Grid Expert-Advisor

The MT4 Commodity Trading Strategy Tester in the MT4 platform is the environment used to back-test the profitability of an MetaTrader 4 Automated Commodity Trading Expert-Advisor which is an Automated Trading Bot & determine the profitability of this Grid Trading Commodities EA automated commodity strategy & then Optimize this Grid Bot to a point where it's giving good profits from its commodity automated trading activities.

Note: Before beginning MetaTrader 4 Commodity Strategy Tester illustrated & shown below, you must first attach a commodities trading Automated Commodity Trading Expert Advisor on a MT4 commodity chart, by going to the Navigator Window Panel, selecting the Grid Robot and then right-click on it and specify the option 'Attach to Chart', once the Grid Bot is attached to the MT4 commodity chart it will appear as it is shown below, Then Right-Click on the Automated Commodity Trading Expert Advisor, select properties setting and then select 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 and it is the second last menu item on View Menu, A short cut is to Press Ctrl+R MT4 buttons on your keyboard.

The MT4 strategy Tester has the following Parameters for setting up before testing an Automated Commodity EA automated commodities trading system & also for optimizing the profitability of this commodity trading Grid Bot.

Automated Commodity Trading EA: Parameter for choosing which commodity trading Grid Bot you want to test among those installed on your MT4 software.

Symbol: The commodity instrument for which you as a trader want to test the commodities trading Automated Commodity Expert-Advisor on

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

Use Date: Set the date to start the testing & the date to end the testing of the commodities trading Automated Commodity EA

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

Period: Commodities Trading Chart Timeframe for which to use example 1 Hour Commodity Trading Chart

Optimization: Allow Optimization Settings for your Automated Commodity Expert-Advisor Automated Commodity Bot

For example to test the above commodities trading Automated Commodity EA on commodity for profitability, settings can be setup as displayed & shown above and MetaTrader strategy tester is then run, by pressing & clicking on the 'Start Button Key'.

The following trade results are generated and an automated commodity trader can select to optimize the commodity trading Grid Bot further by changing the Automated Commodity Trading EAs trading settings.

Once the optimization of the commodities trading Automated Commodity Trading EA is complete the status bar will show progress, the above status bar displays the progress that the commodity trading Grid Trading Bot testing is complete.

To view click on options highlighted above (Optimization Results, Optimization Graph, Journal)

Before running this Grid Commodity Strategy - Intraday Grid Commodity Trading Strategy for Automated Commodity Trading EA testing you must go to navigator window, double-click on this commodity trading Grid Bot to attach it to the commodities chart & set the parameters as illustrated and shown below by ticking the options provided below:

After setting the above settings then you can test your automated commodity strategy within the MetaTrader 4 strategy-tester.

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

Intraday Grid Commodity Trade Strategies Optimization Results

Intraday Grid Commodities Trading Strategy Optimization Graph

Intraday Grid Commodity Trading Strategies Balance & Equity Graph

Intraday Grid Commodity Trading Strategy Profit and Loss Graph - Grid Trading Commodities Robot - Grid Bot - Grid MetaTrader 4

Above is just a brief introduction to the MetaTrader 4 strategies tester - automated trading with Grid Bot Commodity Trading Bots is a wide topic that a trader will take some time and research to learn about but the main environment to test & optimize the commodities trading Automated Commodity EA automated commodities trading robot will be Intraday Grid Commodity Trading Strategy.

NB: You can only implement an Automated Commodity Expert-Advisor using data that has been downloaded and saved on your MetaTrader 4 platform, 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 commodity trading Grid Bot would trade.