Just curious if others are using MT5 to backtest for eventual trading on MT4.
MT5 is more accessible, free to everyone, much faster and provides automatic access to real ticks.
Since fxD seems to create code reasonably well for both platforms from the same project it seems like a winner. Is anyone aware of any shortcomings?
Thanks,
Richard
It needs to have a help message attached to it.
The more things you have undocumented the more exasperating the system can become at times.
Perhaps someone that uses it could provide a mini-tutorial. That would be very helpful.
@josecortesllobat How in the world did you find that?
And where is the Make Tons of Money option hidden?
Okay, never mind. I figured out how to show variables in the tester log.
fxD can be a treasure hunt as times ... 
I put this line into a Custom MQL code block and connected it after my Buy and Sell blocks ...
Print("***** T/P: " + v::TakeProfit + " S/L: " + v::StopLoss + " *****");
Stuff inside quotes is just text. Variables are prefixed with 'v::'. Constants would be prefixed with 'c::'
My code was occasionally setting stop loss to zero. 
Made a ton of funny money.
@roar I keep wishing there was an unobtrusive way to attach notes to fxD projects at various places.
@riccardo I think he kind of did code it.
Try asking more specific questions.
Watched half the video. Sales BS. Simple ideas that everyone that builds EAs thinks about on their second day.
How to do this? Do what? Build a house?
The video is wishful nonsense. Sorry.
Do you want to build an amazing EA or buy one? Or just make money?
Lots of sales nonsense on Youtube. Lots of incredible sources of information too. You need to learn the difference.
I think you use the Metatrader code for that indicator as a template.
You can do almost anything. Dreema is a programming language after all. With MT4/MT5 underneath.
It can be done. Though, it can be complex.
This is from the Dreema himself, from an old post elsewhere. I thought it was worth repeating ...
Please, learn one simple thing. When you want to add something new to a project, try the new thing in another EA, only the thing, as simple as possible, with only a few blocks. Then if it does not work you will know it and you will be sure where the problem is.
I'm pretty sure the 'magic number' is meant to be restricted to one single terminal environment. To share that information across to other terminals would probably take additional software. (I'm not an expert.)
There are tons of write-ups about Metatrader magic numbers available via a good google search.
Documentation is like writing a computer program. If you don't cover every detail completely and perfectly it will probably fail at some point.
(Yes, writing documentation kind of sucks. Been there, done that. )
It's a necessary evil.
Thanks for all you do!
@fxdreema Was just thinking about what you said here and came running back. You say you 'write as less words as possible. (As few words as possible.) And that's wonderful ... for fiction. It's one of the most important rules for good fiction writing. NOT for documentation.
You can write a terse synopsis to keep from 'scaring people away' but you really need to cover all the bloody details below that.
Money is at stake. No details are too small. Everything must be covered.
Absolutely everything.
("Oh, did I forget to tell you a Stop-Loss isn't placed if you don't turn on these hidden options?")
Absolutely everything must be covered. Twice! Or at least try.
Perhaps users would be willing to do occasional cleanup of documentation.
But there must be longer, wordy, more complete descriptions to work from.
Even written in Russian would be much better than not enough information. We have Google Translate available, after all.
Thanks!
I started testing an EA less than a week ago on Demo. The balance is up almost double. But there's an open position with no stop loss that promises to erase 1/4 of the gains. How did this happen. And how do I protect against it?
I'm guessing my stop was too close, and thus 'illegal'. So it was left unset. I'm computing my stops and may have an error somewhere. (This is why I wanted to dump variable values into the testing log. How do you do that?)
But how do you check that your Stop Loss and Take Profit are set?
Things are getting complicated.
The good results could be due to trading without stops ... that was not my intent.
Thanks for your help. And thanks for the cool tool.
I have had numerous times I've come to the forum to search for answers and come up empty.
I would suggest that since the documentation is quite sparse that forum response are very complete. And when someone asks a followup question that responses continue to be complete and exhaustive.
And perhaps answers to forum questions could be rolled back into the documentation.
Apparently simple EAs are not enough. Need to have error checking and other kinds of safety checking.
I agree. There's an odd paranoia among automated forex traders. When I was trading stocks and futures we were fully aware that if more people used the same system it tended to make that system WORK BETTER. Similar to pumping a stock. More traders pushing the same way.
Perhaps the fear is someone will discover the ultra-winning strategy and the authorities will have to outlaw trading or something, because the whole world will be draining currencies. Wow.
fxDreema is a wonderful tool. But lack of good documentation or more complete help messages is a huge waste of hours and hours of time.
Is there any way to fix this?
The ability to test on MT5 and trade on MT4 is stellar. But so much is not well described, defined or explained. Too much time spent testing fxDreema when we should be testing our strategies built with it.
Thanks,
Richard
@roar Thanks for sharing. Lots of ways to use the tools, nice to see someone else's approach.
Set it up so you can try them all and see which one tests the best?
A little buffer between the candle high and low seems preferred. Another place to back-test a range of numbers and see which one performs the best.
Depending on your time frame and currency, averaging three to five candles or so can help sometimes.