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Spread vs Commission in ea trading

Hi, on Dax index CFD , for automated trading using proprietary expert advisors A a broker has 2 account types : 1. 0.2 guaranteed bid ask spread and 0.6 round trade commission per Lot 2. 0.8 guaranteed bid ask spread and 0 commission It may look similar but stoplosses, BUY/SELLSTOP orders etc. may

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retrieve testing dates in tester

Hello, I need to use the number of testing days within an ea (basically test end date - test start date) How can I get it ? Thank you

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Walk Forward Optimization tools on MT4

Hi, Say I run an MT4 optimization from 01.01.2016 to 31.12.2019 and then I want to test all strategies from previous optimization on the period 01.01.2020 to 31.12.2020 to eliminate those with poor results (on the basis that they were probably overfitted or not statistically significant enough so

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MT4 ea optimization journal

Hello, I've noticed that in most cases when I optimize an ea the journal remains empty of trades with only "Optimization started" printed in the journal until the end, when some other times it prints all trades of all passes I can't figure out why ? is there an option to choose or not ? Does it slow

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Iphone app MT4 history tab

Hi, How can I set the history tab of the MT4 iOS App to « Day » by default ? Each time I run the iphone MT4 App it is by default on « Month » and when I set it to « Day » it’s ok only until next reopening of the App. Thanks

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Money Management EA

Hi, Is it possible to create an EA that will control all running EAs with features such as : - stop trading all EAs until tomorrow if PNL for the day is above/below xxx % of equity. Thanks

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Low since last High

Hello, I 'm looking at an expert based on the High over last 10 Bars (H1) I want to calculate the Low since last High was touched Here's what I did but the problem is it gives me the Low since a time equal to the beginning of the Bar where the High was hit and what I want is the exact time when the

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Different Results in Optimization and Backtests ?

Hi, I am optimizing an ea TimeFrame H1 with every tick (using my own tick data & real spreads) ; it is a high-low based scalper with relatively tight stops/profits. After it is finished, when I go to "optimization results" tab and double click on a specific line to run a backtest on that specific

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moving average of equity curve

Hi, Hello, I'm trying to introduce an equity control within code of ea to improve it. For example imagine I have an ea called EA1 ; this one will trade in min Lots with its own MagicNumber EA2 will trade with regular Lots, different MagicNumber, same conditions as EA1 plus one: only allow trade if

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backtesting many strategies at the same time

Hi, I wrote an ea and have run an optimization on Period 1 ( In Sample) How can I test all the strategies on Period 2 (Out of Sample) at once, without having to do it manually for each of them. Is there a tool, software etc.. tha provides this feature ? Thank You