Hello! I'm trying to upload the robot to the marketplace but I get this message : tester takes too long time - what does it mean?

[Dmitri Speranski]

Hello! I'm trying to upload the robot to the marketplace but I get this message : tester takes too long time - what does it mean?

[William Roeder]

It means you are takes a huge time per tick or never returning from OnTick at all, so the tester can't verify your EA. Fix your broken EA.

1. EAs : Don't do per tick what you can do per bar, or on open.
   If you are waiting for a level, don't reevaluate, wait until price reaches it (or a new bar starts, and you recalculate.)
   If you are waiting for an order to close, only look when OrdersTotal (or MT5 equivalent) has changed.
             How to get backtesting faster ? - MT4 - MQL4 programming forum (2017)

2. Indicators: Code it properly so it only recomputes bar zero (after the initial run).
             How to do your lookbacks correctly. (2016)
             3 Methods of Indicators Acceleration by the Example of the Linear Regression - MQL5 Articles. (2011)

[Carl Schreiber]

At first I would run the profiling on hist.  data in the editor.

[Sergey Golubev]

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tester takes too long time

Sergey Golubev, 2022.01.11 07:59

There are errors in your products.
because the validation system is checking everything which was checked in your code (min/max lot size, and more).

There is forum thread about it: Strategy Tester Report not found

..and there is an article:

交易机器人在市场发布前必须经过的检验 - the article

And some discussion is on this thread:

Automatic checking of products in the Market (questions and suggestions) - page 5

to make it shorter -

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tester takes too long time

Ugochukwu Mobi, 2022.04.11 06:41

You need to optmize your codes