did it happen to you ?
I often noticed that two backtests of the SAME EA, but for instance one month apart or a few hours even sometimes would give different results. Sometimes even drastic changes (like one winning and then one losing)
I even log the profits and dd, and got different results than before !!
but I would always think that it had to be me that didn't store the settings in the file and the settings got reinitialized somehow.
or maybe I modified the EA
But I JUST had the weirdest thing happening to me right now:
and I got the logs to prove it.
My EA went from "opening one trade at a time and closing it" to opening several orders in the same direction, and closing it in a basket
In the code it's very clear , there is absolutely no way it can happen in any other way
my code absolutely prohibits opening another trade unless there are 0 trades opened
it goes something like this :
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if (nb == true && OrdersTotal() == 0)
{
if (buyLogic)
{
open buy;
nb = false;
}
}
RIGHT?
but that's exactly what happenned : The EA started to behave like an averaging EA, opening more than one order at a time
I could not understand how it was doing that. I was looking at the code again and again, trying to find why It would behave that way, because it was impossible according to the code, so I was smh (scraching my head) and smh (shaking my head) but could not find the "error"
and here is the log to prove it :
first part at the top is the normal behaviour of the EA
second half is the weird strange behaviour
and it happened almost instantly (7 seconds between the two backtests)
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2 15:24:31.267 2010.04.26 03:03:37 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #188 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.54365 ok
2 15:24:31.270 2010.04.26 03:16:42 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #188 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.54365 at price 1.54330
2 15:24:32.319 2010.04.27 05:11:48 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #189 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.54580 ok
2 15:24:32.320 2010.04.27 05:18:55 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #189 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.54580 at price 1.54540
2 15:24:33.341 2010.04.27 23:44:53 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #190 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.52575 ok
2 15:24:33.343 2010.04.28 00:00:18 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #190 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.52575 at price 1.52570
2 15:24:33.425 2010.04.28 03:20:27 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #191 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.52715 ok
2 15:24:33.441 2010.04.28 03:40:50 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #191 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.52715 at price 1.52675
2 15:24:34.654 2010.04.29 05:18:32 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #192 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.51610 ok
2 15:24:34.673 2010.04.29 05:46:55 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #192 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.51610 at price 1.51645
2 15:24:35.557 2010.04.29 21:02:13 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #193 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.53145 ok
2 15:24:35.558 2010.04.29 21:02:42 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #193 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.53145 at price 1.53190
2 15:24:36.573 2010.05.03 00:11:49 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #194 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.52970 ok
3 15:24:45.259 2010.05.11 20:46:00 Tester: stop button pressed
2 15:24:45.262 2010.05.11 20:47:08 Tester: order #194 is closed
0 15:24:45.262 GBPUSD,H1: 6927836 tick events (2088 bars, 167232527 bar states) processed in 0:03:53.906 (total time 0:03:54.125)
0 15:24:46.958 Expert hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: removed
0 15:24:46.974 Expert hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: loaded successfully
3 15:24:53.218 TestGenerator: file "D:\MT\MetaTrader 4 02\tester\history\GBPUSD60_0.fxt" is read-only
3 15:24:53.218 TestGenerator: symbol GBPUSD period 60 model 0 from 2010.01.01 to 2017.05.12
3 15:24:53.218 TestGenerator: server "Tickstory-Demo" differs from "TickmillEU-Demo" terminal connected to
2 15:24:53.231 2010.01.10 00:00:00 hedge 05 inputs: invertCloses=0; SL=0; TP=0; useTs=0; Ts=20; TsInv=20; step=200; stepTP=1200; invert=0; Magic=1; ATRDistPeriod=200; ATRDistMul=0.5; ATRDistMul2=0.1; ATRDistMul3=1; bufferNumOrederTs=5; bb=50; add=0; mul=1; maxMul=100; minMul=-10; averaging=0; limitDDCloseAll=0; VolatilityType=7; MAType=0;
2 15:24:57.329 2010.01.13 21:23:50 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #1 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 ok
2 15:24:57.330 2010.01.13 21:24:21 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #2 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62915 ok
2 15:24:57.330 2010.01.13 21:24:23 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #3 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 ok
2 15:24:57.330 2010.01.13 21:24:35 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #3 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 at price 1.62860
2 15:24:57.330 2010.01.13 21:24:35 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #2 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62915 at price 1.62860
2 15:24:57.330 2010.01.13 21:24:35 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #1 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 at price 1.62860
2 15:24:57.330 2010.01.13 21:30:14 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #4 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 ok
2 15:24:57.331 2010.01.13 21:31:40 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #5 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 ok
2 15:24:57.331 2010.01.13 21:31:56 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #6 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 ok
2 15:24:57.331 2010.01.13 21:33:48 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #6 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 at price 1.62860
2 15:24:57.332 2010.01.13 21:33:48 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #5 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 at price 1.62860
2 15:24:57.332 2010.01.13 21:33:48 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #4 sell 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62900 at price 1.62860
2 15:24:57.336 2010.01.13 22:01:01 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #7 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62765 ok
2 15:24:57.339 2010.01.13 22:13:47 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #8 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62765 ok
2 15:24:57.339 2010.01.13 22:13:49 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #9 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62765 ok
2 15:24:57.339 2010.01.13 22:16:01 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #10 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62755 ok
2 15:24:57.339 2010.01.13 22:16:36 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #11 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62765 ok
2 15:24:57.339 2010.01.13 22:17:16 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: open #12 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62765 ok
2 15:24:57.344 2010.01.13 23:08:57 hedge 05 GBPUSD,H1: close #12 buy 1.00 GBPUSD at 1.62765 at prand yes I reverted every action I did on the EA and tested each step back and I never got back the "averaging" logic
it's totally impossible to have the EA open several sell orders in a row. totally impossible.
so my question is : is Metaquotes messing with the backtesting tool ("just move to MT5 you'll have less issues")? or is it a bug?
this is very strange
did it happen to you ?
WTF is Metaquotes doing or is it a Mandela Effect I just witnessed ?
Jeff
