Settings

On this page you can set your account information.

• Account currency - set your account currency.
• Initial account - set the initial account balance to be equal to your account balance at your broker. When you use a lower account, you have to trade with lower lot sizes.
• Leverage - set the leverage you have at your broker. EA Studio supports values from 1:1 to 1:500.

• Start the backtest from bar 100 - Many indicators require a specific amount of bars to draw their curves. This option makes sure all indicators will have sufficient data to provide trading signals for the backtest.
• Close the position at the end of the backtest

You can read more about Correlation analysis in the Collection article.

• Correlation analysis threshold - The coefficient that EA Studio uses when deciding if two strategies are correlated.
• Detect balance lines correlation - Strategies will be considered correlated if they have a similar balance curve.
• Detect strategies with similar trading rules - EA Studio will consider strategies are correlated if they have similar trading rules.

In this panel you have the opportunity to set five different metrics for your strategy's backtest. For example: profit factor, drawdawn, count of trades, win/loss ratio, and max stagnation %. There are numerous of other options to choose from

• Reset all settings - Sets all EA Studio settings to their default values.
• Export settings - Exports all EA Studio settings as a JSON file so you can import them later or give them to someone to import into their EA Studio.
• Import settings - Allows you to import a previously exported settings JSON file.