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Old 01-25-2007, 11:06 AM
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1. Motivation.

In this part of article the author said that it is very good that we can backtest EAs in visual mode in Metatrader. Abd he wants to present the way about how to backtest manual trading systems using Metatrader's visual mode without EA creation.

2. Preparation.

So everybody can use Metatrader's strategy tester in visual mode?
Well. First of all you need to download all necessary files to your computer:

- place vHandsTrade.mq4 in \MetaTrader 4\experts\ directory;
- place VisualTestingTools.mq4 file in \MetaTrader 4\experts\include\;
- place two indicators (vTerminal.mq4 and vHistory.mq4) in \MetaTrader 4 Work\experts\indicators\.

And after that compile vHandsTrade EA in MetaEditor. You should not get any errors:



After that you may create template for testin (tpl file). To do that please open any chart, attach vTerminal and vHistory.mq4 indicators and save this template under the name vHandsTrade.tpl:





Please note: you should switch 'Chart shift' option on:

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