Create and Test Forex Strategies
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This page provides options for setting your account information:
Account currency - set your account currency.
Initial account - set the initial account to be equal to your account at your broker. When you u use 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 will be used when deciding if two strategies are correlated.
Detect balance lines correlation - Strategies will be considered correlated if they have a similar balance curves.
Detect strategies with similar trading rules - Strategies will be considered correlated if they have similar trading rules.