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No commissions, irrelevant quotes, spread errors. If there is no commission, it is a clear sign that the tests were carried out on a demo account. You can download the data to Excel and check with a couple of formulas if the commissions, opening/closing prices, profits and balance correspond to each other. If unprofitable trades have been removed or numbers changed, Excel will display a discrepancy. Equal ticks, the order of the ticks does not correspond to the time of opening the transactions. Advice. If someone offers you to invest in a trading system and shows you a backtest report as proof, ask for the investor's password. 4. Optimization of expert advisors in the historical period Advisor optimization in the MT4 tester represents consecutive passes of the same expert with different inputs on the same data.

At that time, such parameters can be taken that make the expert's efficiency maximum. Optimization is necessary in two cases. If you have just built an expert advisor and want to optimize it for other time periods or trading instruments. The market situation has changed. The market is volatile, price trends are variable, so any trading system needs to be set up from time to time. The parameters are  Belize Mobile Number List automatically verified in the tester. Before starting optimization, check the corresponding box in the main menu of the tester. You can disable Visual mode. The optimization is performed on the “All ticks” model (run the tester on all three models and compare the accuracy of the results). LiteFinance: Integrated Indicator Tester and MetaTrader 4 Advisors |  Litefinance 4.1.



Proof. Enter the "Expert Properties / Tests" tab In the "Optimization" section, select the main parameter, based on which each run of the tester during the historical period will be evaluated. Balance. The tester selects the best results based on the value of the deposit balance. The set of the best parameters will correspond to the version where the key factor is the highest balance value. Profit Factor. The key parameter will be the ratio of profitable and unprofitable transactions. If the value is 1 or less for all tests, the advisor cannot be used in real trading. The optimal will be the version where the ratio will be maximum in favor of profitable transactions. Expected Payoff. The key parameter that the tester focuses on is, a mathematical expectation, which should be at least the size of the spread.