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How do I get rid of strange backtesting glitch?

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 automate), at the end of a simulation, 95 indicator

A key property of a market

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 statistics more general than the results of a particular

iStochastic and the stochastic indicator

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 if they can be reconciled

Completely different results from same expert

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 and across a wide range of variations in

How can the backtester be fixed?

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 part of this error is that somehow imported data gets

Accessing a custom indicator

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 this information, since the metatrader software has