Thanks for your report ! Very similar, indeed ! Seems I start to like MT5 now lol It's amazingly simple for multi-currency stuff ..

MT4 + Tickstory vs MT5 Backtests

Yes, but we have to wait 4 years for the results lol Maybe a high frequency scalper EA would be more useful. Let it trade for a month, than backtest both and we should have something to compare.

MT4 + Tickstory vs MT5 Backtests

Demo accounts running, Alpari UK, MT4 Market account vs MT5 ECN. Spread is worse on MT4 for EURUSD but with a TP of 165 $ that should not be important .. ​

MT4 + Tickstory vs MT5 Backtests

An MT5 EA of this creative masterpiece can be found here: url

Random Trading EA with success

So here a MT4 result with Tickstory data, 4 years: image url Original Disussion: url Same thing in MT5, same input params and date range: image MT5 EA included in the full report: file Now I'm not a born MQL5 coder but hope the MT5 EA is ...

MT4 + Tickstory vs MT5 Backtests

Hi, the EA closes not at an exact value but "above" (TP) or "below" (SL). In an extreme volatile market situation it will certainly close pretty wrong. To improve that I would recommend to insert TP and SL into the Orders using OrderModify(). I ...

Random Trading EA with success

Found a list here: url

MT5 ECN Recommendation?

Just had an idea after too much coffee .. 1) Short USDRUB with MT4 using a broker of your choice and collect the nice Swap 2) Hedge this by going Long at BTC-E.com url (a major Bitcoin exchange) BTC-E has MT4 but USDRUB is not available to be ...

USD/RUB

Exit is when TP or SL is hit. This thing is basically just a proof of concept or .. disproof You need to runs this through the Optimizer first to determine working TP/SL levels for the timeframe you like to test. It seems that this EA only works ...

Random Trading EA with success

Live demo accounts make sense to compare, thx. With backtest I mean to take the best optimization result from MT4+Tickstory and let it run on MT5 to doublecheck the results. MT5 is very powerful for mutli-currency testing, just I'm not so sure if ...

MT4 + Tickstory vs MT5 Backtests

Thanks Maria.

ExNess

The EA is very basic and assumes that there are no others trades in the account. Have a look at the code. You can avoid this using magic numbers for example.

Random Trading EA with success

I stopped the optimizer and uploaded the best result here: url

Random Trading EA with success

Here the version without Spread checks: file

Random Trading EA with success

The EA works only if the spread is 1 point (0.00001) which was done to reduce spread costs. You can remove this spread check in the code.

Random Trading EA with success

If the EA doesn't work try to set the Spread to 1 in the tester. Well there is no real logic behind this EA, its just a test of random trading. But as mentioned by the previous posters it may not be exactly random in fact. Its still optimizing, but ...

Random Trading EA with success

I think spreads are fixed in MT4 during backtesting. Its coded in a way that in theory trades are entered only if the spread is 1 point. Doesn't apply in backtesting anyway afaik. Data is from Dukascopy as it's the main datasource in Tickstory. Once ...

Random Trading EA with success