About the backtesting

 

Hi guys. I want to do the back-testing by program control in mql4.

1. using program start the back-test rather than click the start button on strategy tester

2. controlling the setting of back-test parameters such as symbol, period, date etc.

Is it possible for MT4?

 
vindd:

Hi guys. I want to do the back-testing by program control in mql4.

1. using program start the back-test rather than click the start button on strategy tester

2. controlling the setting of back-test parameters such as symbol, period, date etc.

Is it possible for MT4?

This is a good starting point:

https://www.metatrader4.com/en/trading-platform/help/service/start_conf_file

Configuration at Startup - Tools - MetaTrader 4 Help
Configuration at Startup - Tools - MetaTrader 4 Help
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The client terminal can be launched with some predefined settings. For this purpose, the configuration file name will be passed to the client terminal as a parameter. If the full path to the file (Drive:\SubDirectory\FileName) is not given, the file will be searched for in the client terminal's data folder. The configuration file contains...