Is MT4 optimization a random and inaccurate way to test multiple inputs? - page 2

 

Hello!

I just realised that when I use smaller time scopes, the optimization results now match perfectly with the regular backtesting results when the same inputs are used. Upon creating this post, my optimization and testing period was 14 years on H1 timeframe. Now when I used apx 15 months as the time scope on H1, the optimization results match exactly with the regular backtesting results. That's what I was hoping to achieve. Perhaps it was the excessively long optimization scope that messed the results up in some way.

Anyway thank you guys for participating in the discussion. I have gained several useful ideas to implement in the near future.

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