Backtesting After Hours EA Freezes Immediately After First Trade
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If strategy tester works when market is open and doesn’t when market is closed, check your spread settings. if it’s set to use current, then it may fail. Try plugging in a spread value and test from there. Also, you may be using broker data and perhaps its not downloading at that time due to connectivity. Try downloading good tick data. I use tickstory.com
My bad. I just re-read your post. You tried everything I mentioned.
Do you have another broker to test on? Perhaps its the specific broker.
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I'm really confused. My EA runs just fine using Strategy Tester during trading hours. No hangups at all.
But after hours when backtesting offline, it has problems.
I figured out part of the problem in that the larger spread after hours was interfering with my stop loss and take profit values. Once I adjusted for that, the first order goes through without an error.
But the script itself stops running immediately after confirming the first trade. It just freezes up, and when I manually stop it, it takes 5-10 seconds to stop.
I thought the problem might be my broker's data, so I tried installing <Deleted>, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
Any ideas?