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Old 02-26-2008, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by ElectricSavant View Post
Bebop,

You must of hit a maxtrade SL..

I think at the slow times you can turn autorestart off...but not really sure yet....when you had the cliff what time was it?

I have seen a graph like that before and always at the end the backtester does this...I think it is not real...but I could be in denial...can you visually look at those trades?

ES
You are in denial: that cliff comes from the tester closing off all open trade at the last price just as it finishes. It's very easy to make an EA be profitable up to that point: just don't use any SL, and make sure you have more than the cash for the old Volvo as starting balance.
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