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| <p><b>Free tool: test an Expert on the same real ticks with a different calendar and price level</b></p>
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| A perfect backtest proves nothing if the Expert only knows the past it was tested on.
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| Some Experts carry a memory of that history: a list of dates, a table of times, hard-coded price levels.
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| On the original data they look brilliant. Live, there is no list for the future.
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| I built Tick Forge to check for that. It makes a custom symbol from your own broker's history,
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| with every timestamp shifted and every price passed through a function you type
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| (p*2, p*0.5, p0*p0/p, a time offset in hours or days).
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| You then test the Expert in the normal Strategy Tester.
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| <p><b>What it does</b></p>
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| <li>Real broker ticks, same order, same spreads. Only the date and the price level change.</li>
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| <li>Audit set in one click: control, +7, +14, +28 days, prices x0.5, x2, mirrored. It asks first and can delete the set again.</li>
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| <li>Free runner script in the repo that runs your Expert across the set and writes a comparison report.</li>
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| <li>Free, MIT licence, no DLL, no internet, never trades.</li>
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| <p><b>What it does not do</b></p>
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| <li>It is not a Monte Carlo of your trade list and it does not invent random price paths.</li>
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| <li>It cannot start the Strategy Tester from inside MetaTrader (MQL5 does not allow it), hence the separate script.</li>
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| <li>A pass does not prove an Expert is safe or profitable. A fail is a question, not a verdict:
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| some honest Experts depend on sessions or weekdays.</li>
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| Quick example: a 7-day shift keeps every weekday and time of day, only the date changes.
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| An Expert driven by price and time of day trades much as before.
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| An Expert that relies on a list of dates loses its trades.
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| Product: [PRODUCT_URL]<br>
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| How-to article with the tests and an example: [ARTICLE_URL]<br>
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| Source: https://forge.mql5.io/joshuadunnink/Tick_Forge
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| I would like feedback. Which transformations would you add? Which Experts did you find depended on dates or price levels?
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