Status changed from New to Waiting for information
As Khari Lane says, spread makes results worse, so it could be the reason.
There are some bugs fixed in each build, so it is possible that your strategies worked in SQ 126 because of a bug there.
It is generally good to retest your strategies with a new build.
I agree, there are much lesser strategies with a little spread :
For exemple :
with 1 pip spread I may have 58 accepted stratégies per hour .
with 2 pip spread, I may have 8 accepted stratgies per hour.
This is why I am searching stratégies with 1 pip spread only, otherwise I will not have enough stratégies
The results are really different for me too only with one pip !
is it because of the tic size ? When I look to the multicharts source code of one strategie , the ticksize =minmove/pricescale.
This is not correct, I had to replace it Inside the source with ticksize =0.0001. and here I could get the same results as SQ.
Maybe this is not related, but it look like the multiplier of the spread is too large :
with 1 I am getting 58 accepted strategie per hour ,
with 2 I am getting only 8 accepted stratégies per hour
with 3, I would probably have no strategie
there is too much difference
hankeys,
As I am using multicharts engine, I don't have the min distance option and I still have this big difference
And it is not something that should be simulated or supported in EA, it is simplky a property of a broker how close he allows the price to be to actual Bid/Ask.
Mabi - if your strategies don't match between SQ and MultiCharts then there must be some other reason for it. If you';ll create a task for it and attach a few examples we can look at it.
for market orders the min. distance is totally nonsense, because market order is market order, so when marker building blocks are selected, the min. distance should be hidden or set to 0
for limit and stop strats - the min. distance could have logical use - if i dont want to set my pending orders too close to the price, i could use some min. distance setting
its true, that min. distance was usefull many times age, when brokers dont allow to place pending orders too close to the current price, now the limitation are over and i dont any broker which is the min. distance using for pending orders
but if we have this setting in SQX, the backtest need to be accurate and min. distance need to be solved by MQL code
When I set 0 $ slippage, I have 60 accepted stratgies per hour
When I set only 1 $ slippage, I have only 12 accepted stratgies per hour. This is 5 times less stratégies !
It is a big drop with for a 1$ slippage as well. .
yes, with slippage you will get worse backtest, so by your ranking criteria could lead, that accpeted strats will be lower
Attachment slippage.png added
Usually yes the slippage is in pips, but it can be in $ as well . (see capture attached)
It depend if you choose Metatrader engine or Tradestation/Multicharts engine.
(It would be helpful to have it in pips with Multicharts/Tradestation engine.)
Status changed from Waiting for information to Fixed
We added handling of min distance from price into the strategy code as well.