Grid Indices Strategy

The MT4 Indices Strategy Tester in the MT4 platform is the environment used to back-test the profitability of an MT4 Automated Indices Expert Advisor which is an Automated Trading Program and determine profitability of this Grid Trading Stock Indices EA automated indices strategy & then Optimize this Grid Trading Robot to a point where it is giving good profits from its indices automated trading activities.

Note: Before beginning the MT4 Indices Strategy Tester shown below, you must first attach a stock indices trading Automated EA on a MT4 indices chart, by going to the Navigator Window, choosing the Grid Trading Bot & then right click on it & specify the option 'Attach to Chart', once the Grid Robot is attached to the MT4 indices chart it will appear as it is illustrated below, Then Right Click on the Automated Indices Trading Expert Advisor, select properties settings and then select the option by Checking/Ticking 'Allow Live Trading' and then continue with the MT4 strategy tester shown below.

The MetaTrader 4 strategy-tester option can be activated from the view menu & it is the second last menu item on View Menu, A short-cut is to Press Ctrl+R MetaTrader 4 button keys on your key-board.

The MT4 strategy Tester has the following Parameters for setting up before testing an Automated Indices EA automated stock indices system and also for optimizing the profitability of this indices Grid Robot.

Automated Indices Trading Expert Advisor: Parameter for selecting which indices Grid trading Robot you want to test among those installed on your MetaTrader 4 software.

Symbol: The indices instrument for which you as a trader want to test the stock indices trading Automated Expert-Advisor on

Model: Whether to execute based on tick method, open indices prices or control points

Use Date: Set the date to start the testing and the date to end the testing of the stock indices trading Automated Indices EA

Visual Mode: Select To view the illustration of where this indices Grid trading Robot opens and closes indices trade as testing goes on, there is also a slide bar to increase or decrease the speed for this visual mode.

Period: Stock Indices Chart Time Frame for which to use examples 1 Hour Indices Chart

Optimization: Allow Optimization Settings for your Automated Indices EA Automated Indices Trading Robot

For example to test the above stock indices trading Automated EA on the indices for profitability, settings can be setup as displayed and shown above and MetaTrader strategy tester is then run, by pressing and clicking on 'Start Button Key'.

Following trade results are generated & an automated indices trader can select to optimize the indices Grid trading Robot further by changing the Automated Indices Expert Advisors indices trading settings.

Once the optimization of the stock indices trading Automated Expert Advisor is complete the status bar will show progress, the above status bar shows the progress that the indices Grid Robot testing is complete.

To view the result click on options high lighted above (Optimization Result, Optimization Graph, Journal)

Before running this Grid Indices Strategy - Intraday Grid Indices Strategy for Automated Indices Expert Advisor testing you must go to navigator panel, double-click on this indices Grid trading Robot to attach it to the stock index chart and set the parameters as displayed and illustrated and shown below by ticking the options provided below:

After setting the above settings then you can test your automated indices trading strategy within MT4 strategy-tester.

Once you Run your Automated Indices Expert Advisor the Results will be displayed on the following windows

Grid Stock Indices Strategy