How To Use The MT5 Strategy Tester For Backtesting (EA Testing Explained)

I’m not sure why but it never gives me the results. It runs all the different inputs selected but never gives me the drawdown, the profit, or anything else.

HI rene, ON Meta trader 5 , Strategy tester , Once we backtest any EA, the trades taken during a period is not visible, but on MT4 Strategy tester we can see that, only the backtest summary and graph is there, but the actual trades and history tab is not visible in Meta Trader 5 Strategy Tester

How you see multi timeframes on visualizer

hi Rene, nice explanation n can be understood easily...

Bonsoir, j'aimerais savoir quelle sont les conditions ou critères pour valider un robot de trading apres l'avoir backtester?

Why with the "calculation pips" flag we get 10 times less pips than when the symbol has jpy?

By doing this the balance becomes different between pairs without jpy and pairs who have jpy 😵

Backtest example with 10k initial deposit between EURUSD and GBPJPY

If both get 1457 pips we have a balance of 11457 for EURUSD while 10145.7 for GBPJPY.

It would appear that GBPJPY has a performance = 4.57% against EURUSD = 14.57%

If the backtest is read alone the other parameters are ok because they all have the same pips (ex. profit factor, average profit, etc…) only the balance is wrong but if we do a multicurrencies backtest we have the problem again!

Clear hope 😂😅

Hi Rene, great video. I am currently using MT4 with Tick Data Suite for my historical tick data, my broker is also IC Markets. If I changed to MT5, could I then just use the historical data from IC Markets? Thanks

Long video, nicely done -- could you add chapters would be very useful, have no idea where to find what im looking for

OK, this is automated backtesting. Is there a way to manual backtest like I would do on a live account?

Hi, how do you add broker commissions to your backtest?

Forward is forward testing. Its always good idea to do. Because, if you optimize the strategy it standartly get overoptimized. Means, it overfits to the specific period youve tested. Forward testing, wil split the data in two parts, one it uses for optimization and second is used for testing of that optimization, hence you can be sure it doesnt overfit to the specific period.

How do we test a strategy on multiple currency pairs simultaneously?

I see no differerence in results after changing leverage .

Hey mate


When I changed my backtest settings to - delay ping ms and every tick based on real ticks from the standed settings I got a completely different result from both? Is that normal

solid info and super useful. cheers bru

In my recent EA, there was a huge difference between the every tick and real tick modes. The first was very profitable and the second a disaster. I then backtested each parameter individually to see which are important or not. For instance, the spread and slippage filters were important.

Hey I got a question? When I use the Strategy tester do I use the Numbers that come up in the Optimization Results for when setting the Variables on the Charts Or do I Just Use the Numbers that I actually Ran the Test on

René, when i start the test, it actually load and make the simulation, but it doesnt show any type of trades or profits made, what should i do?, thank you and greeting from Colombia

after this video and the stoch, I had to subscribe great content

my stragety tester looks nothing like it?=

I may have stupid question... but, I will ask anyway 🙂. If I put in my strategy (expert advisor code) that I want to risk 1% per trade with risk/reward ratio 1:1, and stops on recent swing high/low (calculated on 1% of account)... and if I test this advisor I get some results no mater profitable or not. When I check back test results (download it in xml) I can see that for 1000 usd account, every time I lose a trade I lose cca 10 usd, and every time I win my account is growing for 10 usd. Final result is for example, profit for the chosen period, of 500 usd. This is ok of course, but if I change leverage, I get completely different results with different numbers of trades... Why is that if I already defined risk per trade and R:R ratio?

Oh and last thing the forward settings is your out of sample data, hence you literally simulate the market as if you are receiving the results live, hence mt5 / 4 generates separate reports based on out of sample data testing, this is what one can expect if traded live. Out of sample data is data not used for optimization of parameters

I want to buy and sell on my own i.e I want to move candle by hand and manually is that possible in mt5 what is that methid and how to use

Nice video!

whenever i click the start button to start the EA it never works theres just a squeak sound and nothing happens
Help please!!

interesting

hi
is there any wa i can get like "replay in tradingview on mt5??

Great content, René Balke. I have one question though. How do you backtest a multipair EA? Thank you!

I am starting to create an EA for Metatrader 5 .... your videos are very helpful

Hello Rene. Cool stuff you are doing. Would you mind doing a fractals tutorial. . Like using them as stop loss etc

hi Rene, nice videos and really informative, thanks a lot!
As a suggestion, especially for longer videos you may add some time codes, in order to ease (re)watching a specific part for a few times :)

Hi rene Tsepo here from South Africa...I'd really like your most personal help with creating an EA mind you I have no knowledge about coding.

Hi... Was waiting for your new video... ☺️