I've done a fair amount of back-testing before, but today I have seen something very strange that is interfering with the operation. When doing a visual back-test (in order to look at the trades and see if they agree with what I intended to
All trading (except when based on external information) relies (consciously or not) on inferences about the statistical properties of the market in the future from statistical properties of the market in the past. It seems useful to look at
I've had trouble getting the values agreeing between the stochastic function and the indicator itself displayed on charts (using exponential averaging , "Close" data point). Anyone familiar with the difference between the calculations and
When I do backtests and get highly implausible results, including trades being executed at prices outside of the range at the time in question, I am drawn to the strong suspicion that there is at least one serious bug in the backtester. I believe
I am very, very puzzled with results I am getting from metatrader's backtester. I am hoping someone else has had similar experiences, and may have an idea of what might be causing mine. An expert I developed achieved excellent results in backtests
I have a free custom indicator (as a ex4 file) which I would like to reference from an EA. All I need is access to the information displayed in the data window - the value of the indicator at a bar. Logically speaking it should be possible to get
