What does "stopped because of Stop Out" from the Tester log mean?

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We've got a new EA under development.  When I run it in the Strategy Tester (using tick data courtesy of Birt's excellent "Tick Data Suite") from Jan 1, 2012 - April 1, 2013, it doesn't make it very far.  Here is the Tester log:

13:57:01 BadaBing EURUSD,M1: loaded successfully
13:58:00 BadaBing inputs: MagicNumber=20130325; ExpYear=0; ExpMonth=0; ExpDay=0; Password=1285321; RiskPercent=5; FixedLotSize=1; MarginPercent=20; Leverage=50; PercentK=5; PercentD=3; Slowing=3; PriceField=1; OBZ=90; OSZ=10; ClosePercent=33; MinRange=10; FixedSL=0; SLbarPercent=100; FixedTP=0; TPmultiplier=1; ProfitPips=0; TrailPips=0; Ratio1_XBars2_None0=0; Ratio=1; XBars=3;
13:58:00 2012.01.02 21:00  BadaBing EURUSD,H1: open #1 buy 38.46 EURUSD at 1.29320 ok
13:58:00 2012.01.02 21:00  BadaBing EURUSD,H1: modify #1 buy 38.46 EURUSD at 1.29320 sl: 1.29190 tp: 1.29450 ok
13:58:00 2012.01.02 21:49  Tester: stop loss #1 at 1.29190 (1.29187 / 1.29195)
13:58:00 2012.01.03 09:00  BadaBing EURUSD,H1: open #2 sell 47.50 EURUSD at 1.29769 ok
13:58:00 2012.01.03 09:00  BadaBing EURUSD,H1: modify #2 sell 47.50 EURUSD at 1.29769 sl: 1.29869 tp: 1.29669 ok
13:58:00 2012.01.03 09:00  BadaBing: stopped because of Stop Out
13:58:00 2012.01.03 09:00  Tester: order #2 is closed

Notice that the previous trade hit the stoploss and the Tester says "stop loss #1 at 1.29190 ..."; but that is *not* what it says for the second trade.  What does "stopped because of Stop Out" mean?  Note it started with a $100,000 starting balance and ended with a -$1,146.35 net loss.  I've never seen this error message before.

Thank you,

Jelks

 
  • What does "stopped because of Stop Out" from the Tester log mean?
  • Means you ran out of money.
 
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