In the Strategy Editor there are three columns. The middle column holds the Strategy Properties, the Entry Rules and the Exit Rules.

Strategy Properties is the box at the top. The Strategy Properties box shows the trading amount, the Stop Loss, and the Take Profit.

If you click on the Strategy Properties box a panel will appear on the left. When this panel is open you won't be able to edit the other parts of the strategy. To edit other parts of the strategy first close the panel.

To close the panel there are two buttons at the bottom of it:

• Cancel - Undo all changes done in the panel and thus resume the previous state of the strategy.
• Accept - Apply all the changes done to the strategy. If you use this button EA Studio will recalculate the strategy backtest, stats and charts automatically to show you the results.

You set the trading amount in lots. The real currency amount depends on the number you set and the lot size of the symbol. For example, if the lot size of your broker for that symbol is 100 000 and you use Entry lots = 0.1, EA Studio will open position of 10 000.

EA Studio protects the open positions by using Stop Loss and Take Profit. The protections options can be switched on and off. When they are enabled, the backtesting algorithm of the program will use the numeric values you set. The same values are also used in the exported Expert Advisors.

Stop Loss is a protection to the strategy in a case when the market goes against our position. It is placed always below a long position or above a short position.

Take Profit closes a position on a profit after the market has moved in you favour with a predefined number of points.

It is important to remember that you set the protection values in pips. Be careful with that because a pip has a different value depending on the number of decimal digits in the quotation of your broker.