EA stops trading after a daylights saving date (in strategy tester )

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I am backtesting my EA in the strategy tester and have just moved to a different broker ( admiral markets).

When backtesting my EA which takes trades at the open of a new candle on the daily timeframe, the EA works perfectly until i get to a daylights saving date, after this happens the EA tries to execute a trade and i get the error (Market Closed) even though i have checked the date and this was on a thursday - the forex market is only closed on the weekend.

After i get this error the EA does not take any more trades and the rest of the equity graph is a straight blue line.

Can someone explain why this happens - is it to do with daylight savings, I thought trading on the daily timeframe wouldnt be affected

Also how can i fix this to make my EA work in the strategy tester.

Also i should note that i did not have this problem with my old broker but i moved because some history was missing.

I have added a screenshot of the tester journal below


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samsgtw:

I am backtesting my EA in the strategy tester and have just moved to a different broker ( admiral markets).

When backtesting my EA which takes trades at the open of a new candle on the daily timeframe, the EA works perfectly until i get to a daylights saving date, after this happens the EA tries to execute a trade and i get the error (Market Closed) even though i have checked the date and this was on a thursday - the forex market is only closed on the weekend.

After i get this error the EA does not take any more trades and the rest of the equity graph is a straight blue line.

Can someone explain why this happens - is it to do with daylight savings, I thought trading on the daily timeframe wouldnt be affected

Also how can i fix this to make my EA work in the strategy tester.

Also i should note that i did not have this problem with my old broker but i moved because some history was missing.

I have added a screenshot of the tester journal below


That's not exact, check the trading hours specifications of the considered symbol.

For example :


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