MT4 Backtesting and DST

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Confused about backtesting different date periods in an EA and DST on MT4

If a server is currently running on (EST) = GMT-5
and the dates I want to backtest is between april 2009 to november 1st (all within the EDT range)

should I change any manuall GMT offset of any EA to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) = GMT-4 for the purpose of the backtest?

Thanks in advance
Pckeys

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Does you EA system/strategy related to Time period ? If not I dont think you need to do any particular setting to backtest it, since you have all the data in history

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Thanks so much for the reply.

Its a scalping EA relative to GMT that trades during market overlaps and/or in the first or last hour of a session and so needs to be adjusted per broker server time during US DST and AUS DST changeovers

:confused:

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Hi,

I’m looking for serious help.
I never used the free historical data feed from HistData website. Anyone used their data to backtest on Mt4?

Thanks in advance, guys!

Cheers.