Grid Strategy

The MT4 Stocks Trading Strategy Tester in the MT4 platform is the environment used to backtest the profitability of an MT4 Automated Stock Expert Advisor which is an Automated Robot & determine the profitability of this Grid Stocks EA automated stocks strategy and then Optimize this Grid Bot to a point where it's giving good profits from its stocks automated trading activities.

Note: Before beginning MetaTrader 4 Stocks Trading Strategy Tester shown below, you must first attach a stocks Automated Stock Expert Advisor on a MT4 stock trading chart, by going to the Navigator Window Panel, choosing the stocks trading Grid Robot and then right click on it and specify the option "Attach to Chart", once the Grid Trading Bot is attached to the MT4 stocks chart it will appear as it is shown below, Then Right-Click on the Automated Stock Expert Advisor, choose property setting & then choose the option by Checking/Ticking "Allow Live Trading" and then continue with the MT4 strategy tester shown below.

The MetaTrader 4 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 Stock Expert Advisor automated stocks system & also for optimizing the profitability of this stocks Grid Bot.

Automated Stock Expert Advisor: Parameter for selecting which stocks Grid Trading Bot you want to test among those installed on your MT4 stock platform.

Symbol: The stocks chart for which you want to test the stocks Automated Stock EA on

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

Use Date: Set the date to start the testing & the date to end the testing of the stocks Automated Stock Expert-Advisor

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

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

Optimization: Allow Optimization Setting for your Automated Stock Expert Advisor Automated Stocks Robot

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

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

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

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

Before running this Grid Stocks Strategy - Intraday Grid Stocks Trading Strategy for Automated Stock Expert-Advisor testing you must navigate to the navigator window panel, doubleclick on this stocks Grid Trading Bot to attach it to the stock chart and set the parameters as displayed below by ticking the options provided below:

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

Once you Run your Automated Stock Expert Advisor the Results will be displayed on the following windows

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Grid Stocks Strategy - Intraday Grid Stocks Strategy Profit and Loss Graph - Grid Trading Stocks Trading Bot - Grid Trading Robot

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

Note: You can only implement an Automated Stock Expert Advisor using data which has been downloaded and saved on your MT4 stock 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 stocks Grid Trading Robot would trade.