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Developing a quality factor for Expert Advisors for MetaTrader 5

In this article, we will see how to develop a quality score that your Expert Advisor can display in the strategy tester. We will look at two well-known calculation methods – Van Tharp and Sunny Harris

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bug moving object

Someone had the experience to try to move object and it not obey and return success? The follow expert do not move the lines... how to report a bug to metaquotes? HLineCreate and HLineMove has been based on the documentation page of OBJ_HLINE . Metatrader version is from april 4 2023. string ativo=

Download rate in an EA

Is possible capture this information of download/upload rate in an expert advisor

no leverage account get stopout

Hi there, What is the best way to do backtest with no leverage? My problem is that I'm doing some test with grid systems and it has been stop out with money to new positions. This stop out is not real because my loss position is very large but I don't have leverage so I should not need to cover the

stop limit orders

Hi there, I'd like to know something about stop limit orders . I have been using stop ordens to buy at market in some point, but I'd like to buy only until a value so I started to change to stop limit orders. What I was expecting from buy stop limit? I was expecting that when the price hit the value

Backtest change symbol after download ticks

Hi there, I'd like to know with someone could help me. I have been doing tests on BOVA11 at B3 for sometime and the last week I started to have this error showed on image. For me it appears that the backtest started using BOVA11, but for unknow reasons change to BRLA11 that I never heard (it is not

Issue with Optimization on Strategy Tester

Hi there, Someone could explain me how the optimization on strategy tester works? I have been doing some tests and when I need to use three variables I have an inconsistent in results. Every time I do an trade I write a file that is unique to that series of simulation, but I could perceive that some

Windows Range

Hello everyone, I'm trying to make an indicator that can be drawn in the same window with other indicator and I've seen that each indicator has a different range to draw. What do I mean by that? The A indicator and my indicator (let's call it, B) have the same value. So, should both indicators

Strategy tester on mock currencies

Hi there, I have been trying to test my strategy, but it is difficult to test directly on historical data. Is it possible to test in a more controlled environment? I have the impression in some articles are used "mock" currency (a currency made up with controlled data). Am I wrong? I'm using