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Need Help On Optimization Result

I find it hard to decide an optimal setting from the result of an optimization. Could anyone please tell me which is the best to choose from an optimization result , the lowest drawdown , the profit factor or any other thing that I should consider? Thanks

Old Holy Grail?

I bactested my expert advisor which is based purely on price action strategy. It show great results between 1999 - 2007 but failed badly between 2007 - 2010. I tried & tested every year, capital size, lot size and other possible ways that I know but the result is still similiar. I've also tested it

Comment Error?

I created a very, very simple expert advisor with a very simple strategy. I have run several backtests on few brokers with no error. However, when I run demo or forward test on broker FXOpen (ECN Demo Server), it show some comment which I cannot figure out why. My expert advisor do not have any

Strategy Tester Limitation

Is there any documentation on MetaTrader 4 Strategy Tester limitations? I'm optimizing a combination of more than 10496 in the Strategy Tester, does it mean that optimization stop after 10496? What actually happen to the combinations after 10496? Thanks

Question About Indicator Variable

Hi All, I'm a newbie & kind of confused by the snippet below. Could anyone explain what is actually the 'shift' or it's exact function in simple explanation? int shift = 1; double x1 = iCustom(NULL, 0,"iX", 1, 2, 3, 4, 1 , shift ); double x2 = iCustom(NULL, 0,"iX", 1, 2, 3, 4, 0 , shift + 1); I need