Topics created by avrahambr

there is: https://docs.mql4.com/dateandtime/timecurrent

Thank you, I will try!

grid by AlphaOmega is based on trading probability if your strategy is based on that ... lets say your strategy is selling highs - and this is probability because the more highs you sell, the greater chance to hit one right ....
... but there are indicators which are blindly showing arrows or something similiar and this is not good way ...

If you want to get the current hour, for example if now is 13:05 and you want to get 13, then in MT4 you can try this:

TimeHour(TimeCurrent())

... where TimeCurrent() gives you the current server time as a number of seconds since 1.1.1970. TimeHour() obviously gets that number of seconds and gives you the current hour back.

Instead of TimeCurrent() you can use TimeLocal() or TimeGMT().

It's interesting that TimeHour() doesn't exist in MQL5, so it is a little but more complicated.

In "Buy now" and "Sell now" you also have few Money Management methods. Basically this is the way to decide the next lot size based on the lot sizes and the profits of the previous trade/s. One of the methods is "Betting: Custom sequence" where you can select what lot sizes to use when the previous trades were losses or profits. I don't know whether this helps, but you can try it 🙂 Also the Martingale itself is customizable.

Until you can provide more information about your backtesting we can't help.
There's no point trying to get your system to give better results if your testing is low quality, you need to get 99% testing quality with genetic options disabled.

First thing is to get quality tick data.
If you're using MT4 look at getting Tick Data Suite:
https://eareview.net/tick-data-suite
Then get some tick data, if you can get it from your broker then do that, otherwise you can get Dukascopy data using StrategyQuant Tick Downloader:
https://strategyquant.com/tickdownloader/

If you're using MT5 then you can download tick data on the platform in the Symbols section, though I've heard some brokers only provide a limited history range.
If you can't download enough history (2+ years would be recommended) you might have to create a Custom Symbol then import the data for testing:
https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/3540

If you're trading on MT4, consider making a copy of your EA design for MT5 as it supports multi-threaded backtesting so is much faster for optimisation, provided you have a CPU with many cores... 😉

If you share a link to your EA here you might find that others will also test it and possibly suggest improvements...

I saw that i had to enable popups from fxdreema. I didn't see it before.

Initiallyl yes. But do some testing before moving one because different brokers use different pip size on the same symbol very often.

Thank you Miro!

Here is the log about the critical error!
0_1520929816957_critical error 001-trial with tickstory data.jpg

try this way to download the real tick data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcd_VBaR1P0

@miro1360
Thanks Miro!

@beatking
No troubles. I will have to look at it when i am not tired.
Thanks