MQL4 Programming Articles - Tester

How to develop, write and test a trading strategy, how to find the optimal system
parameters and how to analyze the results? The MetaTrader platform offers
developers of trading robots rich functionality for fast and accurate testing of
trading ideas. Read these articles to learn how to test multi-currency robots and
how to use MQL5 Cloud Networkfor optimization purposes.
Developers of automated trading systems are recommended to start with the
testing fundamentals and tick generation algorithms in the strategy tester.
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Testing and Optimization of Expert Advisors

The article provides a detailed description of the process of testing and optimizing
Expert Advisors in the MetaTrader 4 Strategy Tester. The importance of such
information and the need for this...

Testing Expert Advisors on Non-Standard Time Frames

It's not just simple; it's super simple. Testing Expert Advisors on non-standard time
frames is possible! All we need to do is to replace standard time frame data with
non-standard time frame data....

Testing (Optimization) Technique and Some Criteria for Selection of the Expert
Advisor Parameters
There is no trouble finding the Holy Grail of testing, it is however much more
difficult to get rid of it. This article addresses the selection of the Expert Advisor
operating parameters with...

Using Neural Networks In MetaTrader

This article shows you how to easily use Neural Networks in your MQL4 code taking
advantage of best freely available artificial neural network library (FANN) employing
multiple neural networks in your...

A Pattern Trailing Stop and Exit the Market

Developers of order modification/closing algorithms suffer from an imperishable woe

- how to compare results obtained by different methods? The mechanism of
checking is well known - it is Strategy...

Automated Optimization of a Trading Robot in Real Trading

The articles describes and provides a library of functions that allows a trader to
optimize his or her Expert Advisor's inputs by launching optimization directly from
the EA.

Break Through The Strategy Tester Limit On Testing Hedge EA

An idea of testing the hedge Expert Advisors using the strategy tester.

How Not to Fall into Optimization Traps?

The article describes the methods of how to understand the tester optimization
results better. It also gives some tips that help to avoid "harmful optimization".

How To Implement Your Own Optimization Criteria

In this article an example of optimization by profit/drawdown criterion with results
returned into a file is developed for a standard Expert Advisor - Moving Average.

Testing Visualization: Account State Charts

Enjoy the process of testing with charts, displaying the balance - now all the
necessary information is always in view!

Tester in the Terminal MetaTrader 4: It Should Be Known

The elaborate interface of the terminal MetaTrader 4 is a forefront, but beside this
the terminal includes a deep-laid tester of strategies. And while the worth of
MetaTrader 4 as a trading terminal...

Genetic Algorithms vs. Simple Search in the MetaTrader 4 Optimizer

The article compares the time and results of Expert Advisors' optimization using
genetic algorithms and those obtained by simple search.

Testing Visualization: Manual Trading

Testing manual strategies on history. Check how your trading algorithm works
turning a deaf ear to programming niceties!

Testing Visualization: Functionality Enhancement

The article describes software that can make strategy testing highly similar to the
real trading.

Testing Visualization: Trade History

The article describes the possibilities of convenient viewing the trade history when
visualizing tests.

Testing of Expert Advisors in the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal: An Outward Glance

What happens after you have clicked on the "Start" button? The article answers this
and many other questions.

My First "Grail"
Examined are the most frequent mistakes that lead the first-time programmers to
creation of a "super-moneymaking" (when tested) trading systems. Exemplary
experts that show fantastic results in...

One-Minute Data Modelling Quality Rating

One-Minute Data Modelling Quality Rating

Genetic Algorithms: Mathematics

Genetic (evolutionary) algorithms are used for optimization purposes. An example

of such purpose can be neuronet learning, i.e., selection of such weight values that
allow reaching the minimum error....

How to Evaluate the Expert Testing Results

The article gives formulas and the calculation order for data shown in the Tester
report.

What the Numbers in the Expert Testing Report Mean

Article explains how to read testing reports and to interpret the obtained results
properly.

Testing Features and Limits in MetaTrader 4

This article allows to find out more about features and limits of Strategy Tester in
MetaTrader 4.

Strategy Tester: Modes of Modeling during Testing

Many programs of technical analysis allow to test trading strategies on history data.
In the most cases, the testing is conducted on already completed data without any
attempts to model the trends...