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Backtester not using whole history data?

I hope you can help me understanding why the backtester does not use the whole available historical data? My system works on the German 30 (DAX). In order to have a lot of historical data, I downloaded and converted the data from Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^GDAXI The System I am

Starting strategy tester through command line parameters?

Is there a possibility to start a backtest from the command line? Something like "terminal.exe -tester EAxyz EURUSD 5min 2000.01.01 2010.01.01" ? Any other idea, how I could start a backtest from outside? I want to use external programs that start different backtests automaticaly. But I have not

No candle if open = close ?

Is it only me or do the others also have the same problem? When the open price equals the close price, the candle won't be drawn at all (see attached picture). It's MetaTrader 4 Build 226. This not only happens in daily chart, but also in other timeframes

Converting time / price to pixel coordinates on objects

I need someones help, because I am stuck since a few hours now with the following task: A graphical object is attached to a chart - an arrow in this case. This object needs a time and a price as coordinate. Now I wanna convert the time and price coordinate into a pixel based coordinate. Any idea how

Returning arrays in Functions

Hi, I came accross the following problem: In my indicator I use two different libraries and now I want to exchange data between those libraries. I have my indicator main file, and then there are libraries A and B. Library A makes some calculations and saves the result in a global array of integers