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No, because you probably tested it in a DEMO account.
The REAL world is imperfect.
MT5's DEMO accounts doesn't obey Book queue, Brokers are imperfect on issuing your orders, Slippage happens all the time, HFT's and Big Algos will eat you ass off, Timeouts will happen even within VPS's and Cloud Servers, and so on, and on, and on...
That's why the most crucial and hard thing to do is to code an Order Management/Trade System for your strategies, not the strategy itself...
Mine, right now, has around 7,000 lines of code, and growing...
;)
No, because you probably tested it in a DEMO account.
The REAL world is imperfect.
MT5's DEMO accounts doesn't obey Book queue, Brokers are imperfect on issuing your orders, Slippage happens all the time, HFT's and Big Algos will eat you ass off, Timeouts will happen even within VPS's and Cloud Servers, and so on, and on, and on...
That's why the most crucial and hard thing to do is to code an Order Management/Trade System for your strategies, not the strategy itself...
Mine, right now, has around 7,000 lines of code, and growing...
;)
Thank you, I guess to clarify with I mean by an EA working properly abd consistenly I mean that it attaches to a chart, stays attached, takes the trade at the time and risk % that it is coded too, day in and day out, without having random errors.
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