any tips u can give when testing ea on broker? should i switch to test on different ones?
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I know of broker manipulation and not sure why the eas i was testing suddenly did different after weeks of testing...is it bad to run tests on a broker too many times? just asking for tips...keep i mind i was using the same pair and time cycle.
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@mynds9 a good way for every strategy is only to test with open, close, high, low values, not with ticks, because this can be manipulated or incorrect by many ways!!! Also use a broker which has REAL data for SPREAD and so on on demo. For this just use a broker for eg. from ninja trader and let it run there. And let them run paralell and look with your eyes if it works correct, or if you see some problems. I tested for eg. IC and found out i had lot of lags and gaps on demo close before normal my trade runs into SL, which isnt good to test a strategy. Read reviews of other traders, and then try them out. I had tested over 30 and even if you have a good demo broker, it doesnt mean it works in real in the same way. MT4 is known that brokers can influence the price via spread increasing and many more things. In MT5 it isnt any longer so easy for brokers to manipulate. But it depends on your country, account-type and many more. But look that the demo is as real as possible. AAAFX makes a good job with demo, also ActiveTrades atm. I use them most to test. Hope it helps.
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@mynds9 It would help if you could post some evidences where your EA supposed to behave differently. There are so many ways an error can occur besides broker's manipulation. In any case you should check the Expert and the Journal regularly in order to see if there are connection or order filling issues.
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@mynds9 Lol, I had the sensation sometimes, that the market learns what the EA does, and the next day messes everything up so you don't win.
For almost a year now, I did only forward testing, and watching the market this way, was the best thing, as it helped tremendously with market understanding.
This is not something we can learn linearly... this is more like direct observation of physics, and nature.
In the same way like when you see that if the sun is shining, there is more heat... so you don't take your jacket. But then there comes a time, like winter, when that's not necessarily true. Market also has it's phases, it's own nature, physics. Like in life, with experience, you kind of come to know when to take a jacket or not. But this is only the first part. Because that helps with trading manually. There is also the psychological aspect, and you come too see... this is life, it's direct, not some job...
Trading "touches" deeply
Second part, with EA's, transposing something like that observation in rules and conditions, it is kind of like writing the laws of physics.
For me this is also fascinating
There is spread manipulation for sure, I have seen spreads going from 3 to 50 but for that put a spread filter block as a condition, although that doesn't save you from a stop loss wipe out after you entered a trade. Increasing stop loss size messes up the R:R , so it's not easy finding the balance.