I downloaded MT5 over the weekend to test a public ea and also to see how it works and possibly begin porting some of my MT4 eas to MT5.
However, I can not get the MT5 tester to complete a simple backtest. It goes through all the motions but takes zero trades. There are no error messages, just the standard pre backtest messages in the journal stating how much history and which parameters were used. I've tried all kinds of permutations. Same result. What could I be doing wrong?
I also tried backtesting the sample MovingAverage and MACD eas included with MT5 with different settings. Nothing. Blank. Just the same starting equity, no trades.
It should be simple and straightforward, unfortunately it hasn't been. Is there a setting or something that needs to be set before a backtest can be run in MT5?
However, I can not get the MT5 tester to complete a simple backtest. It goes through all the motions but takes zero trades. There are no error messages, just the standard pre backtest messages in the journal stating how much history and which parameters were used. I've tried all kinds of permutations. Same result. What could I be doing wrong?
I also tried backtesting the sample MovingAverage and MACD eas included with MT5 with different settings. Nothing. Blank. Just the same starting equity, no trades.
It should be simple and straightforward, unfortunately it hasn't been. Is there a setting or something that needs to be set before a backtest can be run in MT5?