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New article LifeHack for Traders: Indicators of Balance, Drawdown, Load and Ticks during Testing has been published:

How to make the testing process more visual? The answer is simple: you need to use one or more indicators in the Strategy Tester, including a tick indicator, an indicator of balance and equity, an indicator of drawdown and deposit load. This solution will help you visually track the nature of ticks, balance and equity changes, as well as drawdown and deposit load.

The "LifeHack Balance Equity" indicator visualizes how the trade account balance and equity are changing.

The LifeHack Balance Equity indicator

Author: Karputov Vladimir

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Where should the template file be? I can't get it to work. This worked on MT4 at one time.

[Vladimir Karputov]

Александр:
Where should the template file be? I can't get it to work. This worked on MT4 at one time.

The template needs to be created first. Quote from the article:

A general recipe for applying indicators in the tester:

1. Attach one of the LifeHack-series indicators to the chart.
2. Save the template as tester.tpl.
3. Run visual testing.

Also after attaching indicators you can run the script"chartsavetemplatetester_tpl.mq5" (attached at the end of the article).

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Okay. I create a template, save it. But I don't see the balance and equity indicators working during visual testing.

[Vladimir Karputov]

Александр:
Okay. I create a template, save it. But I don't see the balance and equity indicators working during visual testing.

What name do you create the template with? Show a screenshot of the template saving operation.

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tester.tpl

It says in the article.

where should it be?

[Vladimir Karputov]

Александр:

tester.tpl

It says in the article.

Are you sure you first sketch LifeHack-series indicators on the chart, and then save the template?

The general recipe for using indicators in the tester:

1. We attach one of the LifeHack-series indicators to the chart.
2. Save the template as tester.tpl.
3. Start visual testing.

In general, give screenshots, in detail, what you do....

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Everything worked. I went to the log of the visual tester and saw that there was an entry that the indicator should be recompiled, although there were absolutely no compilation errors initially. Perhaps the problem was in the compiler and not in the tester.

[Vladimir Karputov]

Comments not related to this topic have been moved to"Questions from MQL4 MT4 MetaTrader 4 Beginners".

[Elias Ramos]

Is it possible to make the indicator the same as the balance and equity chart from the strategy tester? Could you guide me if it's possible to do that?

[Elias Ramos]

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