Grid Trading Crude Oil Strategy

The MT5 Oil Trading Strategy Tester in the MT5 platform is the environment used to back test the profitability of an MT5 Automated Oil Expert-Advisor which is an Automated Trading Robot & determine the profitability of this Grid EA automated oil strategy & then Optimize this Grid Expert Advisor to a point where it is giving good profits from its oil automated trading activities.

Note: Before beginning the MT5 Oil Trading Strategy Tester shown below, you must first attach a crude oil trading Automated Oil Trading EA on a MT5 oil chart, by going to the Navigator Window Panel, choosing the oil Grid Trading EA and then right click on it & specify the option 'Attach to Chart', once the Grid Trading EA is attached to the MT5 oil chart it will appear as it is shown below, Then Right-Click on the Automated Oil Trading Expert Advisor, select properties setting and then select the option by Checking/Ticking 'Allow Live Trading' & then continue with the MT5 strategy tester shown below.

The MT5 strategy tester option can be activated from the view menu & it is the second last menu item on View Menu, A short-cut is to Press Ctrl+R MT5 button keys on your keyboard.

The MT5 strategy Tester has the following Parameters for setting up before testing an Automated Oil EA automated crude oil system & also for optimizing the profitability of this oil trading Grid Trading EA.

Automated Oil Expert Advisor: Parameter for choosing which oil trading Grid Trading EA you want to test among those installed on your MT5 crude oil trading platform.

Symbol: The oil instrument for which you as a trader want to test the crude oil trading Automated Oil Expert-Advisor on

Model: Whether to execute based on tick method, open oil prices or control points

Use Date: Set the date to begin the testing and date to end the testing of the crude oil trading Automated Oil EA

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

Period: Crude Oil Trading Chart Timeframe for which to use examples 1 Hour Oil Trading Chart

Optimization: Allow Optimization Settings for your Automated Oil Trading EA Automated Oil Trading Bot

For example to test the above crude oil trading Automated Oil EA on oil for profitability, the settings can be set up as shown above and the MetaTrader trading platform strategy-tester is then run, by clicking 'Start Button'.

Following trade results are generated & an automated oil trader can select to optimize the oil trading Grid Expert Advisor further by changing the Automated Oil Expert-Advisors oil trading settings.

Once the optimization of the crude oil trading Automated Oil Expert-Advisor is accomplished the status bar will show progress, the above status bar shows the progress that the oil trading Grid Trading Expert Advisor testing is complete.

To view the click on options high lighted above (Optimization Results, Optimization Graph, Journal)

Before running this Grid Trading Oil Strategy - Intraday Grid Trading Oil Strategy for Automated Oil Expert Advisor testing you must go to navigator panel, double-click on this oil trading Grid Trading EA to attach it to the crude oil chart & set the parameters as shown below by ticking the options provided below:

After setting the above settings then you can test your automated oil strategy within the MetaTrader 5 strategy-tester.

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

Grid Trading Oil Strategy