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MT5 Insists on downloading unrelated symbol history when backtesting

This is something that's been bugging me for awhile and I've tried searching for information but not found anything. Whenever I initiate a backtest via MT5 Strategy Tester , with my own EA which is set to only work with EURUSD -- it begins immediately downloading the tick history for EURAUD, then

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MT5 Stategy Tester Starts with Wrong Balance

Tried searching for others with this issue but no luck. I recently finished converting my MQL4 EA over to MQL5 so that I could use the MT5 Strategy Tester for backtesting. Initially I'm pretty certain it wasn't doing this, but now no matter what I set the 'Deposit' setting to in Strategy Tester