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This free Forex video will introduce the concept of forward-testing in MetaTrader to you. Forward-testing of the expert advisors is much slower than the backtesting, but it’s also much more reliable than the backtests as you trade in the real market conditions with the real flow of ticks and quotes.

The concept of backtesting of the custom expert advisors in the MetaTrader platform is explained in this free Forex video. Backtesting is a very useful tool that allows traders to test their strategies and expert advisors before using them on their real accounts. The advantage of using the MetaTrader backtesting over the forward-testing on demo is rather obvious — it’s faster and can cover periods of several years; and you can also optimize it automatically [...]

To test the expert advisors in the MetaTrader 4 platform you need to have a quality historical data for backtesting. This video will show you how to download better backtesting data for the higher modeling quality in the MetaTrader strategy tester.

This video talks about optimization of the MetaTrader expert advisors on the backtests for them to run more profitably in the forward-tests and in the actual real accounts. Watch this video tutorial on optimization to understand it more deeply.

Curve fitting is an over-optimizing of the expert advisors for the specific Forex market conditions on backtests, which results in the bad actual performance in forward tests of the same optimized EA. Watch this video for more details.

This is a rather short video demonstration on how to apply expert advisors in the MetaTrader 4 platform. The video shows how to add the expert advisors on the chart, configure them, download custom EAs and load them into your platform.

Strategy tester is a very useful and important tool for testing the automated expert advisors in MetaTrader 4. This short video tutorial will introduce the strategy tester and its main options and features to you, so that you could test your own EAs.

This video tutorial will guide through the process of back-testing the expert advisor in MetaTrader Forex trading platform.

The Magic numbers in the input parameters of the MetaTrader 4 expert advisors are the special parameters that allow EAs to separate their own orders from the orders that were opened by other EAs. But watch this short video tutorial to get a more visual explanation of what are the Magic numbers in MetaTrader 4.

This video tutorial explains where to get the quality historical price levels data for MetaTrader 4 and how to import it into your platform to achieve 90% modeling quality in strategy tester. Although, it’s not the best way to do that, it will be helpful for all traders that wish to backtest their expert advisors.