Grid Trading Expert Advisor

The MetaTrader 4 CFD Trading Strategy Tester in the MT4 platform is the environment used to backtest the profitability of an MetaTrader 4 Automated CFDs Expert-Advisor which is an Automated Trading Software & determine the profitability of this Grid CFD EA automated cfd strategy and then Optimize this Grid Robot to a point where it is giving good profits from its cfd automated trading activities.

Note: Before beginning the MT4 CFD Trading Strategy Tester shown & illustrated below, you must first attach a cfd Automated CFDs Expert Advisor on a MT4 cfds trading chart, by going to the Navigator Window, choosing the cfd trading Grid Bot & then right click on the it & specify the option "Attach to Chart", once the Grid Trading Robot is attached to the MT4 cfd chart it will appear as it is illustrated below, Then Right Click on the Automated CFDs Expert Advisor, select properties and then select the option by Checking/Ticking "Allow Live Trading" & then continue with the MT4 strategy tester shown below.

The MT4 strategies tester option can be activated from the view menu & it's the second last menu item on View Menu, A short-cut is to Press Ctrl+R MetaTrader 4 buttons on your keyboard.

The MetaTrader 4 strategy Tester has the following Parameters for setting up before testing an Automated CFDs Expert Advisor automated cfd system & also for optimizing the profitability of this cfd Grid Robot.

Automated CFDs Expert Advisor: Parameter for selecting which cfd Grid Trading Bot you want to test among those installed on your MetaTrader 4 software.

Symbol: The cfd chart for which you want to test the cfd Automated CFDs EA on

Model: Whether to execute based on tick technique, open cfd prices or control points

Use Date: Set the date to begin the testing & the date to end the testing of the cfd Automated CFDs Expert-Advisor

Visual Mode: Choose To view the illustration of where this cfd Grid Trading Robot opens and closes cfd trade as testing goes on, there is also a slide bar to increase or decrease the speed for this visual mode.

Period: CFD Trading Chart Time Frame for which to use example 1 H CFD Trading Chart

Optimization: Allow Optimization Setting for your Automated CFDs Expert Advisor Automated CFD Robot

For example to test the above cfd Automated CFDs EA on the cfd trading for profitability, the settings can be set up as illustrated above & the MetaTrader trading platform strategies tester is then run, by clicking "Start Button".

Following trade results are generated & an automated cfd trader can choose to optimize the cfd Grid Trading Robot further by changing the Automated CFDs Expert Advisors cfd settings.

Once the optimization of the cfd Automated CFDs Expert-Advisor is complete the status bar will show progress, the above status bar shows the progress that the cfd Grid Robot testing is complete.

To view result click the options high lighted above (Optimization Result, Optimization Graph, Journal)

Before running this Grid CFD Trading Strategy - Intraday Grid CFD Trading Strategy for Automated CFDs Expert-Advisor testing you must go to navigator window panel, doubleclick on this cfd Grid Trading Robot to attach it to the cfds chart & set the parameters as shown and illustrated below by checking the options provided below:

After setting the above settings then you can test your automated cfd strategy within the MT4 strategy tester.

Once you Run your Automated CFDs Expert Advisor the Results will be shown on the following windows

Intraday Grid CFD Strategy Optimization Results

Intraday Grid CFDs Trading Strategies Optimization Graph

Intraday Grid CFD Trading Strategy Balance & Equity Graph

Intraday Grid CFD Strategy Profit & Loss Graph - Grid Trading CFDs Trading Bot - Grid Trading Robot - Grid MT4

The above is just a brief introduction to MetaTrader 4 strategies tester - automated trading with Grid Trading Robot CFD Robots is a wide topic that a trader will take some time & research to learn about but the main environment to test & optimize the cfd Automated CFDs Expert Advisor automated cfd robot will be the Intraday Grid CFD Trading Strategy.

Note: You can only implement an Automated CFDs Expert Advisor using data which has been downloaded and saved on your MetaTrader 4 software, therefore for the date settings select the dates that you have been trading with your MT4 to get a graph representation of how your automated cfd Grid Trading Robot would trade.