Using historical data to test strategies

Beginner Questions
1

OK, so apparently Forex.com’s support suck, explained for 10 minutes that I wanted to test my swing strategies quickly, and all i got at the end was sorry, i cant help.

In the school, it says:
The fastest way to test your system is to find a charting software package where you can go back in time and move the chart forward one candle at a time. When you move your chart forward one candle at a time, you can follow your trading system rules and take your trades accordingly.

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Now, how do I go about doing this? I cant find free options anywhere, and MT4’s strategy tester only seems to let you test EA’s on present time charts.

Anyone?

2

You got about three options:

  1. You can keep trying to load MT4’s historical data- quite a hustle but you can hack it after a couple of days.

  2. There is a free MT4 add-on that you can use to test manual strategies.- Search for that on the MQL forums

  3. Forex Tester 2. Its gonna cost you about 150 bucks, and let you test both EA’s and Manual Strategies.

Your pick brucey.

3

Could you point us to the free one please?

I find that FXpro offers the best historical chart data.

4

You can also try Kineticks free plan and see if it allows you to do what you need (I have not tried myself, but they do offer free end-of-day data and if I recall correctly have history going back x-amount of years).

5

Maybe this MT4 backtesting guide by Robopip can help: How to Backtest an EA on MT4 | Forex Blog: Art of Automation

6

Sorry but not really, what I’m after and I think the OP too is how to enter trades manually while running the ST.