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Slow BT on MT5

Hello, I've finally write an ea multipair for MT5 (5 pairs). But when I launch a BT with " Every tick " model I see that the local agent is used only for 0.2%. Obviously the BT is dramatically slow. I've always supposed that MT5 is about a joke, and I would like to know if this behaviour is normal

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Swap calculation in tester.

Hello, in spite of myself, I decided to convert a new expert advisor that I wrote in mq4 on the mq5 language. There is a big issue in MT5 tester I've found seeing backtest . The swap cost are applied at a fixed value that is not related to the size of the order: Here two lines of two backtests

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iBarShift wrong response

Hello, I've found a wrong response from IBarShift. On the MQL4 user manual iBarShift reports : "Returned value Bar shift with the open time specified. If the bar having the specified open time is missing, the function will return -1 or the nearest bar shift depending on the exact. " It writes the

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History holes from Metaquotes.

Hello, I've read in many places that history downloaded from Metaquotes is not the best, but I use for backtesting. I've found a "little" hole on GBPUSD. Is present on more brokers platform after history download from Metaquotes. This is the problem. Alpari. Jade. GoMarket. This after downloading