How big was the data file you were trying to import? How big was the .hst file before you tried to import? How big was the .hst file after? MT4 takes awhile to load all the data because it's parsing and converting it. You try typing in 3 million ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

Thanks for the heads up Squalou I'll start looking around.

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Sure

Old Dog with New Tricks

Okay. In an effort to stop the posts saying "it doesn't work" I updated this EA to take care of the one thing most people who download this EA seem to miss. I also put in a modest animation that the EA plays when optimizing itself. If you see that ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

You probably don't have enough bars on the chart? As for the "Reject" thing, just change the one line I told you to change. If the EA doesn't see a set of settings that meet the criteria then yes that's what you're supposed to see.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Did you read the source code? There are instructions on activating the EA.

Old Dog with New Tricks

@faze, what about trying default settings?

Old Dog with New Tricks

If they were stored in GlobalVariables (F3 in MT4), then yes

Does restarting MT4 reset the EA flags?

And that there is the problem with this system. The spread will eat you alive.

Please help turn my idea into an EA

When you close MT4, anything with a deint() function is triggered. When you restart MT4, anything with an int() function is triggered. So, no, the variable values will be lost.

Does restarting MT4 reset the EA flags?

I should probably explain the minimum filters. If you set more than one minimum filter, any qualifying strategy needs to meet all the criteria. That's not always the case, so when I use those minimum, I just set one of them.

Old Dog with New Tricks

The EA couldn't find any settings which met your criteria for that hour. Array win and array loss have values, right?

Old Dog with New Tricks

Try the 1M timeframe, and use 5 times the number of bars. Did you change the license string? This new version naturally has it set to "Reject". Looks like the attached image.

Old Dog with New Tricks

To those of you having trouble... What system is the EA trading? SL? TP? Hour? Style? There are several occasions where this EA stands aside because the stats are too close in a given hour.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Run the tester in visual mode, check for the box.

Generic Breakout Version 7 [TD]

SuccessScore is calculated as Winrate * (Reward / Risk). I think the absolute bare minimum is 50.

Old Dog with New Tricks

No... and you do realize you set your TP/SL to 2 pips, right?

Old Dog with New Tricks

zoogle has alerted me to an interesting bug. Attached is the fixed code. The same inputs from this post still apply. I also added [TD] capability. [edit] Make sure you read the terms and conditions in the source code.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Set ECNBroker to true

Old Dog with New Tricks

Set SLMultiplier to 1.0 and please please pretty please read the first post. I'm pretty sure everything was explained clearly.

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