Increase EA Back Test Speed

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How can we increase EA back test speed? How much time usually EA should take to complete back test on one year historical data?
 

  1. EAs : Don't do per tick that you can do per bar, or on open.
    If you are waiting for a level, don't reevaluate, wait until price reaches it (or a new bar starts, and you recalculate.)
    If you are waiting for an order to close, only look when OrdersTotal (or MT5 equivalent) has changed.
              How to get backtesting faster ? - MT4 - MQL4 programming forum (2017)

  2. Indicators: Code it properly so it only recomputes bar zero (after the initial run.)
              How to do your lookbacks correctly. (2016)
    Or, reduce Tools → Options (control+O) → Charts → Max bars in chart to something reasonable (like 1K.)

 
This article is not useful. as results will be differ if I do test per bar or on open price. My EA can open and close lots of trades when hit by TP in single bar in case there is heavy fluctuation in price. Is there any other way to get back testing faster?
 
Saurabh #:  lots of trades when hit by TP

What part of “waiting for a level” was unclear to you?

 
William Roeder #:

What part of “waiting for a level” was unclear to you?

It's not cleared to me. Do I need to make changes in code for same?

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