Since the Breakeven feature apparently now operates by changing the S/L setting to the original entry value, could there be an option where the S/L setting is set to [the original entry value plus(buy)/minus(sell) Half the Breakeven setting]?   that is, if the buy entry value is 0.90000 and the BE value is 200 pips, when the price reached 0.90200, could we have an option to reset the S/L setting to 0.90100, rather than to 0.90000?

I think this is an interesting idea.

To narrow down, for a given period of data, the time of day realizing the most profit for the strategy being tested. Maybe a most profitable/least profitable filter or display.

In theory it'd allow for a better return on a strategy, particularly with some money mangement applied.

Common wisdom is usually that peak liquidity hours provide the best trade times, but a more precise understanding on a strategy by strategy basis could only help.

The calculation could get jumbled based on entry and exit time, overlaps, addition or reduction to existing position, weekends etc.

Not sure how simple that would be to address, but sounds good regardless.

Could you not use 'Entry Hour' to locate this time period, ie use it with the 'chain'

Yeah that would do the trick I suppose. Could just use the generator or optimizer to find the ideal time.

Can you include in the next version two indicators Doji and Hammer.
Thanks in advance.

Can the multi time or wilder time function of indicators be build into FSB itself, in that way it will reduce the development time for building an indicators and a multi time version of it ?

Thanks for considering this feature in future release.

Can I add this request too since Optimizer goes through a range of parameters value, can you add an option that it will pick the most non over optimized of the optimized parameters ie the parameters at +/- its pick parameter will maintain the highest capital ie preserving the capital.

I love this software otherwise I wouldn't bother writing this.

Edit | Previous / Next Strategy
There doesn't seem to be a display of where you are in the history list. It would help to grey out the "Next Generated Strategy" when at the top of the list.

In the Strategy Properties box the items "same direction signal" and "opposite direction signal" do not seem to be part of the generation optimisation process whereas the SL, TP and BE are part of it. It is not clear that one can/should adjust these manually. Perhaps change their colour or separate them out to make this clearer?

The strategy generator seems to be set to optimise on balance. I would like to either optimise on or at least filter by Profit Factor (PF > 1.4 for example) PF= Gross Profit/Gross Loss, with gross loss considered as a positive quantity.

There's instructions somewhere on the forum -- open config.xml in the install folder, change max bars to 1 million, open FSB, then Market > Data Horizon change the setting to 999,999 (I think the number stepper is max at 6 digits).

The Data Horizon dialog wording
http://forexsb.com/wiki/fsb/manual/data_horizon
is a bit disturbing until you read the manual. The suggestion from the dialog text is that data is being deleted.

Rather than "Remove data older than" I would prefer "FROM: (do not start before)"
Rather than "Remove data newer than" I would prefer "TO: (do not end after)"

MT4 has a very clean interface to their backtest and they just use "From" and "To" dates, which can be typed in directly, or by pulling up a calender.

Hi all,
Thanks to all the moderators here always available to help us improving our strategy through FSB.
In order to improve this fabulous software, I was wondering if the next version could have this  stats inside.
worst year's Drawdown
profit factor
longs won in percentage
shorts won in percentage
Best trade
worst trade
winning trades but in percentage
losing trades but in percentage
Profits percentage each month
consecutive winning trades
consecuttive losing trades

Others ideas are welcome