Help needed. Please

Hi Voly,

Can you please try another EA to see if that works? Otherwise the next step to trouble-shoot would maybe to add some lines to the EA to print out a message so you know it’s doing something.

Hope this helps.

Hi Voly,

Have you tried to print an error message to the screen to see if the EA is running? Does the progress indicator on the Strategy Tester move at all?

Try creating a simple EA by copying and pasting the following code in a new MQ4 file and see if you see the output in the Tester’s ‘Journal’ window :

#property copyright "Copyright 2012, MetaQuotes Software Corp."

#property link      "http://www.metaquotes.net"



int init()

{

Print("Initialising..");

return(0);

}

int deinit()

{

return(0);

}

int start()

{

Print("Running..");

return(0);

}

Regards.

The in-built Tickstory launcher will provide you with the ability to do fixed spread back-testing. TDS has a few more advanced features if you need them.

Regards.

Hi Voly – if you are seeing the “Running” message, this indicates that the strategy tester is working correctly. It is possible that your EA is not functioning correctly. Check the Journal tab to see if its raising any error messages.

Regards.

Hi Voly – if you are not getting a 99.9% modelling quality then you have not followed the correct steps as outlined in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rMOen4UHg

You will need to regenerate your export again and ensure that you have launched your Metatrader via Tickstory (as shown in the video).

Hope this helps.