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Check out the new article: Trading with the MQL5 Economic Calendar (Part 8): Optimizing News-Driven Backtesting with Smart Event Filtering and Targeted Logs.
In this article, we optimize our economic calendar with smart event filtering and targeted logging for faster, clearer backtesting in live and offline modes. We streamline event processing and focus logs on critical trade and dashboard events, enhancing strategy visualization. These improvements enable seamless testing and refinement of news-driven trading strategies.
The ability to visualize and analyze economic news events in both live and offline environments is a game-changer for us, and in this part of the series, we introduce a visual chronograph—a metaphor for our optimized event processing and logging system—that will empower us to navigate the temporal landscape of news-driven trading with precision and efficiency.
By implementing smart event filtering, we will drastically reduce the computational load in the Strategy Tester, pre-selecting only the most relevant news events within a user-defined date range, which ensures that backtesting mirrors the speed and clarity of live trading. This filtering mechanism, akin to a chronograph’s precise timekeeping, will allow us to focus on critical events without sifting through irrelevant data, enabling seamless transitions between historical simulations and real-time market analysis.
Complementing this, our targeted logging system will act as the chronograph’s display, presenting only essential information—such as trade executions and dashboard updates—while suppressing extraneous logs, thus maintaining a clean, distraction-free interface for both live and offline modes. This dual-mode visualization capability will ensure we can test strategies with historical data in the Strategy Tester and apply the same intuitive dashboard in live trading, fostering a unified workflow that enhances decision-making and strategy refinement across all market conditions. Here is a visualization of what we aim to achieve.
Author: Allan Munene Mutiiria