Re: Dates Missing in back test
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:11 am
Hi Lorraine,
From a Tickstory perspective, please re-check the following:
1) That Metatrader 4 History Center has all the data for the dates you exported and;
2) If you run the MACD Sample EA (and change no other Strategy Tester settings), does it still only trade on the 2nd Oct?
If there are no issues with the above two points, it's likely that your EA's logic is determining to open a trade only on this day for some reason. If this is not expected, maybe check the time-frame it should be operating under (15-minute? 1 hour?) and maybe that will encourage it to trade more often. Otherwise, it could be some other setting within the EA. You might also want to clear the Journal log in the Strategy Tester, test and then view the earliest logs to see why it may not be opening a trade earlier (sometimes EAs might report that the spread is not favorable, for example).
Thanks.
From a Tickstory perspective, please re-check the following:
1) That Metatrader 4 History Center has all the data for the dates you exported and;
2) If you run the MACD Sample EA (and change no other Strategy Tester settings), does it still only trade on the 2nd Oct?
If there are no issues with the above two points, it's likely that your EA's logic is determining to open a trade only on this day for some reason. If this is not expected, maybe check the time-frame it should be operating under (15-minute? 1 hour?) and maybe that will encourage it to trade more often. Otherwise, it could be some other setting within the EA. You might also want to clear the Journal log in the Strategy Tester, test and then view the earliest logs to see why it may not be opening a trade earlier (sometimes EAs might report that the spread is not favorable, for example).
Thanks.