Oh, okay. So if I wanted to be sure of how that trade would have gone in real-time, I should just make that day the second-last day of the trading period? In other words, can I safely ignore the testers results for that one last trade? Thanks.

Whats with the "Tester: order _NUM_ is closed"

Oops, sorry about that. Here is the code.

EA not consistent

Sorry — Sorry, Rabid, I should have explained earlier what the 'lma' variable is. This extern int is the number of periods the iMA function uses to calculate the moving average. I apologize for the misinterpretation, I should have specified ...

Why ordermodify error 1?

Does not work. — Zen_leow: Thanks for the reply. I normalized both calls to the iMA() function, but the tester still continues to return 'OrderModify error 1'. Do you have any alternative suggestions or ideas? Thank you, Ravi.

Why ordermodify error 1?

Thanks. — Hey lucidlamp, Your suggestion was spot-on. I multiplied the factor of unrealized profits by 'Point' and the function started working correctly. Thank you.

Trailing stop function not working.

Hello lucidlamp, Yes, that is exactly correct. The trailing stop should start working once the trade has 11 pips of unrealized profit, locking in 1 pip of profit. After that, the trailing stop should follow the trade at a distance of 10 pips (in the ...

Trailing stop not effectual.

Hello, tdion: url I grew up in India, and so I use British English most of the time (my friends here in Canada still aren't quite used to it yet). Trailing stops would affect profits; thats why they are used in the first place. For example, ...

Trailing stop not effectual.

How to calculate trend? — Hi, I'm new to MQL4 so maybe there is some standard way to check for a trending SMA, but I don't know of it yet. How would to like to check for the trend of the SMA? For example, is the SMA trending up (for the ...

EA for simple system

Me too (somewhat) — I do (nearly) the same thing on a week-by-week basis with my simple ma cross strategy. What I do is look at the optimized values for one week and use exactly those for the next week, ad infinitum. Its not great, but it ...

optimization in Strategy tester

Thank you. — Thank you Ronald Raygun, lucidlamp, I had a look at the MarketInfo() function and now my problem is solved and my trailing stop function is working well. I will probably use IBfx, since their spreads are good (2 pips) on EURUSD, ...

Trailing stop has error 130

To find the best combination — The point of optimization is to find out which combination of settings would return a required level of the optimization goals (which could be: greatest profit, lowest drawdown, etc.). Note, however, that ...

optimization in Strategy tester