This is the exact tick data from MT4: 05.02.2010 04:04:02 CET 'FLEX.SPREADS' EURCHF 1.47785 1.48429 64.4 05.02.2010 04:04:06 CET 'FLEX.SPREADS' EURCHF 1.47808 1.48485 67.7 05.02.2010 04:04:09 CET 'FLEX.SPREADS' EURCHF 1.47258 1.47286 2.8 05.02.2010 ...

Alpari UK enormous spread

No I didn't. Though even if I have increasing is one thing. Who can expect multiplying by 100.

Alpari UK enormous spread

How much do you guys think a spread can go wide? As I've seen 200 do you recon 1000 is also possible?

Alpari UK enormous spread

Yes I was told by Alpari it was a swiss intervention. Whatever it was it seems it has not happened only at Alpari. I just wanted to know whether it happened only to me or to others. I have seen requotes at Alpari but I am trading long term and I ...

Alpari UK enormous spread

Who are you with now?

Alpari UK enormous spread

Let me tell you what I saw - very surprising to me. Please let me know if someone else has experienced something like that. I have 2 computers one is running a demo account and the other live. When I run backtest on the PC which has a demo account ...

demo vs live

Thanks Trk, This was exactly what I was looking for. I remember looking at the detailed report but I didn't scroll down.

MT4 EA forward testing graph

lol by secrets I mean I have dealt long enough and I have no trouble implementing exactly what I want - but even that is so the data I am dealing with might be not that good. Yes I know that trick of the history by sclorring back unfortunatelly ...

MT4 backtest swap question

The only problem I had with DLLs was passing strings back to an EA. The key was to pass the string from the EA appropriatelly and allocate some space for the string which MT4 doesn't do by default e.g. when calling my DLL function in the EA: (the ...

I am having a ball importing DLLs

Are you using any other software to back/forward test except MT4. I can say MT4 doesn't have secrets for me anymore but I am not sure how real the history quotes provided by MetaQuotes are. And I kind of doubt the results.

MT4 backtest swap question

If it has to be a file and you want to avoid locks what you can do is to write in a new file each time and name e.g. MT4 can write a file with the name 20080807115300120 which is based on date/time stamp to the hundreds of a second. When you read ...

Pushing MT4 DDE to its limit

Does it have to be DDE? You can write a DLL and export a function which you can call from an EA. This way you have access in the DLL to anything you have access within an EA. If you want to do it realtime you can use COM to talk to Excel.

Pushing MT4 DDE to its limit

I also had a version of the EA which was making like 300-500% but was eventually loosing the whole account 2-3 times over the 8 years period. I wasn't sure which one is better just risk everything and withdraw regularly or withdraw very rare and ...

What is a reasonable system

Very impressive indeed. As I see I have a way to go The system I have if tested for 2008 gives 85% profit - a drop in the ocean in comparison with yours. I am pretty curious what is the max drawdown of yours?

What is a reasonable system

Thanks Tdion, After seeing your post I checked the trades and even thought many of them are with TP 10-20 I haven't seen 1 which is in the same minute. The open positions are open for an average of 30-50 min. This system actually is placing trades ...

What is a reasonable system

To answer one of the previous questions - it is not a martingale system. Part of the money management is using an idea from martingale i.e. it uses certain number of lots and after a loss it uses a bit more for sometime, but after another loss it ...

What is a reasonable system