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Need help with Time Zone!

To preface, Forex.com's market watch is in UTC+2 and IG's market watch is in London time (UTC), so Forex.com is 2hrs ahead. Also, this is all MT4 testing. With the same trading alorithm using the brokers downloaded data history, I have to shift 2 hours ahead with the trading times in my algo for

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Mt4 backtest results different from mt5 - same data

Hi all, I created the exact same EA for both mt4 and mt5 and have different results, not very dramatic, but off by thousands on a long look back. I'm using supposedly the exact same data from tickstory in which I matched both timezones and dst. The EA uses open prices only and the settings are as

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Problem with requotes

Hi All, I've been trying to test my EA's in a demo environment using MT4, and noticed a problem with requotes. I'm basing the open buy/sell order off of the open/closed prices, so at the end/beginning of a candle ( open prices only ). regardless of what I set my slippage at I'm getting requotes

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Why won't my backtesting reflect DST?

Hi all, I've been back testing strategies in MT4 using IG for a while now. I wanted to try MT5 to get better insights on my EA's, and noticed a huge difference in results. I came to the conclusion that every MT5 Demo I've tried (2 different brokers in UK GMT+2 and also mql5.com download) are NOT

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Why results are different from mt4 to mt5

Hi all, I've been using mt4 to run back testing on EA's for a while now. I download the meta quotes data to get history back to 1999, and use all of it (my algo's use open prices only ). If MT5 also uses the same metaquotes data, then why are the results different from broker to broker? To put in

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Backtesting stops working after a while, until a reinstall mt4 again...

Hi everyone, My problem is that for some reason, back testing will stop working after I do it several hundred times with an EA in MT4. The only solution I know currently is to reinstall it, and then it works fine for a while, and then stops after a ton of testing (I click the start button and it

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Looking for MT4 RSI that I can change MA method for (IE Linear weighted RSI)

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me find a version of RSI indi for mt4 that I can change the ma calculation instead of using the standard Wilders. Just to clarify, I'm only looking to change the initial calculation, not add an MA to an rsi for crossovers. My first post