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How does MT4 tester considers the spread? Say I've inserted a 2 pips spread in the tester - does it adds 2 pips to Bid rates? does it perform the test as if the spread is 0 and subtract the 2 pips value from the P&L? TX  

Hi all I'm back-testing an EA using Tickstory data, latest MT4 build and with M5 period in the tester. I use iRSI for 2 periods - M5 and H4. I save the values like this:     rsiM5 = iRSI(Symbol(), PERIOD_M5, 14, PRICE_CLOSE, 0);  

Hi all! I'm using Tickstory data for back-testing and for some reason I get COMPLETELY different results on build 950 vs newer other versions (build 970 or build 1045) Any idea why? TX

Hi ‌ I‌'m looking for a large investor to collaborate with and a financial company just asked my for my login details (user name & password) so that they could monitor my live account for 3 months. Is it an acceptable request? Should I comply? Is

Hi there... So, I developed a very good EA (IMHO), comprised of 5 algos, back tested it for 14 years (using tickstory, even though my algos are not day-trading), run it on a live account for the last year... I like the results. Anyway, I'm finding

Hi there Does anyone know how to get a full report on a real EA like the one in the back testing (with statistics and chart)? TX 

Hi there  This question might sound foolish - my apologies!  I have 3 types of params in my EA: int, bool and double. I'm backing everything up during runtime in a csv file, using an array of type double.  This is how  I'm doing

Hi there,   I'm using an EA on MT4 build 670. I have a question regarding the Sleep() function: if I use the function and let the EA "sleep" for 10 seconds,  will if freeze completely even if there are new pips? or will new pips cause the

Hi there, I have an EA and I had a back testing on a tick data from 2004 to 2014 (via tickstory) because I wanted to check the results on multi-year and in various market conditions (it's not HFT algo). Here's the thing: on GBP-USD I get very good

Hi there, I need to test my algo from 2004-2014. I have the data (it's tick based data) and I run a test in MT4 but it stops after 5 years. Why? What should I do? TX

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a way to automatically stop\pause my algo for X days in certain cases. Any idea\snippet for that? Thanks

ok, it's so weird! I'm building an intra- day trading forex strategy. It's calculating the difference between the day high and the day low rates and trades on if this difference it 60-80 pips. In order to check if we're between 60 to 80 pips, I use

Hi everyone, I'm using 6 years of tick data to test my EA and for some reason my stratey tester stops after 3.5 years. My FXT file is about 6 GB.... any solutions? TX

Hi everyone,   I'm new here and I would appreciate if you could help me with these 3 questions: 1. I'm developing a trading strategy on FOREX markets which must close all open trades and cancel all existing orders at about 0:00. The easy way to