It may be good to backtest/optimize the EA with the broker's account which will be used for trading.
And if you are on MT5 so you will need the following information:
Testing trading strategies on real ticks and the explanation is on this post.
Testing trading strategies on real ticks
- www.mql5.com
The article provides the results of testing a simple trading strategy in three modes: " 1 minute OHLC " using only Open, High, Low and Close prices of minute bars; detailed modeling in " Every tick " mode, as well as the most accurate " Every tick based on real ticks " mode applying actual historical data. Comparing the results allows us to...
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Hi
I've been struggling with this idea of EA optimisation and implementation and please let me know what you think or experience in this matter.
I heard that for EA implementation, Demo account is more reliable than the Live account. But what about optimisation, I know we supposed to optimise EA using live account.
However, what if the backtesting result is better in the live account than demo account ? should we still implement EA in the demo account then ?