Grid Trading Software
The MT5 Commodity Trading Strategy Tester in the MT5 platform is the environment used to back test the profitability of an MT5 Automated Commodity Trading Expert-Advisor which is an Automated Trading Bot & determine the profitability of this Grid EA automated commodity strategy & then Optimize this Grid Trading EA to a point where it is giving good profits from its commodity automated trading activities.
Note: Before beginning the MT5 Commodity Strategy Tester illustrated & shown below, you must first attach a commodities trading Automated Commodity Trading Expert Advisor on a MT5 commodity chart, by going to the Navigator Window Panel, selecting the Grid EA & then right-click on it and specify the option 'Attach to Chart', once the Grid Trading EA is attached to the MT5 commodity chart it will appear as it is shown below, Then Right-Click on the Automated Commodity Trading EA, choose properties setting and then choose option by Checking/Ticking 'Allow Live Trading' & then continue with the MT5 strategy tester illustrated & shown below.
The MT5 strategy tester option can be activated from the view menu and it is second last menu item on the View Menu, A short Cut is to Press Ctrl+R MetaTrader 5 button keys on your keyboard.
The MT5 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 Trading EA.
Automated Commodity Trading EA: Parameter for choosing which commodity trading Grid Trading EA you want to test among those installed on your MT5 platform.
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 Trading Expert Advisor 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 Expert Advisor 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 Expert Advisor testing is complete.
To view click on options highlighted above (Optimization Results, Optimization Graph, Journal)
Before running this Grid Trading Commodity Strategy - Intraday Grid Trading Commodity Strategy for Automated Commodity Trading EA testing you must go to navigator window, double-click on this commodity trading Grid Trading EA 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 5 strategy-tester.
Once you Run your Automated Commodity Expert-Advisor the Results will be shown on the following windows
Intraday Grid Trading Commodity Strategy Optimization Results
Intraday Grid Trading Commodity Strategy Optimization Graph
Intraday Grid Trading Commodity Strategy Balance and Equity Graph
Intraday Grid Trading Commodity Strategy Profit and Loss Graph - Grid Commodities Bot - Grid Trading Commodity EA - Grid Trading Excel
The above is just a brief introduction to MT5 strategy tester - automated trading with Grid Trading EA 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 Trading Commodity Strategy.
NB: You can only implement an Automated Commodity Expert-Advisor using data that has been downloaded and saved on your MT5 platform, therefore for the date settings select the dates that you have been trading with your MT5 to get a graph representation of how your automated commodity trading Grid EA would trade.
