Grid Trading Indices Strategy

The MT5 Indices Strategy Tester in the MT5 platform is the environment used to back test the profitability of an MetaTrader 5 Automated Indices Expert Advisor which is an Automated Trading Program and determine the profitability of this Grid Trading EA automated indices trading strategy and then Optimize this Grid Trading EA to a point where it is giving good profits from its indices automated trading activities.

NB: Before starting the MT5 Indices Strategy Tester shown below, you must first attach a stock indices trading Automated Expert Advisor on a MT5 indices chart, by going to the Navigator Window, selecting the indices Grid Trading EA and then right click on it and specify the option "Attach to Chart", once the Grid Trading EA is attached to the MT5 indices chart it will appear as shown below, Then Right Click on the Automated Indices Trading Expert Advisor, select properties and then select the option by Checking/Ticking "Allow Live Trading" and then continue with the MT5 strategy tester shown below.

The MT5 strategy tester option can be activated from the view menu and it is the second last menu item on the View Menu, A short Cut is to Press Ctrl+R MetaTrader 5 buttons on your keyboard.

The MT5 strategy Tester has the following Parameters for setting up before testing an Automated Indices Expert Advisor automated stock indices trading system and also for optimizing the profitability of this indices Grid trading EA.

Automated Indices Trading Expert Advisor: Parameter for selecting which indices Grid trading EA you want to test among those installed on your MetaTrader 5 platform.

Symbol: The indices instrument for which you 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 Trading Expert Advisor

Visual Mode: Select To view the illustration of where this indices Grid trading EA opens and closes indices trade as the 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 example 1 Hour Indices Chart

Optimization: Allow Optimization Setting for your Automated Indices Expert Advisor Automated Indices Trading Robot

For example to test the above stock indices trading Automated Expert Advisor on the indices for profitability, the settings can be set up as shown above and the MetaTrader strategy tester is then run, by pressing the "Start Button".

The following trade results are generated and an automated indices trader can choose to optimize the indices Grid trading EA 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 trading EA testing is complete.

To view the result click the options highlighted above (Optimization Results, Optimization Graph, Journal)

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

After setting the above settings then you can test your automated indices trading strategy within the MT5 strategy tester.

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

Grid Trading Indices Strategy

Grid Trading Indices Strategy

Grid Trading Indices Strategy

Grid Trading Indices Strategy - Intraday Grid Trading Indices Strategy Profit and Loss Graph - Grid Trading EA

The above is just a brief introduction to the MT5 strategy tester - automated trading with Grid Trading EA Indices Robots is a wide topic that a indices trader will take some time and research to learn about but the main environment to test and optimize the stock indices trading Automated Expert Advisor automated stock indices trading robot will be the Intraday Grid Trading Indices Strategy.

NB: You can only implement an Automated Indices Expert Advisor using data that has been downloaded and saved on your MT5 platform, therefore for the date settings select the dates that you have been trading with your MT5 to get a graph representation of how your automated indices Grid trading EA would trade.