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My EA is designed for M15. The automated test on D1 causes log overflow. Can you test on M15 or accept manual backtest results
 
Ibrahim Nasif Naiem: My EA is designed for M15. The automated test on D1 causes log overflow. Can you test on M15 or accept manual backtest results is exclusively designed for.

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Discussion of article "The checks a trading robot must pass before publication in the Market"

Fernando Carreiro, 2025.08.24 00:37

It has already been stated here on this topic and in the Market rules, that you are not allowed to limit your EA in any way, not even to any particular symbol or time-frame. It must be able to operate with any and all symbols or time-frames, even if it is designed for specific trading environment in particular. Your EA must be coded to adjust to different contract specifications and broker conditions irrespectively.

The EA does not need to be profitable during validation tests, but it must operate normally (without errors and open positions) on any symbol and timeframe.


 

My EA passes EURUSD H1 test successfully (1660 trades). The XAUUSD D1 test generates 2+ GB log files due to the volume of tick data — this is a platform limitation, not a code issue. Can they validate based on the EURUSD test results? test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) strategy tester report 1660 total trades test on XAUUSD,D1 (netting) log files size exceeded 2140 MB, test terminated

 

Inside your EA, can't you add something like if current period is not PERIOD_M15.

Then simply return. So that even users can only use M15. If you are not supporting H1 anyways.

 
the problem not from the EA its from the testing that are done here on the system to validate (The XAUUSD D1 test generates 2+ GB log files due to the volume of tick data )
 
Ibrahim Nasif Naiem #:
the problem not from the EA its from the testing that are done here on the system to validate (The XAUUSD D1 test generates 2+ GB log files due to the volume of tick data )

Sorry I'm not an mql5 programmar, just general C/C++. I was just trying to help with an easy way. I don't think they might change their system over supporting devs to choose just 1 timeframe.
Easier way might be for devs to code it that way inside their EA :)

 
Ibrahim Nasif Naiem #: My EA passes EURUSD H1 test successfully (1660 trades). The XAUUSD D1 test generates 2+ GB log files due to the volume of tick data — this is a platform limitation, not a code issue. Can they validate based on the EURUSD test results? test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) strategy tester report 1660 total trades test on XAUUSD,D1 (netting) log files size exceeded 2140 MB, test terminated

The "log file size exceeded" error is caused by what the EA writes to the log during testing. Two possible sources are: 1) Print() calls on every tick and 2) the occurrence of repeated errors. Therefore, this is an issue to be addressed within the EA itself, rather than a platform limitation. The log overflow is actually a symptom of something failing (likely silently) on the XAUUSD D1.

Log files size exceeded 2048 MB, test terminated

Make sure you do not generate too many prints in your code

You need to remove or add conditions to any per-tick Print() calls to fix the log overflow.
 
now fixed many thanks , appreciated .
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