Testing a basket EA

[Jedster]

Guys,

I'm proofing an idea I have at the moment, and the initial testing shows that the idea might be quite sound. However, I think it is likely that other trades would also trigger at the same time but for different pairs. So it might be better to allow the EA to effectively create a basket and then close out when it hits a % profit for the whole basket.

I know this is an age old problem with Empty4, but how do you go about testing (and backtesting) the basket EA? It can't be done in the Empty4 backtester because of the single symbol limitations and cAlgo (which I'm also playing with) has the same limitation.

It looks like, my options are either to re-write it for MT5 so that I can use the back tester to span multiple instruments, or to just struggle by manually testing in a demo environment.

How do you guys go about tackling this?

Thanks

J

[phil_trade]

Guys,

I'm proofing an idea I have at the moment, and the initial testing shows that the idea might be quite sound. However, I think it is likely that other trades would also trigger at the same time but for different pairs. So it might be better to allow the EA to effectively create a basket and then close out when it hits a % profit for the whole basket.

I know this is an age old problem with Empty4, but how do you go about testing (and backtesting) the basket EA? It can't be done in the Empty4 backtester because of the single symbol limitations and cAlgo (which I'm also playing with) has the same limitation.

It looks like, my options are either to re-write it for MT5 so that I can use the back tester to span multiple instruments, or to just struggle by manually testing in a demo environment.

How do you guys go about tackling this?

Thanks

J

Hello

I'm using ForexTester and C# or Delphi.

Philippe