Experts Advisors and historial tests
To test a strategy we have the strategy tester that came with the meta trader program. on it we can see how the robot performs in past months, days, etc.
We are interested on monthly tests to start, our experts advisors are for the 15 min chart.
We had been working in real time with this robot but the results are to slow to take conclusions and are very limited to human factors, sometimes i want to try something else, some others i don’t even trade or wake up at the right times.
The strategy tester runs on a perfect world, a world where there are no errors, where computers are always on and perfectly running. We know reality is a little harder but i think the strategy tester is the best way to know if an expert advisor will work or not in the real world of trading.
11 – 31 Moving Averages Difference for Trend Development Test results 2010:
January 2010.
Details January
Earnings:Â -111.21
February 2010.
Details February
Earnings:Â -104.54
March 2010.
March Details
Earnings:Â -242.67
April 2010.
April Details
Earnings:Â -150.48
May 2010.
May Details
Earnings:Â 168.92
June 2010.
June Details
Earnings:Â 113.49
So in 6 months, this robot made:
January -111.21
February -104.54
March -242.67
April -150.48
May 168.92
June 113.49
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-326.49
The strategy will loose money in the long term if we take what the strategy can do in the last 6 months. It is interesting to see how the robot made better in the last 2 months (may and june) while the first 4 months of the year were all losses.
The strategy haves to be tweaked, remember this was just a test, this wasn’t even my strategy.
Remember here the EA was running 24 hours, i am going to tweak this robot to trade in the American Session only as it is more realistic. I can’t afford computers turned on 24/7 for now.
After the time test i will change criteria of the expert advisor so it can trade other signals.
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