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Multi Market

The Multi Market tool can help you compare how your strategy preforms on different markets. In a sense, this is a robustness testing tool. Here you can add markets to test your strategy on. EA Studio will draw a backtest balance curve for each test.

Toolbar

Multi Market Toolbar

Start/Stop button - Start or stop the Multi Market tool

Progress - Shows how much of the work has been completed i.e. what percentage of the market tests have been calculated.

Calculated - Shows how many backtests of the strategy have been run.

Validated - Shows how many of backtest results have passed the Validation criteria tab in the tool

Markets

Multi Market Markets

To add another market to 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.

Multi Market Chart

Multi Market Chart

The chart shows how the strategy performs on the markets you selected. The color of each line corresponds to a different market. You can see the color for each market on the left side of the screen.

Multi Market Statistics

Multi Market Statistics

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 Drawdawn in percent

Return / DD - Return / drawdown ratio

Trades - Number of trades

Win / loss - Win / loss ratio

Multi Market Validation

Multi Market Validation

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 remove it click the X button on the right in the criteria list.