Best of luck!

Thank you very much!

PS I've discarded the strategy going forward as I think it's overfitted - but at least the faulty indicator has been discovered and fixed.

Thanks again!

Mark, I've fixed one bug. Please test it also, I got it to work much better now.

Download the file and put it in the following folder: Forex Strategy Builder Pro\User Files\MT4 Files\MQL\Forexsb.com\Indicators

Re-export your strategy.

Hi footon, I've done so and got it running on MT4 today - I'll report back with the results once some trades have happened - might be a couple of days depending on when they open/close.

Thanks very much for looking into this!

I'll publish it as an EA Code automatic update.

Download the file and put it in the following folder: Forex Strategy Builder Pro\User Files\MT4 Files\MQL\Forexsb.com\Indicators

Re-export your strategy.

Yep, it's a mess, not working correctly. The screenshot is pretty self-explanatory, Ocd Macd is differing a lot and giving opposite signals. I'll try to make sense of it.

Hey footon, thanks for confirming - and I appreciate your investigation.

Thanks, AL

Yep, it's a mess, not working correctly. The screenshot is pretty self-explanatory, Ocd Macd is differing a lot and giving opposite signals. I'll try to make sense of it.

The results of my initial investigations based on your previous replies:

- I've now downloaded the broker data from the VPS where the strategy is actually run from (and not my local MT4 on my laptop), which gives confidence that the data source is now correct.
- Another (different) strategy that is also run on the VPS, is giving near 100% correlation with the associated FSBPro results (it has a few pennies difference here and there which is of no concern and the trades open/close at the same time). So I'm confident it's not an FSBPro-wide problem, but limited to a particular strategy (the one attached here).
- I've experimented with the "Oscillator of MACD" smoothing settings, and selecting Simple definitely brings the results closer, so I'm thinking that maybe the problem lies with this indicator.

Thanks again for any help or guidance, AL

You have given me plenty thoughts to go and investigate further and maybe even try to resolve the issue myself.

Please be assured that I will post the results of my investigations here.

A quick piece of additional info is that my strategies only use max of 2 slots - hey I'm a simple guy and I don't like complicated things! :-)

Also, the strategy runs on a VPS, but I've been pulling the price data down to FSBPro from my local PC - I wonder if this could cause inconsistency?

My main suspicions at the moment are slippage and the simple smoothing thingy!

Thanks again and I will report back, but any other thoughts welcome.

I'm happy to post the strategy if that helps?

Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? I searched the forum and there seems to be a similar problem that was solved by importing the broker data into FSBPro (which I do anyway).

Thanks for any help or thoughts, AL

Yes, I had problems like this. So far I noticed big differences in the results by different problems which are already mentioned elsewhere on this forum. In my case I resolved most big differences like this:

- I used mt4 data manually copied from my broker like you did. However, I copied from the mt4 platform on my laptop. I made a good EA with nice results in the backtest on FSBPro, but I had different results on the live account. Why? Because I just let my EA run on my VPN. The problem was resolved by copying the data manually from my mt4 platform directly on the VPN where I eventually trade live. That caused differences for me.

- I got also differences from using too many indicators in an EA. I resolved the problem by deleting all the EA's and create new, simple and better strats!

- I still could improve some strategies by using "simple" smoothing period instead of exponential, smoothed or weighted.

- Also had problems with the base price from indicators. There can be incoherences. I make only strats with base price "close".

Maybe it can already put you on a new path. GL !