is taking profits (or stops losses) based on percentages (equity versus balance);

- It also ads trades of increased volume;

- If say there are 2 running losing Buys and the next is a Sell, it will be sold at an increased volume - here's where I need to separate Buys and Sells so that they start and increase at the same level;

- The only way is to run Buys only on one chart and Sells on another;

- Since profit is taken when a certain percentage is reached, I'm not sure how the 2 separate instances with different magic numbers would close trades - can be all, or just one side;

- I also want to test the max drawdown, so they need to run simultaneously;

- This can be done live, but not in testing mode;

- The Excel file is a good idea - although... would anyone have a template showing how to combine multiple results and draw a graph / chart?

Thank you all for the gread topic. Maybe @MT5 will think of adding this functionality.

[bogdaiki]

I think we might have a winner! Check this out ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPFM0RRAadg

"Combine Multiple MT5 Backtests with the Free TradeBuddy - Multi Strategy Portfolio Analysis"

It misses the Equity line, but still good to figure out the outcome of combined tests.

Thanks @René Balke for creating and sharing this for free! ► https://www.mql5.com/en/users/bmtrading/seller