Create and Test Forex Strategies
The Multi Market tool can help you compare how your strategy preforms on different markets. In a sense, this is a robustness test tool. Here you can add markets to test your strategy on. EA Studio will draw a backtest balance curve for each test.
Start/Stop button - Start or stop the Multi Market tool
Progress - Shows how much of the work has been done i.e. what percentage of the market tests have been calculated.
Calculated - Shows how many backtests of the strategy have been ran.
Validated - Shows how many of backtest results do pass the Validation criteria tab in the tool
To add another market for test click the + Add market button. Use the drop-down menu to select the market for the test. Use the X button on the right side of the market to remove it.
The chart shows how the strategy preforms on the markets you selected. The color of each line corresponds to a different market. You can see the color for each market on its left side.
The statistics tab shows some basic backtest statistics for each market test.
Market - The market the strategy was tested on.
Balance - The balance of the account at the end of the backtest.
Profit / day - Average profit per day.
Max DD % - Max Drawdown in percent
Return / DD - Return / drawdown ratio
Trades - Number of trades
Win / loss - Win / loss ratio
You can add, remove and modify criteria to validate each backtest result.
To add criteria use the + Add validation criteria button and select a criterion. To remote it click the X button on the right in the criteria list.