How do I test MT4 EA in forex tester 2

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How do I test MT4 EA in forex tester 2

#1 Postby sweetguy123 » Tue Nov 11, 2014 6:27 pm

I have an EA developed using MT4, however, I would like to test it using forex tester 2. How do I do it?

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Re: How do I test MT4 EA in forex tester 2

#2 Postby FX Helper » Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:24 am

Hello,

MetaTrader 4 experts can only be used in MetaTrader itself.
Anyway this is not a big problem, MT4 experts could be rewritten by a programmer into Forex Tester format using Forex Tester API libraries (we have Delphi and C++ API for writing indicators and EAs). The conversion is not very difficult because our API is very similar to MQL.
API files can be found in <Forex Tester folder>\Examples folder
Please see more information about API here:
Forex Tester -> Help -> Strategies API
viewforum.php?f=8
viewforum.php?f=9

You can rewrite EAs by yourself or we can find a good programmer for you, just let us know.

If you need programmer’s help please send these experts so I can show them to the programmer and he can check if it is easy to convert them into Forex Tester format.


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