It takes the same time you usually have to wait when you start your terminal and then the backtest by hand. At the end of the backtest the terminal automatically exits, leaving a html report with the results of the run. This overhead of a few ...

Remote control of strategy tester

In case you have missed it, I refer to the documentation you can find in your MT4 client, go to Help -> Help topics -> Tools -> Configuration at Startup With this approach you don't need the MT4 optimization feature any more, all the runs are ...

Remote control of strategy tester

Yes, it's possible, I am just working this way. The external program I'm using is written in C#. You can start the MT4 terminal and automatically run the backtester from the command line. Give a look at the documentation of your MT4 client.

Remote control of strategy tester

Solved! I divided some big functions in smaller modules and the problem has gone... PHEW!

MT4, Internal stack overflow-simplify the program, please

I think there's something wrong in the description of the strategy in the first post: - send 2 pending stop orders (1 buy, 1 sell) whenever the price reaches a new level - when the price moves in a direction (e.g. long) do not delete the pending ...

let's go where the price goes

Show me a precise example of wrong behavior of the EA, according to the rules in post #1. The open orders are trailed to breakeven when a new level is reached. Each time a new level is reached, 2 new stop orders are sent. With these rules, it ...

let's go where the price goes

The EA does what it is described in post #1. When a level is reached, it places two pending "stop" orders at the 2 nearest levels, one above and one below the level just reached. Did I understand wrong?

let's go where the price goes

What's the purpose of this kind of posts?

let's go where the price goes

I notice not much willing to share... So here you go with my EA, it trades according to the instructions in post #1.

let's go where the price goes

To solve all this issues... Is there anywhere to find a table with verified historical GMT session times?

Session times clarification

My feeling is that two separate MT4 clients even on the same PC should have independent trade context. Never experimented on this, my EAs do not require fast order send so the busy trade context is not really a problem for me.

MT4 and PC Arrangement for EAs

Having one single EA with all the strategies included will avoid many headaches. When going real, remove all external parameters to avoid messing up things.

MT4 and PC Arrangement for EAs

The instructions of Oblivian are correct. You are probably doing something wrong.

Which E-mail Providers Can be Used for MT4 E-mail Alerts?

for(int a=OrdersTotal()-1;a>=0;a--)

Close order EA

Hi tdion, glad to see you here. Why do you say so? I did not post absolute values of stops and lots... Lot sizes are increased when prices (and stops) shrink. The probability of large moves increase in those situations. I never risk more than a ...

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

Also I am a follower of volatility breakout strategies. I post here some examples of my results (EURUSD, Daily and Weekly volatility breakout, 1999-2010)... I would really like to exchange some opinions and trading experiences with you, to possibly ...

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

In your chart there are too few trades, i.e. overfitting [MOD] Sorry, did not look at your links

Successful Automatic Trading - Like Chasing Bigfoot?

The system in its original form can be programmed, as you can see, otherwise tell me where the EA is failing to reproduce the operativity of the system. The simple fact is that the strategy itself is a loser. If you think that the manual ...

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