Jean Francois Le Bas

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Optimize without fees

Hi Is there a way to optimize an EA without any fees ? to be able to see if a strat has an edge, regardless of the fees (that skew the results) I know you can in MT4 (just set zero spread) but I wasn't able to do it in MT5. thanks Jeff

Issues with the strategy tester

I'm mostly talking about issues with the "Visual Mode" of the strategy tester 1) If I start a backtest, but then stop it using the stop button of the main MT5 window and then try to start a new backtest by clicking "Start" : it doesn't work. I have to go to the Visual Mode window and click stop

losing spikes on Equity at 00:00

Right after midnight (00:19 for example), I got the equity that drops significantly and temporarily, it all goes back to normal levels after midnight. my EA is a grid that consists of buys and sells. I tried to hedge my grid before midnight so that there are the same number of buys and sells but the

Quick question about opening/closing multiple orders each bar

So I understand fully how orders, deals and positions work, but I got a question about an EA trading on multiple pairs. My EA trades on multiple pairs, with ONE order on each pair each time, and several pairs traded simultaneously now at each new bar, I want to close the positions that need closing

Worried about encryption algorithm

I consult a Trading Forum in Indonesia I think that shares cracked EAs. I ABSOLUTELY NEVER use cracked EAs (this is not for me), let me be perfectly clear, but I noticed that EAs from the marketplace here get cracked this plummeted my trust in the encryption algorithm. I thought that using the Cloud

Optimizing an automatic "strategy finder"

I want to create a "robot" that would automatically find strategies, based on the indicators requested and some basic operands (>, <, ==, etc) the key is that I want to backtest using only OHLC data, NOT as an expert advisor. the way I test indicators now, is that I make a "backtest" but within an

Why is that? "every tick" vs "every tick based on real ticks"

I backtested an EA on MT5 when I select "every tick based on real ticks ", I got a losing backtest : but when I choose "only ticks". I got a good result : the EA has a lot of positive reviews, so it's actually working live I think so why the discrepancy with real tick backtest ? I don't understand

history check timeout

2022.10 . 04 14 : 36 : 44.455 Tester Cloud servers switched off 2022.10 . 04 14 : 37 : 19.685 Tester F40: history check started 2022.10 . 04 14 : 37 : 30.494 Tester F40: history check timeout 2022.10 . 04 14 : 37 : 30.494 Tester F40: no history data from 2010.01 . 01 00 : 00 to 2011.01 . 01 00

I thought Pending Orders could only have Positive Slippage ?

i'm testing something right now, on MT5 and I got some pretty high slippage but it is negative slippage (I set a Sell Stop @ 1.30710 and it opens @ 1.30675) I thought only positive slippage was possible when using a Pending Order thanks Jeff

I can't figure this out

Hi I'm trying to make my spread filter work again, as it was working perfectly before and now it isn't and for the life of me I can't figure out why. In my trading routine I check for low spreads : double maxSpread = 0.4 ; int spread = SymbolInfoInteger (pair, SYMBOL_SPREAD ); if (spread <=

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