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How Long Is the Survival Rate of Martingle EA?

Does anyone here use martingale ea, or martingle-based strategy in their ea? What is the survival rate like, or how long have you use them? It seems like it is mathematically NOT impossible to implement this successfully -- hope to hear your take on this. This idea is derived from the St.Petersburg

Is this possible for next month?

This test was from last trading month to current. Everyday, the system puts 1 trade, its best shot for the day. If its good, it continues to fill, or else it postpones the next day. And unbelievably the tester says, all the best shots are winners. 23 straight home runs, the whole month thru - now

Silly Qns#2 on Optimization Result

I have these results finally after completed optimization based on Drawdown, for a period of 1 year. My question is just so silly, but i cant help asking: what these optimization results tells me? and what now? also, Which pass is true, and which ones are fake? The picture is below, and the htm file

MQL4 Bug??

if ( iBarShift ( Symbol (), Period (), OrderOpenTime ()< 1 )) for some unbeknown reason, the above nonsense no error

What do you think of this "Evil Grail" Approach to EAs?

Suppose you create an EA. A very, very simple EA, with just a simple, one logic. Run on the tester, and it turns out the worser, the better. This becomes your "Evil Grail ". Next, just reverse that evil grail's logic. Continue with the next logic... Will this be an easier approach to have a better

setting library function parameters to default. Is this ok?

I have this function stored as library function. It is import in a header file: double hseGambit( double aPrice[], double bPrice[], int deal1= 0 , int deal2= 0 , int players=- 1 ); My question is about those 3 int parameters (highlighted in red) set to respective default values. If the EA call the

Silly Qns On Optimization Report

I read the article: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1486 What the Numbers in the Expert Testing Report Mean But I still cant get rid of these overly silly but almost disturbing questions, so hope pls bear with them. It about the report below. After pulling off this 1+ year optimization, as you can

Back Test vs Forward Test: In Picture.

This balance sheet, says it all. Picture speaks a thousand words. For a total of 50+ recent trades, the breakdown of approach towards making my EA, is explained in the chart. I recalled not too long ago, Strategy tester keeps failing me to the point of no answers. Without any answers, I am