problem backtesting an EA, few bars loaded.
How many 4hr bars in your history?
hi
i'm writing an EA that makes calculations based on past market swings.
in the init function i make the ea load the past data with the following instructions :
ArrayCopyRates(stream,"EURUSD", PERIOD_H4);
ArrayCopy(bar1,stream, 0, 0);
ArraySetAsSeries(bar1, False);
but the EA loads a maximum of 1000 bars, and to calculate a reliable statistic i need much more data than 1000 bars.
I already checked that the full 4H history is loaded, and the size of the array stream[][] and bar1[][] is much bigger than 1000.
anyone has an idea of why the EA doesn't want to read any bar older than 1000 ?
options -> charts -> max bars in chart?
also setAsSeries=false before the copy
done, but it still wont loads exactly 1000 bars. even if i change starting period in the tester box "from", it keeps loading the last 1000.
have you ever experienced such a problem on your EAs?
I remember something about the Tester loading 1000 bars.... looking...
..but not finding.
My little test EA has 100 bars in the array to start...
ok, by the way thank you for your help
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hi
i'm writing an EA that makes calculations based on past market swings.
in the init function i make the ea load the past data with the following instructions :
ArrayCopyRates(stream,"EURUSD", PERIOD_H4);
ArrayCopy(bar1,stream, 0, 0);
ArraySetAsSeries(bar1, False);
but the EA loads a maximum of 1000 bars, and to calculate a reliable statistic i need much more data than 1000 bars.
I already checked that the full 4H history is loaded, and the size of the array stream[][] and bar1[][] is much bigger than 1000.
anyone has an idea of why the EA doesn't want to read any bar older than 1000 ?