Comments on: The MetaTrader 4 Backtesting Blues – Track 1 http://trading-gurus.com/the-metatrader-4-backtesting-blues-track-1/ Automated Trading Systems and Robots Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:52:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jim http://trading-gurus.com/the-metatrader-4-backtesting-blues-track-1/#comment-1472 Jim Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:27:47 +0000 http://trading-gurus.com/?p=807#comment-1472 Hi Jon, Thanks for your suggestion. That works well for fixed spread brokers like FXDD and Smart Live Markets. Unfortunately if you try that on the Alpari UK demo account we used for these tests it says the spread is zero! The numbers I quoted were taken from our own logs of spreads on that same account, at the time the backtest was run. Jim Hi Jon,

Thanks for your suggestion. That works well for fixed spread brokers like FXDD and Smart Live Markets. Unfortunately if you try that on the Alpari UK demo account we used for these tests it says the spread is zero!

The numbers I quoted were taken from our own logs of spreads on that same account, at the time the backtest was run.

Jim

]]> By: Jon http://trading-gurus.com/the-metatrader-4-backtesting-blues-track-1/#comment-1471 Jon Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:06:13 +0000 http://trading-gurus.com/?p=807#comment-1471 If you click symbol properties, you can see the spread being used in the backtest If you click symbol properties, you can see the spread being used in the backtest

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