Mt4 - EA Optimization: Understanding the report

 

I am confused bet ween the 'Optimization Results' and the actual results. 

What I am doing is right click on the optimization results 'Set input parameters'. I am running the same Pair. Same time frame on a month old data(from Aug to Nov). But I am getting different results why? What am I missing?

See the attached images:

  1. Settings
  2. Optimization Result
  3. The Actual Results


I wonder why such a big difference? 


Profit factor from 690.55 to 3.84

Total trades from 14 to 18.


I assume Total net Profit in the report is the profit column in the optimization results which is changed from 53 to 2233.77.


Am I really using the same data/timeframe for both the

Files:
optimization.png  232 kb
report.png  191 kb
settings.png  37 kb