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Signals page - Main chart calculation

Hello. Does the percentage shown include deposits made throughout the signal

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Equity loss maximal

Hello. I'm looking for a way to find an EA's Equity Loss Maximal figure. And I don't mean the existing Equity drawdown maximal because I only want to know what was the maximum amount a position has dropped with respect to it's entry price, not to it's highest point. Anyone know of a way

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EA in Strategy tester placing positions that I don't have funds for...

I'm testing an EA. I noticed it sometimes opens positions (in strategy tester) with a volume much greater than my balance + leverage. How is that possible? I this screenshot I have 972 EUR balance and I'm using 1:30 leverage. It opened a volume of 0.97 on GBPUSD. Meaning a 97,000 GBP position. What

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MetaEditor - debugging input params

Hello. When I start debugging with historical data from MetaEditor, it changes my EA's input parameters and I can't figure out where can I set those? These are not the defaults and they are not what I set in strategy tester before starting the debugging

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Strategy tester - bug report

Couldn't find a bug report contact so I'll put this here. There's a small bug in the strategy tester results that took me a while to figure out. If I do backtest + forward test, and in the backtest I filtered out some options, lets say Drawdown>50%. Then on the forward test results tab I right click

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Memory usage by an indicator

Hello, I have a function using the iATR method. My function is being called once per bar onTick(); I noticed when backtesting that my RAM gets filled up within a few seconds and my Windows freezes. If I comment-out the last line (IndicatorRelease) then the problem resolves. Why is that? int

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Detect volatility

I would like my EA to have separate TP and SL for when it's volatile and when it's calm. How should I detect it? (I don't want to use an indicator) Will taking the average size of all the bars in the last week be enough? Anything above it would be considered volatile? Is there a quick way to get an

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Strategy tester results don't match

Hi I ran the tester with the fast genetic algorithm with forward testing. Then I picked a specific result, put the exact parameters into my bot, and ran it in visual mode. I got very different results in both backtest and forward test visual tests . Even the number of trades doesn't match. Any idea

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Strategy tester - choosing the right result

I have the following results table. I'm not sure which one to prefer. My testing was done on a 500 euros account. The first row has the most profit in forward testing, but the backtest is at a small loss. The third raw has profit in both forward and backtest but it has a low sharpe ratio. The eight

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Strategy tester cache

In the documentation, it's said that MT5 caches optimization results for each testing parameters such as period in order to not repeat them. https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/algotrading/strategy_optimization What if my "to date" is today's date? Is it still cached and not retested