Create and Test Forex Strategies
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**Close a position on a Margin Call** | **Close a position on a Margin Call** | ||
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+ | Turn this off to allow negative balance on your account. This is used when you want to see the trading results of a strategy regardless of the loss it might incur. For example, if you have $5000 account and your backtest starts off with several losing trades, then your account might get depleted just a few bars after the starting period. All other possible trades will be excluded from the result because the simulator will consider your account closed. | ||
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+ | However, if you want to simulate trading more realistically, | ||
**Use all available shorter periods and tick data to improve the backtest** - [[intrabar_stats]] | **Use all available shorter periods and tick data to improve the backtest** - [[intrabar_stats]] | ||
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+ | This option is useful when you have [[fsb: | ||
===== 3. Balance / Equity Chart ===== | ===== 3. Balance / Equity Chart ===== | ||
**Show long and short balance lines on the Balance/ | **Show long and short balance lines on the Balance/ | ||
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+ | Turn this on to see the results of short and long trades on the balance chart. A green line will represent long trades and a red one will show the short ones. This is useful when you want a break down of the kind of trades that are profitable and shows how balanced (pun intended) a strategy is. | ||
**Show the market close price on the Balance/ | **Show the market close price on the Balance/ | ||
+ | This will show the forex price line in the balance chart. A grey line will show you how the price changed and can help you see what is going on whit your balance in bear and bull markets. | ||
===== 4. Program Settings ===== | ===== 4. Program Settings ===== | ||
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+ | All of the options in this section will affect all profiles and are global for the whole program. | ||
**Show a pop-up details panel when the mouse is over a strategy slot** | **Show a pop-up details panel when the mouse is over a strategy slot** | ||
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+ | When this option is on, a popup will appear when you hover for a second over any of the strategy trading conditions. The popup will contain detailed information about the condition/ | ||
**Check and install the program\' | **Check and install the program\' | ||
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+ | This is pretty self explanatory. Allows seamless updates. | ||
**Help improving Forex Strategy Builder Professional (Recommended)** | **Help improving Forex Strategy Builder Professional (Recommended)** | ||
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+ | This send us some anonymous information about the usage of the program. We use this information to concentrate our efforts on the most popular instruments and options that you use. | ||
===== 5. Networking===== | ===== 5. Networking===== |