Your experices with Auto Optimization in MT4?

[Talky_Zebra]

Hi - question for the crowd here:

It seems like about 10 years ago, batch or auto optimization (ie: something similar to this - https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1467) seemed to be the big up-and-coming thing.  Difficult to pull off, but some of the forum posts around that time were hopeful that it would improve performance of a strategy.

My own experimentation (so far only in backtest, admittedly) shows that it seems to have promise.

However, there seems to be a drop off in interest on the topic and not much in the way of code samples.  Why did interest in this dry up?

• Overfitting?
• Switching over to optimization/backtesting in MQL5?
• Neural networks replacing the traditional optimization/backtest?
• Or, just too difficult to do in practice?

I have run across some posts here and there indicating that some users were doing the batch testing, then switched away from it. 

What was your experience with it?

[Talky_Zebra]

Hi everyone, still curious about this question about auto optimization.  I realize I asked it during the holidays (when I had time off) so maybe it got lost in the shuffle of newer or more interesting posts.

If you have experience with it (good or bad) please share.