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Vital update for MT5

Please add ETH as testing currency in strategy tester . (Besides USD, EUR etc)

An idea?...

Here is a suggestion. Can Metaquotes add the ability to optimize the optimisation criteria in order to get the criteria that has the best walk-forward? Let's take a simple example of a criteria that considers relative drawdown and profit. If these properties each had a weight per criteria, these

Position CloseBy

This function within the CTrade class is buggy! When running strategy tester the closing prices for some instruments are hugely incorrect. Like EURCAD can be closed at USDJPY prices. This generates false tester results that inflate a strategy's performance

Wild volatility

We could be in for wild volatility in the first 2 weeks of July. Something like what we saw in Jan 2015. What is the best protection? Lookin for ideas

ParameterGetRange()

How does one use this function ? The below code is not working. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| test.mq5 | //| Copyright 2017 |

Walk forward results

When optimizing how do I get walk forward results programmatically? Can this be done with TesterStatistics()

How is this possible!

It seems this guy lost USD 72m because of a position size of 0.4 lots