As I mentioned in previous messages -- a Magic Number must be associated with *ALL* trades.  The purpose of the application is to manage a portfolio of strategies, where each strategy has a unique Magic Number.  If your trades do not include a Magic Number then you do not need MT4 Tracker -- since there would be nothing for it to manage.

You do not need to make any changes to the MT4 *.htm Report file.  MT4 Tracker can read the default *.htm Report file created by Metatrader 4.  In fact, even if you wanted to make changes to the fields you couldn't.  The reason why your *.htm Report file is failing is because many of the trades do not have a Magic Number.  It has nothing to do with missing fields.

If you want to see how MT4 Tracker works there is a sample *.htm Report in the 'DataFolder' under the installation directory.  The name of the sample Report file is 'example-DetailedStatement.htm'.

Sorry -- I don't know how else to explain it.

Here's a link I found helpful -- not too technical:
http://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures … ess-of-fit

The way I'm using R is comparing the 'Before' and 'After' -- that is, I want the 'After' to be larger and closer to 1 than the 'Before'.  Also, visually, I'm looking to see how close a chart approximates a straight line.  So, a good portion of it is subjective.  In my limited experience, I'd say I'm looking for something > 0.85.

Another thing -- and I was thinking about starting another thread to learn more from you and other experienced traders -- is to question how important people think "linearity" is.  I mean, to me, linearity is important because it goes part way toward predicting the future -- better than a chart that exhibits a more complex pattern.  In other words, I would choose a linear portfolio over one that had a higher net profit but non-linear performance.  And I'm curious what others think and why.

It seems to me that win/loss would be more preferable than Net Income.... I relate that to sustainability.

I like your reasoning regarding linearity although I do not have the knowledge to really comment.

The slope seems to be important..... whether it be above a moving average or just a line as in FSBPro portfolio or as portaryed in the MT4 Tracker software.

In the past 13  or 14 hours, I am 545 pips positive closed..... and I have a goal that is much higher than that.. I feel that I have to use win/loss in the Tracker to weed out the poor performers to get to my goal.

I have not had much luck generating strategies with 75 percent win rate using EA Studio, however when I use the 75% win rate as a filter in Tracker I get fairly good results with the other metrics and the linearity seems pretty good.

My thinking is that we are going to have to accumulate a lot of experience to be able to select a 'best' metric or a best two metrics. At this point I can not point to anything to say what I feel to be best or super best.

We have to watch for the dips in the lines.... and what we have does a nice job of showing those.

Could you attach your *.htm Report file -- I'd like to figure out what the problem is.

There are a few I can think of...
1. It can "prune" (i.e. remove) poor performing strategies from an EA Studio-generated Portfolio Expert.  That is, it can parse the *.mq4 file and remove the poor performers.  Try doing that by hand...
2. It can manage 100's of MagicNumbers -- try doing that with FX Blue...
3. It doesn't require an indicator or access to your account -- i.e. does not require your account credentials.
4. I have multiple accounts -- both demo and live -- and I haven't figured out how to manage them all with FX Blue or MyFxBook.
5. It allows you to perform "Before" and "After" tests -- that is, compare what your balance chart would have looked like if certain strategies had been removed.  That is, it gives you a tool to further refine your Portfolio that may have dozens or hundreds of strategies.

I started to use FxBlue and thought it was great....  but it is clunky compared to Tracker when managing a lot of strategies and EA's

Each application has benefits, however,m I am using only Tracker at this time as it is so fast to find the poor performers.

I use the win/loss filter and then check the linearity..... my approach may not be very sophisticated but it is giving me the results.

I agree -- the difference in your report charts definitely look odd.  The above image compares one of my recent reports -- and the chart created by MT4 Tracker is similar (if not identical) to the one created by MetaTrader.

Could you send me your Report *.htm file along with a screen shot that shows the corresponding chart and statistics computed by MetaTrader.  I will take a look to see if I can figure out the problem.

Could you tell me what version of the program you are using -- under 'Help / About'.  Also, could you download the latest version of the program from here and give that a try:
http://nutsaboutnets-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/MT4Tracker_Setup.exe

I continue to enhance the application and have been uploading new versions from time-to-time.  However, I don't recall there being a charting bug that would cause what you are seeing.

Thanks for sending your Report file.  You are not doing anything wrong -- the problem is at my end.

1. Regarding the chart, the reason why they look different is because the current version of MT4 assumes the most current closing times are at the top and the oldest are at the bottom.  That's the default for my installations and I didn't realize it would be different for others.  I will fix that.  For now, if you reverse the order by clicking on the 'Time' header for Closing prices before creating the report then I think MT4 Tracker will create a chart that looks the same as MetaTrader.

2. Regarding the crash -- this is because you haven't yet excluded any strategies.  For now you can press 'Continue' and it will continue to work.  Once you've selected one or more strategies to Exclude then that crash won't occur.  I will fix that also.

Irmantas -- thanks for your help in finding the bugs and letting me know.  I will fix the problems shortly and post another message to let you know when a new version is ready.

Thank you! Problem solved

I think the software is great!
I made a mistake in restarting the demo account. so I lost a lot of good trades.....
Now I am keeping the demo account but the bad trades that have been pruned are still there...... maybe that is a good thing as I struggle to get the numbers to improve.
I am starting to see that some of my strategies are excellent but it will take quite a while to get enough trades to be able to judge the viability of many.
I am really pleased with the software.  Thank you.

1. I've fixed the parsing error -- here is a link to the updated installation program:

MT4Tracker_Setup.exe

The parsing problem was caused by the way the *.htm Report expresses numerical values greater than 999 -- for example, "1899" is reported as "1 899" -- that is, with a space character between the 1 and 8.  This is what broke the parsing, but is now fixed.

2. Previously MT4 Tracker only worked with *.htm Report files where every ticket was associated with a Magic Number -- and this was by design.  But, now I think there is no harm in making it more general -- so, this latest version supports accounts where there is a mix of tickets with / without Magic Numbers.  If a ticket does not have an associated Magic Number, then it is assigned Magic Number '0'.

3. Parsing is very dependent on the format of the input file -- so, yes, it really must be the original MT4 *.htm Report file.

Thanks for uploading you *.htm Report file -- it helped to find and fix the parsing problem.

Once again -- MT4 Tracker is still a work in progress.  It has been tested using *.htm Report files from my accounts and a few others that have been shared in this forum.  As the program matures and as I use it with my accounts then I gain more confidence in the results.  However, be very observant and make sure the results it reports are consistent with your expectations.  If you have any questions don't hesitate to post them here and I will try to answer them.  Also, if your *.htm Report is not properly read / analyzed please upload it so I can better figure out where the problem might be.

One more Question/Suggestion:
Additional to the magic number I use for the EA's free choosen "speaking" names in "Custom order Comment" (e.g.: eu_5m_od1s_6) which are shown in the report in the "comment"-column. I would find it helpful if the MT4-Tracker would show this names, e.g in a seperate column additional to the magic numbers

Hi, working with MT4-Tracker I get a bit confused with the scales. I dont mind the $-sign (my account is in Euro) but the numbers are shown with factor 100. See statement and screenshot attached.