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Quick start & How to use guidewww.forextester.com

CONTENT
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Forex trading simulator’s Quick Start:easy steps to master backtesting

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Testing process

10

Downloading data

12

Creating a project

15

Placing a market order

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Placing a pending order

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Closing the position

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Adding indicators

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Historical news service

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Test analysis

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Tracking bar parameters

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Using Expert Advisers

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Installation. Save your time with the quick Forex
trading simulator’s installation

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Chart adjustments. Get more of Forex trading
simulator: 6 chart modes for deeper Forexlearning

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Chart settings

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Data center. How to manage your Forex history
data in a couple of clicks

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Importing Data. How to import Forex data andmake the most of it

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Creating a new project. How to open project
easily88

Start testing. How to start testing in the Forex
Tester trading simulator easily

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Placing orders. How to place orders in Forex
Tester trading simulator quickly and easily

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Modifying Orders. How to easily modify orders
in Forex trading simulator

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Using Indicators. Forex trading indicators: anultimate tool to spot the trend and set up the
trade

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Using News Service. For traders whose trading
strategies are based on news analysis

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CONTENT
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Using Templates and Desktops. Built-in
templates: the proven way to easily masterbacktesting

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Saving projects. How to save your projects andeffectively learn lessons from your trading

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Expert Advisers. How expert advisers can help
you get the most of the backtesting process

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Statistics and Account History. Improve yourtrading results by simply learning fromstatistics

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Strategy optimizer

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General program settings. Adjust your Forex
Tester program to your needs in just a few clicks

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FOREX TRADINGSIMULATOR’SQUICK START:EASY STEPS TO
MASTERBACKTESTING
This manual introduces you to the main and most importantelements of the Forex Tester 5. Once you have mastered them, youwill be able to move onto learning more in-depth lessons tounderstand the program elaborately.

Try DEMO version
https://forextester.com/download

The Demo version contains 1 month of historical data for 18
symbols (16 currency pairs, gold, and silver), as well as 1 month ofhistorical news for USD. You can additionally download 1 month ofdata for any symbol in the Data Center.

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We also provide FREE historical data for 18 symbols starting fromtps:/ forextester.com/order
01/01/2001 until the last day of the previous month with the htBasic
https://forextester.com/ordersubscription.
To get even more features, such as 818 symbols, much better data
quality, historical news for 9 main currencies, tick data, andﬂoating spreads, https://forextester.com/historyservicedescription
choose either Standard or VIP subscription.
After download, https://forextester.com/installation
install the software and crack on with testing
strategies using our Quick Start guide!

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TESTING
PROCESS1.

Press the “Start” button on the Home tab to start testing
immediately.

When the testing begins, the bars start moving on thechart(s), and the “Start” button changes to “Pause”.

2.

Use the same button to Resume testing.

3.

Change the testing speed by moving the slider left to slow
down or right to speed up the bar’s movement.

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4.

Scroll to one bar back whenever you press the Backspace key
on your keyboard or click the “Bar back” button on the
toolbar.

5.

Move forward by one bar every time you press the Space key
on your keyboard or click the “Bar forward” button on the
toolbar.

6.

Сhange the size of the tick package by clicking the dropdown
menu near the “Tick” button.

87.

Change the timeframe by simply clicking the corresponding
buttons or using the dropdown menu next to them.

If your current timeframe is equal to the value of 1 hour, and thetick package size is equal to 5 min, then the program will have tochange the price 12 times before moving to the new bar (60minutes / 5 minutes = 12).

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DOWNLOADINGDATA
In Forex Tester 5, you can enjoy the variety of symbols added.
Choose between 800+ trading instruments, including stocks,
indexes, cryptocurrencies, and futures.

1.

Click the “Data Center” button on the Data tab.

2.

Highlight a currency pair and click the “Update from server”
button.

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3.

Choose whether you want to download the full history or
select the date range to download only a part of it and click
the “Update” button.

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CREATING A
PROJECT
1.

Click the “New Project” button on the Home tab.

2.

Enter the Project name and click “Next”.

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3.

Choose the necessary currency pairs that are available within
the project and click the “Next” button.

4.

At this stage, you can make use of the following additionalsettings:
Add an automated calculation of the time-shifting for a
trading session you are interested in.
Apply the time settings of the New York Close or London
Close in case you trade in a time zone other than thesesessions.
Choose “Forward testing only mode” if you want to checkthe real trading environment without the possibility to step
back.

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5.

Click “Create”. The test will start automatically.

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PLACING A
MARKET ORDER
1.

Click the “Market order” button on the Home tab.

2.

Choose the currency pair you are to trade and the lot size
from the dropdown lists. You can also choose a risk-based lot
calculation, but, in this case, the Stop Loss value must be set.

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3.

Enter Stop Loss and Take Proﬁt values.

4.

Click either the “Sell” or “Buy” button.

5.

Resume testing until either the price reaches the Stop Loss /Take Proﬁt, or you decide to close the trade manually.

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PLACING APENDING ORDER
1.

Click the “Pending order” button on the Home tab.

2.

Select the required type of the order from the dropdown list.

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Please note that Limit orders should be used when you expect
the price to reach some level and then bounce from it, whereas
Stop orders are made for breakthrough strategies.

If you think that the price will go up, reach a certain point,
and then resume the downward movement, you should set
a Sell Limit order.
If you expect the price to go down and break the support
level, it is necessary to open a Sell Stop order.

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3.

Choose how you want to calculate the lot — manually orbased on risk management. Note that a risk-based lot
calculation requires entering a Stop Loss value.

4.

Set the price at which the order must be opened.

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5.

Enter the Stop Loss and Take Proﬁt values.

6.

Click “Place order”.

7.

Resume testing until your order is opened.

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CLOSING THE
POSITION
1.

To close the order manually, double-click on the row of thedesired order in the Open Positions tab at the terminal’s
lower-left corner.

2.

Click the “Close position” button.

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You can also close your order by clicking the corresponding
button on the Order tab.

3.

If the Pending order has not been opened yet, it’ll remain in
the Pending orders tab at the terminal’s lower-left corner. To
close it manually, double-click on the row of the desired order.

4.

Click the “Delete order” button.

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ADDING
INDICATORS
1.

To add an indicator, click the “List of indicators” button on the
Home tab.

In Forex Tester 5, we got all indicators grouped by their functions.

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2.

To import custom indicators into Forex Tester 5, choose“Install New Indicator”.

After importing, your indicator will appear in the “Custom” list.

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HISTORICAL
NEWS SERVICE
In Forex Tester 5, we have the historical news service as one of the
major fundamental trading instruments.

1.

Click the “Update news” button on the Data tab.

2.

The “Update News from server” button allows you to update
the news immediately.

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3.

By default, the news displaying is enabled, and they are
shown at the bottom of the chart as ﬂags. The color of the ﬂag
border (red, yellow, green) indicates their importance.

4.

To disable the news displaying on the chart, use the rightmouse click and uncheck the “Show news” option.

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TEST ANALYSIS
1.

To analyze the test results, go to the Statistics tab in theMarket Info window located to the chart’s upper left.

You can also enable or disable the Statistics by clicking the“Statistics” button on the Windows tab.

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2.

To export the trade history
Go to the Account History tab at the bottom of the terminal.
Right-click inside this ﬁeld and choose the preferred option(Export History to Excel; Export History to a File).

3.

To export the Proﬁt chart
Go to the Proﬁt tab located under the chart window.

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Right-click on the Proﬁt chart and choose the option you
prefer in the open context menu (Export Equity to a File;
Export Equity to Excel).

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4.

The Account History tab displays your proﬁt and loss inpoints.

For convenient viewing of your account history, you can use
various ﬁlters by clicking on the “Show ﬁlters” button.

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TRACKING BARPARAMETERS
All the necessary information regarding each candlestick is
reﬂected in the Data window panel. It is located to the chart’s left.
You can see the bar’s date, time, open, close, high and low prices,
simply pointing with the mouse on it. In addition, you can see
values of volume, indicators, and the index of the bar.

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USING EXPERTADVISERS
1.

Click the “List of strategies” button on the Strategies tab.
Make sure that the “Strategies execution” option is ON.

2.

Enable the Awesome EA automated strategy, for example.

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3.

Click the gear icon to edit the strategy parameters.

4.

Click “Apply” after you ﬁnish the adjustments.

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5.

Click the “Close” button.

6.

Click the “Start” button on the Home tab to start testing.
Ensure that the chart’s timeframe corresponds to thetimeframe you have selected for the expert adviser.

7.

To change the indicator’s parameters, right-click on theindicator, and choose the “Edit” option.

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The Expert Advisor will automatically open and close the trades
using the rules of strategy.

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INSTALLATIONSAVE YOUR TIME
WITH THE QUICKFOREX TRADINGSIMULATOR’SINSTALLATION
To install a Forex Tester 5 version, you need to download thesoftware.

DOWNLOADFOREX TESTER 5
https://forextester.com/download

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1.

Launch installer after the download.

2.

Click the “Run” button in the Open File dialog window.
*Click “Yes” if the operating system asks you to allow the
program to make changes on your PC.

3.

Click “Next” when the Welcome to the Forex Tester Setup
Wizard window appears.

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4.

Please, read the End-User License Agreement carefully.

5.

Conﬁrm your consent by selecting the “I accept theagreement” option and clicking “Next”.

6.

Select the folder where the Forex Tester 5 program will be
installed and click the “Next” button.
*We highly recommend you to install Forex Tester 5 into thedefault location (C:\ForexTester5).
We don’t suggest installing the program into a (C:\Program
Files\) folder, as the program errors may appear.

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7.

Activate the “Create a desktop icon” option for easier accessand click “Next” to continue.

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8.

Click “Install” and wait to complete the software installation
process on your computer.

9.

Activate the “Launch Forex Tester” option and click the“Finish” button to launch the program immediately.
*Or uncheck this option if you want to run it later.

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Congratulations! The program has been installed on yourcomputer.
*The Forex Tester 5 shortcut icon will appear on your desktop if you
have chosen this option during the installation.

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CHART
ADJUSTMENTS
GET MORE OF
FOREX TRADINGSIMULATOR: 6
CHART MODESFOR DEEPERFOREX LEARNING
There are 6 modes of chart displaying in Forex Tester. You canswitch between 3 of them (lines, bars, or candles) by clicking the“Chart modes” button on the Charts tab.

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1.

Lines mode is represented by a curved line connecting all
Close prices.

2.

Bars mode consists of the vertical bars with horizontal line
segments.
Vertical bars display the distance between the high and low of
the current bar, whereas the left horizontal line shows the
bar’s open price, and the right horizontal line — its close price.

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3.

Candles mode is set in Forex Tester by default.
Candlesticks are vertical rectangles of two colors that might
have upper and lower shadows.

4.

Range bar mode shows the candles of the same adjusted sizeby considering the price only.
A new candle appears when the price passes a speciﬁednumber of points, but if that doesn’t happen and the pricemoves in a narrow range, a new candle does not appear on
the chart.
To switch to this mode, click the “Range bar” button on theCharts tab and choose the currency pair.

44Forex Tester will ask you to set the range bar size. Insert thenecessary value and click “Ok”.

You will notice that each candlestick (or bar) is equal to the value
you have entered.

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5.

Renko bar mode also highlights the main trend byeliminating minor price changes.
The line made of bricks on the Renko chart continues to draw
in the previous price movement’s direction only if prices
change by a certain adjusted value. All bricks are the same
size. Thus, on the Renko chart with a cell price of 5 points, aprice increase of 20 points is shown as four bricks 5 points
high.
The main signal of a trend reversal is the appearance of a newcolored brick.
To open the Renko chart for a particular symbol, go to theCharts tab, click the “Renko bar” button, and select thenecessary symbol. In the opened window, specify the bar sizein pips and click “Ok”.

Note that the speciﬁed value for the Renko bar deﬁnes thesize of the candle body only.

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6.

Tick chart mode shows every single price change within acurrent data range.
To switch to the Tick chart, click the Ticks tab located in thescreen’s left upper corner.

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CHART SETTINGS
You can adjust the colors of the candlesticks and chart’s
background by right-clicking on the chart and selecting the“Chart settings” option (or use the “Chart settings” button on theCharts tab).

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There are three tabs in the Chart settings window:

1.

The Color scheme tab.

There are nine color schemes available in Forex Tester.
Let’s change the default one to “Black on White”. It inverts theﬁlls’ colors and sets the black borders for the candlesticks. Now
the bullish candlestick has the white ﬁll, whereas the bearish one— black.

You can also alter the colors for:backgroundframe and text
gridborders of the candlesticks
ﬁlls’ colors
period separators49

Switch to the Additional colors tab, and you will have access toother important lines that appear on the chart.
By default, Stop Loss / Take Proﬁt values, loss trades, and buy ordermarkers are colored in red. The orders’ levels, proﬁtable trades,
volumes, and sell orders markers are green.
You can set any color you like using a dropdown menu.

2.

The Settings tab.
Show volume — shows the volume indicator.
Show account history — connects the open and close pointsof your trades with a line.
Show period separators — enables the dotted vertical line
showing the end of each trading day.

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Show grid — simpliﬁes the navigation on the chart. Eachgrid line provides a trader with information about the priceand the time of the candlestick.

You can also enable or disable the mentioned parameters if you
right-click on the chart.

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Alternatively, you can navigate to the Charts tab and ﬁnd these
options in the Chart view section.

Chart in foreground — shows indicators and account history
line beneath the candlesticks line.
Show bid level — displays at which price the sell order will be
ﬁlled if you open a sell market order.
Show ask level — shows at which price the buy order will be
ﬁlled if you open a buy market order.
Show indicator values — displays the indicator’s current
value with red color at the price axis.
Enable right offset: % — deﬁnes the clear space between
the last candlestick to the price axis. If you disable thischeckbox, then no space will be visible to the right from thecandlesticks. You can adjust the offset using the slider.

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Use ﬁxed price range — displays the objects situated in thevertical range between the Top and the Bottom prices youset.
Use ﬁxed scale 1 pixel: 1 point — binds a one-point pricechange to 1 pixel of your monitor. The local maximum andminimum are always visible when it’s disabled. If you enable
the checkbox, the candlesticks’ vertical size will be changed
depending on your monitor’s screen resolution.
Use ﬁxed grid — allows you to set a custom distance for yourgrid’s line. By default, it’s drawn after every ﬁve pips.

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3.

The All Charts tab.

Using this tab, you can adjust the following settings:
Scrolling speed.
Mouse sensitivity to lines.
Magnet sensitivity to bars.
Charts’ synchronization align type.
Bars’ thickness.
Alignment of candles, when the timeframe or scalechanges.
To test the scrolling speed:

1.

Click anywhere on the chart and hold the mouse button.

2.

Drag the mouse either right or left to see the scrolling speed.

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To test the mouse sensitivity to lines:1.

Add any line to the chart by clicking the “Graphic elements”
button on the Charts tab.

2.

Double-click the line on the chart and use the drag-n-drop
method to reposition the element.
*If the mouse sensitivity value equals 3, then even if you click
3 pixels away from the line, you will still be able to move it.

All charts with the same currency pair are synchronized bydefault. When you’re scrolling within the same timeframe, allother charts will be scrolled automatically with the rightcalculation. For example, when you scroll 1 bar forward on the H1,
the M5 timeframe chart scrolls 12 bars forward, respectively.

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You can turn on/off synchronized scrolling by clicking either the....... button under the chart or the Chart view toolbar button.

There are 2 options to make the candlesticks either thinner andtherefore include more of them on the chart without scrolling or
thicker to make their appearance more prominent:

1.

Use the corresponding Magniﬁer on the toolbar

2.

Click the “+” or “–” key on your keyboard’s calculator.

.

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For the chart’s windows reposition, use buttons on the Windows
or Charts tabs:

1.

Cascade — stacks windows on one another.

2.

Tile horizontally — stretches windows from left to the right.

3.

Tile vertically — stretches windows from top to bottom.

4.

Minimize all — minimizes windows to the main program’s
window bottom.

5.

Restore All — expands windows from minimized to normal.

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DATA CENTER
HOW TO MANAGE
YOUR FOREXHISTORY DATA IN
A COUPLE OF
CLICKS
Data Center serves as the manager of historical quotes. Here you
can:
Add/delete currency symbols.
Look through / edit the properties of the currency symbols.
Download minute historical data from the server.
Import historical data from ﬁles.
Download tick data from the server.
Group the currency pairs and change settings for multiple
pairs at the same time.
Export data into CSV ﬁles.

58You can open the Data Center dialog window by clicking thecorresponding button on the Data tab.

The Data Сenter window looks like this:The upper indicator (the one that is green on the screenshot)shows the imported 1-minute data quality.
You can download free Forexite medium-quality data directlyfrom the Data center in Forex Tester or our
Data Sources page.
https://forextester.com/data/datasources
If you want to get the most accurate results, you can purchasepaid data at an affordable price.
https://forextester.com/HistoryServiceDescription

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Please note that using the lower quality data will most likely lead
to less accurate test results, which, in turn, may adversely affectthe subsequent results of trading on live accounts in case if you
choose to use your backtested trading system on the real market.
The lower indicator (the gray one with oblique lines on thescreenshot) indicates the absence of tick data in this example. Tickdata is crucial for testing short-term and scalping strategies.
If you are trading on M1-M30 timeframes, then subscribing to thehttps://forextester.
com/HistoryServiceDescription
paid
historical
data will be a good investment.

Please look at the description of the main elements below.

1)

The list of currency symbols

https://forextester.com/data/datasources

https://forextester.com/HistoryServiceDescription

60With this list, you can do the following:
Select the currency symbols for further work. After selection,
the detailed information and available actions are displayedon the right.
Delete the symbol(s). By clicking the “Delete” button under
the list, all selected symbols will be deleted.
Add a symbol using the “Add” button under the list.
Select or deselect all symbols of the list by applying thegroup settings. For example, you can select all symbols of
the list and download historical data for all symbols at once.

2)

The description of currency symbol properties

You can change currency symbol properties by clicking the“Change Properties” button.
In the Symbol properties dialog window, you can see theCommon and Commissions tabs.

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The Common tab allows you to change the following settings:
Symbol name.
Symbol type (currency pair, stock, index, or futures).
Group — a group of the symbols list which the symbol refersto.
Lot currency.
Base currency.
Lot size — the cost of 1 lot in the currency of the lot.
Leverage — the ratio between the Lot size and Margin for 1
lot. Each broker uses different leverage, so we recommend
using your broker’s leverage.

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Post decimal digits — the number of digits after the point.
For example, 1.2500 is a 4–digit value, and 1.25001 is a 5–digit
value.
Spread, points — the spread in points.
Min distance to price — a minimal distance to the current
price in points where you can place pending orders. It
deﬁnes two options:1.

A minimal distance from the current market pricewhere you can place pending orders. If you set it at 20
points and try to place a pending order 15 points
above/below the current price, you will see a message
indicating that the open price is too close.

2.

A minimal distance of SL/TP levels. If you set it at 20
points, you won’t be able to set SL/TP levels less than 20
points.

When deﬁning Stop Loss, check it to be equal or bigger than“Min distance to price”+”Spread” value, to ensure the order isplaced without any problems.
Margin currency.
Margin for 1 lot.
Hedged margin — the margin that will be calculated forhedged positions for 1 lot.
You need to disable the Use leverage info option if you wantto enter the margin values manually.

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On the Commissions tab, you can set up the next properties:
Commission per lot, USD — the brokers’ commission when
open and/or close positions. Here you can choose whencommission should be applied during testing: when open
and close position, only when you open/close the order.
Please note that when you close the position partially, thecommission will also be calculated for the part of theposition you want to close. The amount of the commission
will be displayed in the Account History tab at the bottom of
the screen after the position’s close.

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Swap long — the swap for a long position in points.
Swap short — the swap for a short position in points.
After you change the necessary options, please click the “Ok”
button.

3)

Information about downloaded data

The following dialog allows getting the information about
downloaded data and changing some importing properties.

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You can see the elements of this dialog in detail below:

1.

TimeshiftThis message shows the time zone of historical data. Bydefault, our data is provided in GMT+0 time zone.
You can change the time zone when creating a new project.

2.

Data quality indicators

This part of the window shows the quality of historical data:
Green areas display quality data without any gaps.
Red areas mean missing data.
Darkened parts indicate the presence of small
blanks.
Oblique lines show that no data has been
downloaded.

664) Data management buttons

Using these buttons, you can perform the following actions:

1.

The “Update from server” button allows you to download
https://forextester.com/importhistorical data from our server. Look for more
information
https://forextester.com/importabout downloading the data.

2.

The “Import data from a ﬁle” button allows importing
historical data from other sources. Files can have .txt, .csv
https://forextester.com/importor .hst extension. Look for more
information about
https://forextester.com/importimportingdata from a ﬁle.

3.

The “Export” button allows exporting historical data fromthe Forex Tester program into a text ﬁle for further
processing by another application (for example, Excel).
You can export data with any timeframe from Forex
Tester.

4.

The “Clear History” button allows you to delete historical
data for selected currency symbol(s). By clicking thisbutton, you can delete minute or/and tick history.

5)

Information line

67This part is located at the bottom left corner of the Data Centerwindow. The information line displays the connection state to thedata server. When the message “Connecting to the data server”
appears, we do not recommend doing any actions with data at
this time.
Also, the type of Data Subscription you are subscribed to is shown
https://forextester.com/historyservicedescription
in the information line. Look for more
info about the types of datasubscriptions
and subscribe here.
https://forextester.com/historyservicedescription

6)

The News tab

On this tab, you can ﬁnd the information about available historicalnews, download them manually or ﬁnd the link for upgrading
your subscription.
Learn
more about News.
https://forextester.com/historical-forex-news

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IMPORTING DATA.
HOW TO IMPORTFOREX DATA AND
MAKE THE MOST
OF IT
Forex Tester allows downloading historical data from our server orimporting it directly from the text ﬁles. We provide free historical
data starting from 01/01/2001 until the current moment. This data
https://forextester.Center
com/datacenter window in the Forex
can be downloaded via the Data

Tester program or https://forextester.com/data/datasources
our site’s archives.
The software converts historical data to higher timeframes
automatically, so we recommend importing 1-minute data into
the program. In this case, you will be able to use this data on any
timeframe in the Forex Tester program.
Historical data can be imported via the Data
Center
https://forextester.
com/datacenter window only.
https://forextester.
com/datacenter please click the “Data Center” button
To access the Data
Center,on the Data tab:69

Use the “Update from server” button to download data from ourserver and the “Import from a ﬁle” button to import the data froma text ﬁle.

Update history from the server
Subscribe to the https://forextester.com/historyservicedescription
Standard data service if you want to use thehistorical rates:
Of a better quality.
With 5 digits after the point (3 digits for the currency pairs
containing JPY).
If you mostly trade on M1 through M30 timeframes, the htVIP
tps:/ forextester.com/data
HistoryServiceDescription
htpackagetps:/ forextester.com/HistoryServiceDescription will suit your needs.

70The VIP data service allows:
Using tick data.
Considering spread.
Receiving the most accurate and quality results.
Get more detailed information about historical rates.
https://forextester.com/HistoryServiceDescription
The following dialog window will appear after clicking the “Updatefrom server” button:

With its help, you can add your missing data (Forex Tester
automatically determines which data is missing for the current
currency symbol) or download data over some period of time.

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1.

Information block

Here appears the information about the currency pair, theavailable data range, and the type of data loading. The data server
provides two types of data — minute and tick historical data. Tickhistory data is only available for VIP members.

2.

Date range block

Here you can deﬁne what part of history you want to download.
The “Download new history” option allows you to get
the part of history from the last update. For example,
suppose you already have the history up to 01/01/2015. Inthat case, the program will download the missing part,starting from 01/01/2015 till the last available date, andmerge new data with the previously imported history.
This method is handy to update your history from time
to time, so you always have historical data up-to-date. If
the history is empty (or cleared before import), it will
download all available history for this symbol.
The “Download part of history” option allows you to get
the history for the requested period. It will be correctly
merged with the previously imported historical data.

3.

Select data to download block

Here you can deﬁne the type of data to download:
Minute and tick history (recommended).
Only minute history. Use this option if you need toinvestigate the data on charts without testing them or iftick data is not available in your subscription.

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Only tick history. Use this option if you want to have the mostprecise data for testing.
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Click the “Update” button to start the downloading process.

Please note: if you have selected a large amount of historical data
to download, the server will need some time to prepare the ﬁles.
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IMPORT HISTORYFROM A FILE
To import the data from a ﬁle into the program, click the “Importfrom a ﬁle” button in the Data Center window.

Forex Tester can import data from any text ﬁle. The source data
should contain bars for one timeframe; the higher timeframes will
be generated automatically. We recommend importing data of aone-minute timeframe. If you use the higher ones, the lower
timeframes will be displayed incorrectly, resulting in poor testing
quality.

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The following dialog window will appear after clicking the “Importhistory data” button:

Select a ﬁle to import by clicking the “...” button.

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Download Data ﬁles from our site.
Once the ﬁle is selected, Forex Tester will try to determine thedestination currency automatically and select it in the “Import tosymbol:” dropdown menu.
If the ﬁle does not contain information about the currency, theprogram will not be able to determine it automatically, so you will
have to select the currency from the list manually.

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The Shift time (hours) slider allows changing the timezone ofimporting historical data. It is important if you want to import datafrom different sources (with different time zones) and have thesame time zone for all data.
There is also the option to delete all previously imported data forthe symbol.

Once everything is set, click the “Next” button.

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You can see the elements of this dialog in detail below:

You will see the dialog such above if the text format is selected.
The program will try to determine all ﬁelds automatically, but you
can also change them manually.
Column separator — the character that separates
columns in the text ﬁle. Usually, it is a comma or
semicolon.
Date format. YYYY is a year ﬁeld, MM is a month ﬁeld,
and DD is a day ﬁeld.

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Column1 ... Column10 — data columns. They cancontain the following values:

Source ﬁle — the part of the source ﬁle.
Preview results — the results of ﬁle conversion.

Note: if columns are deﬁned incorrectly, or some information is
missing, you will see a red text indicating the number of errors.

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To import historical data, click the “Import” button.
When Forex Tester ﬁnishes importing historical data, you will see
the message below:

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CREATING A NEW
PROJECT
HOW TO OPEN
PROJECT EASILY
You need to prepare historical data before testing.
The “New Project” button allows you to select symbols you wantto test, test time period, initial deposit in USD, etc.
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We recommend creating separate projects to test different
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trading strategies or speciﬁc combinations of trading strategies.
This way, it will be easier for you to understand which strategies (orcombinations of strategies) work and which don’t.
Please note: you can use real historical tick data during testing(available for subscribers of VIP data service).
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Click the “New Project” button on the Home tab to start a new
project.

https://forextester.com/datacenter80Set the project’s name and an initial deposit in USD in theappeared window and click “Next” to continue.

Activate the pairs you want to test from the list in the window thatappeared.
*You can select all of them using the “Select All” button and test
more than one currency symbol simultaneously. However, we do
not recommend selecting all currency pairs because it slows
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down the testing. Select only those currency pairs that arenecessary.

81Set the project’s name and an initial deposit in USD in theappeared window and click “Next” to continue.

Specify the start and end dates of the period that will be shown
during testing in the “From date” and “To date” ﬁelds.
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The “Advanced settings” button invokes the corresponding
window for the settings adjustment.

Two methods of ticks’ generation are available in Forex Tester:
1.

Generate ticks by OHLC points. Each bar will contain 1-4
ticks based on the given bar’s Open/High/Low/Close
values (less than 4 ticks are possible if Open=High, or
Low=Close).

2.

Generate ticks randomly by volume. The number ofticks inside a 1-minute bar will be equal to this bar’s
volume. Ticks will be distributed randomly inside a singlebar.

*We recommend using the ﬁrst method of ticks generation, as it is
the fastest and gives a good testing quality.

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If you have selected to Use minute and tick data, the “Use ﬂoating
spread” option will be available in this window. This feature is vitalfor all intraday traders (timeframes M1, M5, M15, M30, H1) to obtainthe most precise test results.
Click the “Next” button after selecting all the necessary
parameters.
Suppose you created a project for several currency pairs, and oneof them lacks data. In this case, you will see the following window:

If there is a period you do not have the matching data in the
project, it will be marked in red. Download missing history data
for these currency pairs and recreate the project.

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If you want to skip this step, click the “Next” button.
*Bear in mind that there will be a “No data” message on thesymbol’s chart with missed data after the test begins.

85Select the time zone of historical data by using the “Timezone”
slider. The selected time zone will be applied to all selected pairs
for testing. The default time zone is GMT+0.
The “Session close time” dropdown menu determines thedisplaying of bars according to the closing time of the session thatyou need.
The program has 4 predeﬁned Session closing times (Sydney,
Tokyo, London, and New York) and a custom time. If you select oneof the dropdown menu items, the Time Zone slider automaticallymoves to the corresponding GMT.
By default, data without applying Daylight Saving Time is used
when creating a new project. If necessary, apply DST that matches
your region from the dropdown list.
“Start testing from the ﬁrst date in range” option uses the datefrom the “From date” ﬁeld of the previous window.
To change the starting date, use the “Set start day” option. Thus,
the testing will be started from a further date, and all previous
data will be shown on the chart.
This option will be useful if you want to build lines/indicators
based on previous bars immediately or analyze previous data andstart trading based on them.
You can either choose the “Start testing after creation” option tostart the testing immediately after the project is created or use the“Forward testing only mode” option to make it as close as
possible to real conditions.

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The last means that you cannot go backward in your testing. You
can only restart the project.
After the conﬁguration is complete, click the “Create” button toﬁnish data preparation. The test will start automatically.
If the testing hasn’t started after creation, click the “Start” buttonon the Home tab to start it manually.

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START TESTING
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After importing historical data and preparing it for testing by
creating a new project, you can start testing a trading strategy.
Press the “Start” button to start testing immediately.
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When the testing begins, the bars start moving on the chart(s),and the “Start” button changes to “Pause”

88The pausing allows you to suspend the price changing andanalyze the current situation.
*You can also use the Pause Break key on your keyboard to pause
and resume the testing.
Use the following toolbar to adjust the bars’ settings on thechart(s):1.

The “Speed of testing” slider deﬁnes how fast the pricechanges.

2.

The “Bar back” button (available only when the Pause isset) deletes 1 bar in terms of the current timeframe.
Suppose the current timeframe is 1 hour. In this case, youwill go back for 1 hour, and if there were closed trades,
they would be restored.
*You can also use the Backspace key on your keyboard
for this purpose.

3.

The “Bar forward” button (available only when the Pause
is set) proceeds 1 bar forward in terms of the current
timeframe.
Suppose the current timeframe is 30 min. In this case,
you will go 30 min forward.
*You can also use the Space key on your keyboard for thispurpose.

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4.

The “Jump to” button allows you to perform a quick jump
to a particular date and time (the Go To option) or ﬁnd anecessary point on the time axis (the Search option).

Specify the date and time you’re looking for in thecorresponding ﬁeld.
Press the “Search” button.
Please note that in case you enter the date in “future”, your orders
will be executed or closed automatically by strategy rules or Stop
Loss/Take Proﬁt. In case you enter the date in the “past”, yourorders will be deleted. If you want just to search the particular date
and time in the chart without orders execution/deletion please
select the Search option.

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Specify the date and time you’re looking for in thecorresponding ﬁeld.
Choose whether you want to ﬁnd this date on thecurrent chart only or all charts involved in the
project.
Press the “Search” button.

5.

The “Tick” button (available only when the Pause is set)
allows you to go forward in time deﬁned by the “Tickpackage size” (6) on the current timeframe.
*You can use the F11 key on your keyboard for thispurpose.

Please note: you can change the hotkeys for these and otheractions via the “Hotkeys” button on the Settings tab.

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The described above is a visual testing mode that allows you to see
your https://forextester.com/placeorder
trades and place them manually to check how your strategy
works.
Forex Tester can also test automated strategies written with C++
and Delphi. You can ﬁnd API and examples on how to write
custom indicators and strategies in the \Examples\ folder after
installation. API help can be enabled over the API Help menu on
the Help tab in Forex Tester. For more info, check our forum:
Programming
lessons
Forex
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php?f=9 & https:/ www.forextester.Testercom/forum/viewforum.API.
php?f=8
Backtest automated strategies using the “Quick Test” button on
the Strategies tab.

You can also create an expert advisor according to your personal
preferences, modify and reﬁne as much as you need it even
without coding skills or trading experience. Check out https://tools.
Easy forextester.
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PLACING ORDERS
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After starting the test, you can place orders in the Forex Tester
program.
There are two types of orders:
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A market order — a position ishttps://forextester.
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the current market price.
A pending order — a position is placed at desired priceand will be executed when the market price hits thatlevel.

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You can place, modify or delete orders using the buttons locatedin the Order tab.

1.

Market order — opens the Market order dialog window
to place a new market order (you can also use the F2 key).

2.

Pending order (F3) — opens the Pending order dialog
window to place a new pending order.

3.

Modify order (F4) — allows you to change Stop Loss andTake Proﬁt parameters for already opened market orders,
as well as both Stop Loss / Take Proﬁt levels and theorder’s entry price for pending orders.
* To make changes, select the order ﬁrst in Open
Positions or Pending Orders tabs in the Terminal
window.
* You can also use this window to close the trade.

4.

Close order (F5) — closes the selected open position.

5.

Close all positions and orders (Ctrl+C) — closes all open
market and pending orders.

5.

Close all positions and orders (Ctrl+C) — closes all open
market and pending orders.

6.

Open Group of orders (Ctrl+O) — places a group of orders
with predeﬁned parameters.

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Duplicate position — makes a copy of the selected orderwith the same SL/TP and lot values.

8.

Deposit money — allows adding money to your virtual
account.

9.

Move Stop Loss to Breakeven — allows quickly set the SL
value as the price of entry point.

10. Open Forex Speed Up — runs the one-click trading tool.
Most of these buttons are duplicated in the right mouse click
popup menu in the Open Positions and Pending orders tabs:

There are also some additional buttons in this menu:
11.

Close part of position (Ctrl+F5) — partially closes theselected order.

12. Delete pending order (F6) — deletes the selectedpending order.

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MARKET ORDERDIALOGYou can place a new market order here. There are the Common
and Trailing Stop tabs in this dialog window.

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1.

The Common tab

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Symbol — a dropdown list with the currency pairs
you can trade.
Lot — a dropdown list with the order’s lot size thatyou can set manually.

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The “Calculate with risk %” option deﬁnes the lot
size based on risk management.
* Note that if you choose a risk-based lot calculation,
you must enter a Stop loss value.
The “sell” and “buy” radio buttons are used to deﬁne
the calculation mode — sell or buy.
The “Stop loss” and “Take proﬁt” options are used toadjust SL and TP values. You can deﬁne the priceeither manually by simply typing it directly in or
using droplet buttons to pick it up directly from thechart, or automatically using the simple calculator
on the right.
2.

The Trailing stop tab

Allows you to deﬁne trailing stop parameters for this order.
1.

The Activate on block
Immediately — trailing stop will be activated
immediately after placing an order.
If proﬁt is bigger or equal — trailing stop will be
activated when the proﬁt of the order is higher or
equal to the selected value.

1.

The Trailing settings block
Trailing stop (points): — the size of trailing stop in
points.
Step of change (points): — stop loss will be changed
when the proﬁt exceeds the selected number ofpoints from its previous ﬁxed value.

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PENDING ORDERDIALOGYou can place a new pending order here. This window has thesame Common and Trailing stop tabs, but with the slightdifference.

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The Type of the pending order — buy limit, sell limit,
buy stop, sell stop.
At what price your order should be executed.
Please note that the order type will affect your SL and TP values
calculation.

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You can also place orders using a popup menu by the right mouseclick on the chart.

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This menu allows you to pick up the price from the chart at the
point where you right-clicked.
You can see this price in the menu (here 1.24030). In this example,
you have 5 choices:

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Sell with the predeﬁned Stop Loss at 1.24030 price.
Place Buy Stop order at 1.24030 price.
Sell Limit order at 1.24030 price.

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Execute a quick buy order (Ctrl+B) with predeﬁned
parameters.
Execute a quick sell order (Ctrl+S) with predeﬁned
parameters.
* The predeﬁned parameters are Stop Loss / Take Proﬁt, Trailingstop, Lot size. You can deﬁne these parameters by clicking the“Default orders” button on the Settings tab:https://forextester.com/datacenter
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ADJUSTING THE
DEFAULT ORDER

https://forextester.com/datacenterIf you set there only 1 order in the list, the order will be set
immediately after pressing Ctrl+B / Ctrl+S. Otherwise you will be
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Note: you can change the hotkeys for these and other actions via
the “Hotkeys” button on the Settings tab.

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FOREX SPEED UP
TOOL
In the Forex Tester 5 version, we’ve included the One-click-trading
Forex Speed Up tool as a button in the Order tab.

You can also ﬁnd this button in the Action/Orders menu on the
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103After the ﬁrst start, you will see the window where you candownload and install the Forex SpeedUP. All further starts will callup the tool in a separate window.

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Click the “Download” button. The tool will be downloaded andadded to your Forex Tester 5 automatically.
After installation, the tool will start automatically. You will see thefollowing window:
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1.

The “Gear” button — calls up the Settings window.

The Settings window has 2 tabs: General and Aliases.

On the General tab, you can ﬁnd the following settings:
Opacity — allows setting transparency of the window.
Always on top — allows to leave the program always“above” all other windows even if it does not have focus.
Show orders table — enables the list of orders.
On the Aliases tab, you can ﬁnd the list of symbols with their shortnames called aliases. To add a new alias, click the “Add new
button” and ﬁll in the ﬁelds.

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To delete the alias, click on the “X” button next to the one you don’tneed.

To save the changes, click the “Save” button.

2.

The “New Shortcut” button — allows adding a new ordershortcut to the window.

The settings on this window are divided into 2 groups: for single
orders and groups of orders.
On the Single tab, there are the following settings:

106Market/pending order — allows choosing between
market or pending order.
Symbol — symbol name.
Set SL/ TP in — an option that deﬁnes how the SL andTP will be set (in “pips” or “exact price”).
Lot management — an option that allows selecting how
the lot (contract) size will be set — based on the Risk %or ﬁxed lot value.
On the Group tab, you can add a group of orders and deﬁne theparameters for them so you will be able to open several orders at
the same time.

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3.

The “Close window” button.

4.

Current price monitor — allows you to switch between
showing Bid and Ask prices by clicking the corresponding
buttons.

5.

The shortcuts for the orders.
The upper shortcut is for the order with a lot (contract) basedon the Risk%. Requires the SL value ﬁlled.
The lower shortcut is for the order with a ﬁxed lot (contract)
value.

6.

The Stop Loss ﬁeld. Required for the lot based on the Risk %.

7.

The Take Proﬁt ﬁeld.

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The “BUY” button — opens long positions.

9.

The “SELL” button — opens short positions.

10. The button that allows deleting the shortcut.

You can drag the Forex SpeedUp window to any location of yourscreen. Grab the window at any point (except buttons and text
boxes) and carry it to the desired place.

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MODIFYINGORDERS
HOW TO EASILY
MODIFY ORDERS
IN FOREX
TRADINGSIMULATOR
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After placing orders (market or pending), you can change most of
their settings.
For market orders, you can modify:
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The Stop Loss and Take Proﬁt levels.

Trailing Stop parameters.
For pending orders, you can change:
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The Stop Loss and Take Proﬁt levels.
Trailing Stop parameters.
If you place only one order, you can modify it by clicking the“Modify order” button on the Order tab.

Or by choosing the “Modify order” option from the dropdown
menu next to the “Pending order” button on the Home tab.

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You can also use the F4 key on your keyboard for that purpose.
If you place more than one order, you need to select the one youwant to change the settings for in the Open Positions or Pending
Orders tabs at ﬁrst, and then click the “Modify order” button.

You can also use the right mouse click on order and select the“Modify Order” option from a popup menu.

Double-click the left mouse button on the order to move the chart
to the time when the order is placed. You will see a vertical linethat highlights that moment and a “Modify order” dialog opened.
The parameters that can’t be modiﬁed are grayed out. By clicking
the “Close position” button, you can close the opened order.

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There are toolbar buttons, hotkeys, dropdown, and popup menus
to close the opened positions or delete pending orders as well —use any you’re ﬁne with.
There is also an option to move the SL/TP of market orders and theexecution price of pending orders by drag-n-dropping the chart’slines.

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USING
INDICATORSFOREX TRADING
INDICATORS: AN
ULTIMATE TOOLTO SPOT THE
TREND AND SET
UP THE TRADE
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You can add an indicator or oscillator to the chart by clicking the“List of indicators” buttonon the Home tab.
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In Forex Tester, we got all indicators divided into 6 groups
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In addition, you can right-click on the chart and select “Add
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Note: you can download more indicators from our repository via
the List of Indicators → Recommended Indicators menu.
You will see the following dialog window where you can modify
the indicator’s properties before it is placed on the chart.

To modify the indicator’s parameters, double-click on it or use the
combination: left mouse click + Enter key.
Some of the properties may have a dialog window or dropdown
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To apply changes, either press the Enter or Tab key or left-click on
the dialog. If you need to cancel the changes you’ve made, press
the Esc key.
Each indicator is linked to one timeframe of the chart window. So,
if you place it on the H1 timeframe, you will not see it on othertimeframes (15 min, 1 min, etc.). It is done for optimization
purposes. Otherwise, it’ll slow down the testing process
signiﬁcantly.
We recommend you to place indicators only on those timeframes
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To edit the indicator on the chart, right-click on the indicator’s line
and select the “Edit …” option. Use the “Delete …“ option to deleteit.

You can combine more than one indicator in the oscillator
window. Right-click in the oscillator window and select “Addindicator to Window”.

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If you close the oscillator’s window, all other indicators in thiswindow will be deleted.
You can view and manage all indicators on all charts andtimeframes with the help of the List of indicators → Current chart
button.

You can edit indicator properties, delete indicators, or delete allindicators on all charts at once.
Custom indicators in *.dll / *.mq4 format can be installed using theList of indicators → Install New Indicator button.
After importing, you can ﬁnd your indicators in the List of
indicators → Custom submenu.

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The list of built-in Forex Tester indicators:
1.1

Trend indicators:
Adaptive Moving Average 2 (AMA2)
Alligator (B.Williams)
BBandWidthRatio
Bollinger Bands
DeMarker
Donchian Channel + Midline
Envelopes
Heikin Ashi
HMA Colored
Ichimoku
Keltner Channels
Linear Regression Channel
MA Colored
MA Crossover Signals
Moving Average

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Moving Average + Levels
Parabolic-SAR
Pivot Points
Price Channel
ZigZag1.2 Oscillators:

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Accelerator Oscillator (B.Williams)
Aroon
Average Directional Movement Index (ADX)
Awesome Oscillator (B.Williams)
Bears Power

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Bulls Power
MACD
MACD newMomentumPolarized Fractal Efﬁciency (PFE)Price Daily Range
Rate of Change (ROC)
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Solar Wind
Stochastic
Trade dynamic index (TDI)
Ultimate Oscillator
Williams’ Percent Range (%R)
1.3 Volume indicators:
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MarketProﬁle(old)Market Facilitation Index (MFI)

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On Balance Volume (OBV)
Volume1.4 Volatility:
ADR
Average True Range
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ATR_MA
Bollinger Bands %b

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Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
Elder’s Force Index
Engulﬁng Bar
Fractals (B.Williams)
FTLM-STLM
Gann HiLo
I-Sessions
Inside Bar
PCCI
Range Bars
Range Expansions Index
Time box

This list of indicators is not ﬁnal. It will be updated as the new
indicators will be added to Forex Tester 5.

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USING NEWSSERVICEFOR TRADERSWHOSE TRADINGSTRATEGIES AREBASED ON NEWSANALYSIS
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In Forex Tester 5, you have the opportunity to use the news
calendar.
To update the news, click the “Update News” button on the Datatab to open the Data Center window.

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You can see the list of currencies for which data is provided on ourserver on the left and 3 bars indicating the availability of news
according

to

your

subscription:high,medium,andlowimportance on the right. Each bar displays the start and end datesof the available news. If the bar is green, data for that period has
already been downloaded. If the bar is gray, the news for the
speciﬁed period is available on the server. The date and time when
the news information was last updated are displayed under thebars.

Note that only news of USD currency is available in the Basic(Forexite free data) subscription.
All other currencies are available in Standard and VIP
subscriptions.

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options
Upgrade” button.
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The “Update News from server” button allows you to update thenews immediately.
If news data cannot be updated for some reason, you will get an
information message.
The news displaying is enabled by default. The news appears at
the bottom of the chart as ﬂags. The color of the ﬂag border (red,yellow, green) indicates its importance.
Green color: it is unlikely that the market will makehuge moves.
Yellow color: the news is likely to provoke a few
signiﬁcant market moves.
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To disable the news, right-click on the chart and uncheck the“Show news” item.

You can also enable ﬁltering news by chart currency. To do that,click the “Chart settings” item and check the corresponding
option on the tab.

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The News tab is displayed to the Journal tab’s right by default at
the bottom of the Forex Tester terminal.
On this tab, you will ﬁnd the following columns:
Date/Time — the date and time of the news release.
Symbol — the symbol to which this news relates.
Event — the name of the news.
Priority — the importance of the news.
Actual — the actual news value.
Forecast — the forecast news value.
Previous — the previous news value.
All news on the News tab and the chart are synchronized. When
you click any line of the News tab, it becomes highlighted, thechart is scrolled to the corresponding news icon (ﬂag) and marked
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The cursor hovering on the corresponding news ﬂag on the chartshows pop-up information about the news.
If the news for different symbols comes out at once, the news
icons collapse into one icon of the Earth with the number
indicating the quantity of news at a given time. The hovering overthis icon shows you a pop-up window with information on thisnews.
For your convenience of using the news in your trade strategy, you
can use the ﬁlters on the News tab by clicking the “Show Filters”
button.

In the drop-down lists, you can select:
The date and time of displayed news.
One or more symbols of the project to display the
new for.
To show the news of only high, medium, or low
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By clicking the “Apply” button, all the selected ﬁlters will beapplied to the list and to the news displaying on the charts within
the project.

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USING GRAPHICTOOLSGRAPHIC TOOLS:TAKE YOUR
FOREX LEARNING
TO THE NEXTLEVEL EASILY
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Forex Tester has a large variety of charting tools such as:
Pointers (arrow pointer, crosshair pointer).
Lines (Vertical line, Horizontal line, Trend line, Ray,
Polyline).

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Shapes (Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle).
Signs (Thumb up, Thumb down, Arrow up, Arrow
down, Stop sign, Check sign, Right price label, Leftprice label, Price label).

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Fibonacci tools (Fibonacci retracement, Fibonacci
time zones, Fibonacci fan, Fibonacci arc, Fibonacci
extension).
Channels (Fibo channel, Linear regression channel)
Andrews’ Pitchfork.
Text label.
Wave symbols.
Risk/Reward tool.

You can ﬁnd all of them by clicking the “Graphic elements”
button.

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You can turn on the Graphic Panel to conveniently use all thegraphical tools by clicking the

button.

The Graphic Panel is ﬂoating and can be moved freely to any
place on your screen. The panel can be displayed horizontally andvertically, as well as you can close it anytime by clicking the “X”
button.
Let’s take a look at the buttons on the panel.
— enables a “crosshair” mode.
The crosshair lines are movable lines that can be used to specify
and measure positions on the chart.
If you hold down the left mouse button in the crosshair cursor
mode and drag it to any of the sides, you can get the following
information:
1.

The number of bars between the start and end points ofthe crosshair.

2.

Price change in pips and percentage.

3.

The interval between the start and end points of the crossin days/hours /minutes.

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— enables synchronizing crosshair on all charts.

The crosshair mouse pointer is represented on all charts with all
timeframe differences kept.

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The line drawing is easy:
1.

Select the necessary tool and left-click once to set theﬁrst point (in the Vertical and Horizontal lines, it will be
only 1 point).

2.

Drag your mouse and left-click to set the second point.

3.

If you decide to cancel the drawing, right-click to cancel
the operation.

Some tools like Polyline or Andrews’ Pitchfork require more than 2points to place.

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In the Channels group, you will ﬁnd the Fibonacci Channel tooland the Linear Regression Channel.

Select the necessary tool to add it to the chart and choose thestart point. Then, move the mouse to the second point andleft-click to ﬁnish drawing the tool.
You can add different signs to the chart by clicking the “Icons”
button.

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The Fibonacci tools group consists of 5 instruments for chart
analysis:1.

Fibonacci Retracement.

2.

Fibonacci Time Zones.

3.

Fibonacci Arc.

4.

Fibonacci Fan.

5.

Fibonacci Extension.

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The construction of objects with these tools has common
principles:1.

Select the tool from the Graphic Elements → Fibonacci
tools menu.

2.

Move t he mouse to the ﬁrst point and left-click.

3.

Move the mouse to the second point and left-click toﬁnish drawing the tool.

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Forex Tester has the Andrews’ Pitchfork tool among its
instruments. You can add Andrews’ Pitchfork to a chart by clicking
thebutton in the Graphic elements

menu.
Place three basic points of the tool by left-clicking (like drawing
the triangle). If the Magnet mode is enabled, the triangle’s end
points will snap to the bars’ control points.
The “Text labels” button allows you to add any text to your chart.
You can also add it by pressing the Ctrl+T combination on yourkeyboard.
Left-click on the chart to place a Text label. You will see the Text
settings window:

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Here you can write any text, which will be shown on the chart (inthe Text: ﬁeld), and also change the format of text (font type andsize, color of the text, base point, and text alignment). Click the“Apply” button to ﬁnish the text adding.

To change the Text Label properties, right-click on the text andselect the Edit Text option.
The Wave symbols tool allows you to mark waves on the chart in aconvenient way. Just select the symbol from the window by theleft-click and put it on the chart.

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For example, if you select the ﬁrst symbol in a table and thenleft-click on a chart, the [I] symbol will be placed. If you left-click
one more time, the [II] symbol will be placed on the chart. And soon.
Each tool has its properties. To edit them, right-click the tool andselect “Edit tool”. You can also duplicate this tool or delete it using
this menu.

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To select the tool, double-left-click it. You will see white points
which you can move to change the shape and position of the tool.
If you press the Delete key, all selected tools in this chart window
will be deleted. To deselect the tool, double-left-click it one more
time.
There are some hotkeys that will help you to manage graphic
tools:
Ctrl + G — to select all the tools on the chart.
Ctrl + D — to deselect all the tools on the chart.
Ctrl + Del — to delete the last added tool.
Ctrl + A — to delete all the tools on the chart (selected or not).
Delete — to delete only selected tools on the chart.
Note that all the hotkeys can be changed via the “Hot Keys”
button on the Settings tab.
You can see these shortcuts through the right-click popup menu
or Graphic elements menu.
You can also view all tools currently added to a selected chart andchange or delete any of them using the “List of objects” button.

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To synchronize graphical tools on all charts and timeframes of one
currency pair, use the Paint toolbar’s button
When this mode is active, all new graphical objects created on
one of the charts will appear on all other charts with the same
currency pair.
For example, you can add a trend line to one chart, and then it willappear on all of your charts.
Similarly, graphical tools created on different charts (with thesame currency pair) are connected. If you delete one, other tools
related to it will also be removed from the rest of the charts.

The Risk/Reward tool
The Risk/Reward tool shows the difference between the potential
loss and the potential proﬁt of your Buy or Sell trade, depending
on initial preferences.
You can ﬁnd the tool in the Graphic Elements menu (as well as in
the Graphic Panel).

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To begin drawing the tool, you need to select the trade type youwant to see Risk/Reward for and choose between Risk/Reward
Buy or Risk/Reward Sell.
After clicking the necessary Risk/Reward type, you will see thefollowing window:

Lot (position size) can be calculated based on Balance (by default),
Equity, or Custom value.
Deﬁne the risk amount and click “Apply”.
Select the place on the chart where the tool will be displayed.
The drawing tool will show you the following information about
the further trade:1.

Lot (position size).

2.

The Take proﬁt level.

3.

The Stop Loss level.

4.

Risk/Reward ratio.

5.

Proﬁt in USD and points.

6.

Loss in USD and points.

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Please note that you can move, resize, change properties and
SL/TP levels of the tool after applying to the chart anytime youneed to. In this case, all the values will be recalculated
automatically.
If you need to change the SL or TP level, drag up/down thecorresponding rectangle’s outer corner.
To change some tool parameters, like name, style, the risk for lot
calculation, right-click on the border or corner of the ﬁgure andselect “Edit”.
You can also place the pending order using this tool: right-click on
the ﬁgure’s border or corner and select “Place pending order” inthe menu. The program automatically detects the type of
pending order and places it at the level that corresponds to theprice in the “Open at” ﬁeld, as well as ﬁlls in the SL and TP values.

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USING TEMPLATESAND DESKTOPSBUILT-IN
TEMPLATES: THE
PROVEN WAY TO
EASILY MASTERBACKTESTING
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A template is a complete set of one chart window’s conﬁguration,
including indicators, painting tools, and chart color scheme.
You can use templates to make your testing easier and more
comfortable. When all settings are put up, you can save yourtemplate.

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To save your template, please do the following:1.

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You can also save your template by right-clicking on the chart andselecting Chart Templates → Save Template.
2.

Click the “Save Template” button.

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3.

Type the template’s name and tick the necessary item.

There are several save options available:
Save color scheme — saves the color scheme of thecurrent chart, both main and additional, as well as
bars, grid settings, etc.
Save graphic instrument — saves all graphical tools.
Save indicators — saves all chosen indicators for all
timeframes of the current chart.
Uncheck and select the necessary items, or leave as it is by default.
Note: If you plan to apply the template to another currency, it’sbetter to exclude the option “Save graphic instruments” as they
will be copied in a non-appropriate way.

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3.

Type the template’s name and tick the necessary item.

If you need to use this template as the default one, you can checkthe “Save template as default” option. The template will beapplied to all new charts automatically.
To apply the template, right-click on the chart → Templates →<Name of the template> or click the “Chart Templates menu”
button → <Name of the template> on the Charts tab.

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Note: The chart changes according to the Template, so thetimeframe will shift to the one saved in your template. That meansthat the template saves a complete state of the chart, including
timeframes and indicators applied to the selected timeframes
only.
To rename or delete the templates:
1.

Right-click on the chart and select Chart Templates →Edit Templates:

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2.

Select the template you need from the list.

3.

Click the “Rename” button to make changes andconﬁrm.

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4.

Or click the “Delete” button and conﬁrm the deletion of
the template.

You can also view your templates by clicking the “Chart
Templates” button on the Charts tab.

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When right-clicking on the chart and choosing the Templates →default, the default settings will be applied to the chart.
To rename or delete the templates:

If you want to move your templates from one computer toanother, for instance, go to the Forex Tester folder (C:\ForexTester
folder by default), select the Templates folder, and copy all yourtemplates to some additional folder on your computer in order torestore them when it’s necessary.
The Forex Tester program allows saving the charts, indicators, andgraphical instruments as a single ﬁle and then loading this ﬁleagain to restore all necessary conﬁguration.
For example, you can have 4 charts open in the program, add
indicators and graphical instruments onto these charts, and thensave them as a desktop on your local disk via the Desktop → Save
Desktop menu on the Charts tab.

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After that, you need to enter the name of a saved desktop andselect the folder where the desktop will be saved.
The desktop ﬁle has a *.dsk extension.
You can load your saved desktop via the Desktop → Load Desktop
menu on the Charts tab.

Please note that the desktop will be applied only to the currency
pair it was initially saved for. If you save the desktop on a particularcurrency pair and then select a new currency pair when creating
the project — the desktop will not be applied. The program will
warn you about that with the information message.

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By selecting Desktop → Restore Default Desktop, you will load thedefault desktop. Please note that this will delete your chart, so werecommend saving graphics from your chart as a template via
Chart Templates → Save Template on the Charts tab.

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SAVING PROJECTSHOW TO SAVE
YOUR PROJECTSAND EFFECTIVELYLEARN LESSONSFROM YOURTRADING
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A project is a saved testing strategy with all its features inclusively.
The project saves all its structure with orders, charts, andindicators placed on these charts. After the project opening, its
entire saved features & elements will be restored.
To save your current project, click the “Save project” button Hometab.

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Type in the project’s name, and click Save.

You can see the project’s name in brackets.

To open your saved project, click the “Open project” button on the
Home tab.

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You’ll see the window with the list of saved projects. Select the
project you need and click Open.

You can use such a point of restoration to save some essential
parts while testing the same strategy, and then when it isnecessary, reverse to any of its points you have saved.
Project restoration saves your time: you can save just your strategy
project, or even a couple of parts of the same strategy, and thencome back to any saved point any time you wish. It’s easy, quick,and practical and allows you to save the point you want or freeze
some interesting trading spots.
You can start a current project from the beginning at any time oftesting by clicking the “Restart Project” button.

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Note that this action will delete all your current trades andaccount history.

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An Expert Adviser is a program based on some trading strategy,
and can automatically open and close the trades.
To backtest the EAs already included in Forex Tester, click the “Listof strategies” button on the Strategies tab.
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Make

sure

that

the

strategy

executionisenabled.

The“Enable/Disable strategy execution”
button on the toolbar should be active.
We will cover the topic of Expert Advisers on the Awesome EA
strategy example.

1.

Click the “List of Strategies” button and activate theswitch next to the AwesomeEA.

2.

Double-click the strategy’s name or click the gear
button to open the properties window.

3.

Choose the symbol from the drop-down menu.

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4.

Select the timeframe to test your strategy.

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5.

Set up a lot size.

6.

Pick the Fast (F) and Slow (S) periods for moving average.

7.

Select the moving average and price for applying.

8.

Click “Apply”.

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9.

Click “Close” to exit the List of strategies window.

10. Click the “Start” button to begin the testing process.

Forex Tester will automatically open and close orders due to thestrategy rules programmed in the Expert Adviser.

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Click “Close” to exit the List of strategies window.

To add a custom EA ﬁle with a *.dll extension, click the “AddStrategy” button on the Strategies tab.

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ACCOUNTHISTORY
IMPROVE YOURTRADING RESULTS
BY SIMPLYLEARNING FROMSTATISTICS
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The statistics on the strategy’s performance are displayed during
the test and after the testing is ﬁnished. The Statistics windowshows the most important indicators suchas: com/datacenter
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The number of total proﬁt and loss trades.
Maximum proﬁt and loss trade.
Net proﬁt.
Proﬁt per month.
Average proﬁtable and losing trade.
Maximum drawdown.

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You can add the Proﬁt chart for analysing your trade strategy byclicking the “Proﬁt Chart” button on the Charts tab.

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A proﬁt chart is an individual chart that contains the speciﬁccandlestick chart and three additional lines:
1.

The Balance line (green) displays your deposit changes.

2.

The Margin line (gray).

3.

The Drawdown line (red).

4.

The Proﬁt chart — a set of candlesticks that gives a visualcomprehending of how the equity changes.

The balance and equity’s main difference is that the balance line
can be built only when the trade is closed, whereas the equity line
shows all the changes in the account for both open and closed
trades.
You can export the Proﬁt chart to ﬁle or excel for further analysis.
To do that, right-click anywhere on the chart and select Export
Equity to a File / Excel.

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If you right-click the Statistics window, you will be able to export
these data to Excel or a *.txt ﬁle.

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You can disable the statistics window by clicking the “Statistics”
button on the Windows tab.

Account History
You can also view your Proﬁt and Loss in points on the AccountHistory tab in the “Proﬁt/Loss” row.

Use different ﬁlters to make your trading analysis moreconvenient by clicking the Show ﬁlters link.

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You can apply any of the represented ﬁlters:
1.

Date ﬁlter — show orders by Open, Close, Open andClose, Open or Close dates.

2.

Symbol — show only selected symbols.

3.

Type — show only Buy or Sell or All orders.

4.

Proﬁt — show all or only proﬁtable/unproﬁtable orders.

Click Apply to ﬁlter the values, or Clear to reset the ﬁlters.

You can also export the account history to Excel or text ﬁle byright-clicking the Account history tab and selecting a necessary
export option.

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STRATEGY
OPTIMIZER
In Forex Tester 5, we’ve added the Strategy Optimizer feature with
AI-based algorithms. This feature allows you to select the optimal
parameters for your automatic strategy (expert) to gain the best
proﬁt.
The “Strategy Optimizer” button is located on the Strategies tab.

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Before optimization, you need to make a preliminary step andadjust the initial settings.
In the 1st stage of the initial, you need to select the Strategy (EA)
from the list and add your custom strategy by clicking the “Addnew strategy” menu item.
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Let’s have a look at how the tool works on the AwesomeEA
strategy example. After choosing the strategy, click Next.
In the 2nd stage, you need to select the optimization algorithm:
1.

Full grid. This algorithm is the simplest and lacks AI
methods. Every test run (called iteration) goes throughevery single combination of a given set of parameters
based on historical data. The more combinations, themore iterations, the more time it takes to get the results.
The method’s accuracy is the highest — up to 99%, but
the speed is the lowest. The Full grid is available for allusers even without Paid Data Service subscription.

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2.

Neural Network — an AI based algorithm. The complex
mathematical formulas that underlie this algorithm canselect the strategy parameters with a high level ofaccuracy — up to 95%. This precision is achieved by using
a minimal dataset, so that you can get the result 10–100
times faster in comparison with a full grid (Brute Force)
test.

3.

XGBoost — an AI based algorithm. Takes advantage ofthe most powerful and advanced ML technique, whichallows performing parallel tree boosting to ﬁlter out
inappropriate options as early as possible. It provides aneven faster work than a Neural Network without loss of
the result accuracy (up to 95%).

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When you’re ready with the algorithm selection, click Next.

In the 3rd stage, choose the symbol and timeframe. It is also
necessary to select the dates for the data on which the iterations
will run.
Please check one of the options:Use 1-minute data (less precise, suitable for Basicand Standard
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Use

1-minute

and

tick

data

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The Advanced settings button allows adjusting additionalparameters, such as the Tick generation method and Floating
spread.

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Generate ticks by OHLC points — if you select this method, eachbar will contain 1-4 ticks based on Open/High/Low/Close values of
the given bar (less than 4 ticks are possible in the situation when
Open=High, or Low=Close).
Generate ticks randomly by volume — the number of ticks inside
a 1-minute bar will be equal to this bar’s volume. Ticks will be
distributed randomly inside a single bar.
We recommend using the ﬁrst method of ticks generation, as it is
the fastest and gives a good testing quality.
If you have activated the Use minute and tick data option, the Use
ﬂoating spread option will be available in the advanced settings
window. This feature is important for all intraday traders(timeframes M1, M5, M15, M30, H1) to obtain the most precise test
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When all the parameters related to the symbols and data quality
are set up, click Next.
In the 4th stage, you can work with your Strategy parameters thatshould be optimized. By default, all parameters are switched off
for optimization, and you need to enable only those options thatyou think should be optimized. For example, let’s enable the Lot
size parameter.

Enter the necessary values into the From, To, Step ﬁelds. You canleave the auto value in these ﬁelds, so that the algorithm will
select the parameters at its discretion.
In our case, we’ve entered the following parameters for the Lot
size optimization:
From = 0.1
To = 0.5
Step = 0.1

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If you need to reset the setting value to auto, delete the enteredsymbols by pressing the Backspace key and click on any empty
place of the window.
When all optimization settings are set up, click Next.

In the last stage, before optimization starts, specify your initial
Deposit(Balance)

and

deﬁne

the

conditions

when

the

optimization should stop immediately: Balance is smaller than(value) AND/OR Balance is bigger than (value).
Please note, the values in stop conditions should be different fromthe initial deposit.
When ready, click Start to begin the optimization process.
If you need to change some parameters, use the Previous button.

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A tip: if you hover the mouse cursor on the headers of stages, you
can see the parameters you’ve set up in the information popup.

During the testing process, you can see the chart with control
points appear and the progress bars for the current iteration andthe whole process. To see detailed information about theparticular point, hover the mouse cursor on it.

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You can use the Pause button if you need to pause theoptimization process for any reason.
If you want to change some settings during the test, click theReconﬁgure button on the window’s left top. The Optimization
summary window will be shown.

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Note: you can change only the parameters of the strategy andcommon settings without restarting the test. Changing thestrategy, symbol, and data will lead to a test restart, and all the
results will be lost.
When ready, click the “Resume optimization” button to continue
testing.
When the optimization is completed, you will see the report withgeneral statistics of trades for this testing and the best parameters
for getting the maximum proﬁt. You can also see the best settingsand proﬁt after the end of every iteration in the left top part of thewindow.
In our case, the best proﬁt is reached when the Lot size = 0.5.

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To open the program settings, please switch to the Settings tab.

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1.

Check for updates is used to check for program updates
manually.

2.

The “Default orders” button is handy if you often open
orders with the same parameters.

3.

Hotkeys.

4.

Sound allows you to customize Forex Tester sounds.

5.

Language allows selecting the language of the programuser interface.

6.

Switch to Old Design allows you to roll back to the oldinterface with panels.

By clicking the “Default orders” button, the Options window
appears with the following tabs:
Default orders.
Suppose your strategy requires opening the order with the Stoploss of 40 pips, Take proﬁt of 60 pips, and same lot size of 0.1 — you
can easily set it up!
1.

Click the “Add” button in the Default orders tab.
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Set the Lot size of 0.1 from the dropdown menu.

3.

Enter Stop loss of 40 manually or by using the dropdown
menu.

4.

Enter Take proﬁt of 40.

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5.

Add a comment if you need it.

6.

Click “OK”.

Now, you’ve added a default buy order. Whenever you need toopen your standard order with the values mentioned above, use
the CTRL+B hotkey.
Follow the same steps to set the default sell order, but instead, use
the CTRL+S hotkey to place it.

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Hotkeys.
Contains the hotkeys equivalents to all actions applicable in Forex
Tester. To change the existing hotkey combination or set one,double-click on its name and select a necessary shortcut from thedropdown menu.

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Time frames.
Allows you to add or delete default timeframes used for new
projects.

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You can add a custom timeframe by clicking the Edit Time
Frames buttonon the Main toolbar.

In the Edit Time Frames window, you can set this timeframes list
as default for your new projects by clicking the “Make default”
button.

You don’t need to create a custom timeframe for every new
project — just do it once, and save your new list of timeframes asdefault. When creating a new project, your custom timeframe will
also be shown among other default time frames.
Sounds.

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the .wav ﬁles that can be played when you start or stop the test,when an error or a successful action occurs.

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1.

To set your own audio ﬁle, click the “Open ﬁle dialog”
button.

2.

To delete the sound, use the “X” button.

3.

To listen to the existing sound, click the speaker icon.

Updates.
Allows setting a periodicity of updates fromserver
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update to the newest version.

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Other.
Has only one option — to “Set pause after start test”. When it’senabled, new bars will not appear after clicking the “Start Test”
button till you click “Pause”.

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You can also enable or disable any of the nine panels of the Forex
Tester terminal.
To do this, navigate to the Windows tab and click thecorresponding button.

1.

The “Symbols” panel displays all the currencies involvedin the project. You will see the bid and ask prices and the
spread value.

2.
The “Tick chart” shows the price changes within the3.

current bar.
The

“Data”

window

includesthefollowingbar

information:
The date and the time when the bar appeared.
The open, high, low and close prices
The tick volume.
The bar index.
To get this data, hover your mouse on the desired bar.
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displayed all the time, no matter if you hover on this bar
or not, tick the “lock index” checkbox and set the locked
bar index.
Note: the bars’ count begins from 0, and the calculation
goes from right to left.

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4.

The “Statistics” chart provides you with all the necessary
information on your strategy’s performance.

5.

The Open positions tab displays all opened orders.

6.

The Pending orders tab shows the pending orders only.

7.

The Account history tab shows all the closed orders.

8.

“Journal” provides you with the technical information on
indicators that have been loaded; orders placement,
modiﬁcation, and closing; test start, end, etc.
To clear the journal, right-click anywhere on the Journal
tab ﬁeld and then click the “Clear journal” popup button.

9.

The News tab provides you with detailed information
about the news calendar. Read
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10. The Notes tab allows creating any notes using the “Addnote” button and also displays a list of all created notes.

191You can also use the “Graphic elements ” button on the toolbar
and select the chart’s bar to which you want to add a new note.

The Edit note window will be shown.

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You can set up the note’s date and time, select one or all symbols
to link the note to, enter the title and text.
To quickly jump to the bar on the chart the note is linked to,
double-click on the note’s row.
To edit/delete a note, use the right mouse click (or the iconon the chart). You can also edit/delete the note by clicking thecorresponding buttons.
To hide notes icons on the chart, right-click anywhere on the chart
and uncheck the Show Notes.
Use the Search ﬁeld to ﬁnd the necessary note. Pay attention thatsearch works only through note’s headers (titles).

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The “Scripts” window contains all available scripts.
The script is the algorithm that will be run once by theuser’s demand.

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