Automatic trading

Expert Advisor

Automated trading is defined as a form of trading, when buying and selling of financial. Several years of trading can be quickly tested, as instruments are carried out by an automated system. Today, this is the most common way of offering trading platforms on which automated trading programs - known as Expert Advisors or in short: robots - can run.

MetaTrader

Most brokerages use the MetaTrader trading platform which is continuously developed by MetaQuotes. Millions of traders use it worldwide - both those who are just getting started in trading and who are professional specialists in the field.

MetaTrader's popularity is not accidental: it is simple to learn, it is user friendly, easily customizable with indicators and scripts, and freely upgradeable and programmable.

Strategy Tester

It has a built-in strategy tester. With this tool, Expert Advisors can simulate on historical data. We can test quickly several years of trading with different settings.

We save time on trading strategy of the robot long term by running backtest. We can monitor, examine and analyze tradings in minutes.

Optimization

The optimization feature of MetaTrader allows you to test thousands of combinations of Expert Advisor settings to find the most profitable for the selected chart, period and date range.

It is a process of adjustment of parameters that allow you to maximize profits. With this feature, you can find out which settings performed best over a selected historical chart period. At this stage input variables and their step change are set. Once this data is received, the terminal starts searching through all possible combinations of parameters and starts testing them.

History Center

Before backtesting or optimizing, it's important to make sure that your history data is complete and accurate, especially if you're using Every tick as your testing model. From the History Center, you can download or import data used in backtesting.