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The MT4 Commodities Trading Strategy Tester in the MT4 platform is the environment used to back-test the profitability of an MT4 Automated Commodity Trading Expert-Advisor which is an Automated Trading Bot and determine the profitability of this How to Implement a Successful Grid Trading Strategy PDF automated commodity strategy & then Optimize this Automated Grid Trading Strategy to a point where it is giving good profits from its commodity automated trading activities.
Note: Before beginning MT4 Commodities Trading Strategy Tester shown and illustrated below, you must first attach a commodity Automated Commodity Trading EA on a MT4 commodities trading chart, by going to the Navigator Window Panel, choosing the commodities trading Automated Grid Strategy and then right click on it & specify the option "Attach to Chart", once the Automated Grid Trading Strategy is attached to the MT4 commodity chart it will appear as it is shown below, Then Right-Click on the Automated Commodity Trading EA, select properties & then select the option by Checking/Ticking "Allow Live Trading" and then continue with the MT4 strategy tester shown below.
The MetaTrader 4 strategy-tester option can be activated from the view menu and it is the second last menu item on View Menu, A short cut is to Press Ctrl+R MetaTrader 4 buttons on your key-board.
The MT4 strategy Tester has the following Parameters for setting up before testing an Automated Commodity EA automated commodity system & also for optimizing the profitability of this commodity Automated Grid Trading Strategy.
Automated Commodity Expert Advisor: Parameter for choosing which commodity Automated Grid Trading Strategy you want to test among those installed on your MT4 commodities trading platform.
Symbol: The commodity chart for which you want to test the commodity Automated Commodity EA on
Model: Whether to execute based on tick technique, open commodities prices or control points
Use Date: Set the date to start the testing and the date to end the testing of the commodity Automated Commodity Trading EA
Visual Mode: Choose To view the illustration of where this commodity Automated Grid Trading Strategy opens & closes commodity trade as testing goes on, there is also a slide bar to increase or decrease speed for this visual mode.
Period: Commodity Trading Chart Time-Frame for which to use example 1 Hour Commodity Trading Chart
Optimization: Allow Optimization Settings for your Automated Commodity EA Automated Commodity Robot
For example to test the above commodity Automated Commodity Trading EA on the commodity trading for profitability, the settings can be setup as displayed and shown above and the MetaTrader platform strategy tester is then run, by taping the "Start Button".
The following trade results are generated & an automated commodity trader can select to optimize the commodity Automated Grid Trading Strategy further by changing the Automated Commodity Trading EAs commodity settings.
Once the optimization of the commodity Automated Commodity Trading EA is complete the status bar will show progress, the above status bar shows the progress that the commodity Automated Grid Trading Strategy testing is complete.
To view result click on options highlighted above (Optimization Result, Optimization Graph, Journal)
Before running this Grid Commodity Trading Strategy - Intraday Grid Commodity Trading Strategy for Automated Commodity Trading EA testing you must go to the navigator window, double click on this commodity Automated Grid Trading Strategy to attach it to the commodity chart and set the parameters as displayed and illustrated below by ticking the options provided below:
After setting the above settings then you can test your automated commodity strategy within the MT4 strategy tester.
Once you Run your Automated Commodity Trading EA the Results will be displayed on the following windows
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Grid Commodity Trading Strategy - Intraday Grid Commodity Trading Strategy Profit and Loss Graph - Automated Grid Commodity Trading Strategy - Automated Grid Trading Strategy
The above is just a brief introduction to the MetaTrader 4 strategies tester - automated trading with Automated Grid Trading Strategy Commodity Trading Bots is a wide topic that a trader will take some time & research to learn about but the main environment to test & optimize the commodity Automated Commodity EA automated commodity bot will be the Grid Commodity Trading Strategy - Intraday Grid Commodity Trading Strategy.
NB: You can only implement an Automated Commodity Trading EA using data that has been downloaded and saved on your MT4 commodities trading platform, therefore for the date settings choose the dates that you've been trading with your MT4 to get a graph representation of how your automated commodity Automated Grid Trading Strategy would trade.
