First success using Mt4 tester on EA...but
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I think I've completed an EA that I plan to test on a live demo account tomorrow. I was actually able to run it through the strategy tester and it actually worked. The results were fairly close to what I've manually traded on another pair. The pair I tested was EURUSD, but the tester won't work on any other pair. Has anyone else had this kind of problem before?
I've also noticed from watching other videos that the report, graph, and chart are missing on my tester. It would be nice to have it, but I'll settle for just the result if that's all I can get. I'll try to see if anyone can answer this last part in MQL5 community.
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@fxbam said in First success using Mt4 tester on EA...but:
I think I've completed an EA that I plan to test on a live demo account tomorrow. I was actually able to run it through the strategy tester and it actually worked. The results were fairly close to what I've manually traded on another pair. The pair I tested was EURUSD, but the tester won't work on any other pair. Has anyone else had this kind of problem before?
I've also noticed from watching other videos that the report, graph, and chart are missing on my tester. It would be nice to have it, but I'll settle for just the result if that's all I can get. I'll try to see if anyone can answer this last part in MQL5 community.
Not quite sure what that problem would be.
What does the journal say when you try to run it on other symbols?
Is it manually defined within the coding, to trade on EURUSD?
Paste your settings screenshot here, from MT software. The settings screen of your EA test. tp see the symbol, date, modelling, deposit, etc. -
@fxbam Can you please share the link to the project? We'll take a look at it.
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I think some of the issues have been figured out. In the Mt4 tester, the optimization button was checked which seems to hide the chart and a few other things. The replay feature doesn't seem to work with every pair and the chart seems to lock up with those ones, but it will still give me data on the open and closed positions. I have noticed that the EA isn't trading exactly the way I want it to. It has missed lots of trading opportunities and taken other ones I wouldn't have. I guess my next goal is to figure out if I can get the EA to do what I want. I still may test this version on a chart. I'm just happy that I actually see something working.
