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COVID years - relevance for testing?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:54 am
by vr4g
Hi all!
I made an EA for MT4 and it is yielding nice results ? - about 300% (please comment if this is good or not) for the period from Jan1/2022 onwards but most of the drawdown was during 2022. Now my question is since it was still a COVID year, how relevant are those drawdowns for the testing and of course all previous COVID years as well ?
Re: COVID years - relevance for testing?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:13 am
by Starfish
vr4g wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:54 am
Hi all!
I made an EA for MT4 and it is yielding nice results ? - about 300% (please comment if this is good or not) for the period from Jan1/2022 onwards but most of the drawdown was during 2022. Now my question is since it was still a COVID year, how relevant are those drawdowns for the testing and of course all previous COVID years as well ?
Hope you chose the right tick source in strategy tester
Or is it on demo?
those drawdowns are relevant because that means a sharp trend change occurred or positioning wasnt tight enough or slippage got through
I got the hedge black dragon ea on mt5 but it only works in direction of the trend
Re: COVID years - relevance for testing?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:17 am
by vr4g
tick source is ok - i'm more woried about the relevance since 2022 as other covid years were hectic times ...
Re: COVID years - relevance for testing?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:23 am
by Starfish
vr4g wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:17 am
tick source is ok - i'm more woried about the relevance since 2022 as other covid years were hectic times ...
If its on 5m probably even worse relevance
Re: COVID years - relevance for testing?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:57 am
by vr4g
4h is the timeframe used
Re: COVID years - relevance for testing?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:06 am
by Starfish
hmm i dont think there should be anything above 20-30% drawdown on that timeframe
or something else is really missing