A ForexTester strategy will be supplied to you as a Windows DLL library, so a file with a .dll suffix. To Install 1. Shut down your copy of ForexTester 2. Find the folder where ForexTester is installed. This is usually something like C:ForexTester3 (or C:ForexTester2 if you’re running the older version) 3. […]
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A ForexTester script will be supplied to you as one or two Windows DLL libraries, so files with a .dll suffix. To Install 1. Shut down your copy of ForexTester 2. Find the folder where ForexTester is installed. This is usually something like C:ForexTester3 (or C:ForexTester2 if you’re running the older version) […]
This is the one in a series of Metatrader 101 posts, partly so that I can have something to give to clients who are new to Mt4. It will cover the basics so people can get up and running quickly. Some more advanced Metatrader code that you’ll come across […]
Over the years there have been any number of back-testing platforms but one which I’ve recently come across and which I really like is ForexTester. This has been designed very much to look like MetaTrader 4, which is my preferred FX platform anyway so I feel very much at home […]
This is an agressive way to pyramid trades in a risk-free way: at each new add-on the stop-loss on the combined position is moved to break-even. By doing this multiple times very aggressive returns can be achieved with no additional risk apart from that of the initial trade. See our […]
If you need to do position sizing calculations for constant account risk on your entries then this natty ForexTester script is for you. When you run the script it automatically replaces your order with one sized to the correct amount for your required risk. It saves countless hours in back-test […]
Back-testing with Metatrader4 can be a bit tricky for the unwary as there are some quirks that you need to be aware of and if you’re not careful you can end up back-testing with random data rather than the good quality data that you thought you were. In this blog […]
Clean financial market data for back-testing Through our various trading platforms and data feeds we have accumulated a reasonable history of finanical market data over the years. What we have now done is to clean it up (where possible it’s from a single reliable and tradeable source), and convert it […]
FXStrategies is a great little web-site that I’ve just recently come across through my association with the trader behind it, Frank Walbaum. Originally from Germany, Frank now lives and trades from his adopted home in Singapore. I got to know Frank at a recent FX conference where we were both […]
This is the one in a series of Metatrader 101 posts, partly so that I can have something to give to clients who are new to Mt4. It will cover the basics so people can get up and running quickly. In Metatrader you only have a limited choice of charts: […]