Test your strategy on several currencies and time frames at the same time. In Forex Tester you can open any number and combination of charts of various pairs and time frames. All charts are synchronized.
Most traders use more than one strategy in their trading. All these share the same account: As long as money is invested in open positions of strategy A, it is not available for opening a trade in strategy B or C. This represents yet another factor where software that was not designed for backtesting and deep Forex trading analysis produces unrealistic test results. When your trading in your live account relies on those results, you`ll have unexpected losses and can only scratch your head why that is. Forex Tester in contrast can include multiple strategies for a truly realistic test in order for deep learning to trade Forex. All interactions between your strategies can now be simulated. Test results are a lot closer to what you will see in your real broker account. With Forex Tester, finding the most lucrative or stabile combination and priorities of your strategies can be achieved while staying in the save simulation environment.
Instead of spending months with a Demo Account, you can test your strategy within a few hours on historical data.
Let’s take a look at two ways to test your strategy:
Bill has a strategy which gives him several trading opportunities each day. As a typical trader he spent a couple of weeks on testing this strategy in a demo account. He has missed many trades because (a) he is not able to trade 24 hours a day and (b) he is human and makes mistakes sometimes. That is why his results are compromised and do not give the comprehensive picture of the Forex trading analysis. They can not tell him of how good the trading strategy really is because that would require that the strategy is performed without missed trades or late entries. Twenty or thirty randomly chosen trades are not enough to decide whether a strategy is trustworthy (remember that Bill –while going about his daily life– has missed many trades that qualified as setups according to his strategy). Needless to say that it is too early for him to go into the real market with this strategy. But Bill assumes that he knows everything he needs. Most likely Bill will lose a substantial part his deposit while finding out that his testing method produced a misleading result. That does not mean that he will understand why it didn`t work, so he will probably try again with the same method. Maybe you know people who have experienced that.
Conclusion: Testing in a demo account suggests reliability of your strategies that they don`t really have. For many traders this leads them to be confident in strategies that do not deserve this trust. But as they don`t know what the problem is (it did work in demo account testing), they continue to go through an emotional roller coaster ride with more losses than wins. A few months on a demo account are not enough for learning to trade Forex and find solid strategies.
John on the other hand has a strategy that allows him to enter the
market once or twice a week. He understands that one should wait for
trades that fit his strategy`s rules –instead of taking many trades
that fit his strategy criteria only 60-90%. John knows that becoming a
millionaire in 6 months is unrealistic as well as learning to trade
Forex
without putting any efforts, time or patience. He is not in a hurry.
John decides to test his strategy in Forex Tester. He tested it on
23 years of accurate data and concluded that the strategy is good. He did
not miss any trades as it often happens on a demo account. And John
could test his strategy on weekends when he had enough time. It
was
easy to test the same strategy with little changes, to find the most
profitable setting and get a feeling of which parameters have what kind
of impact on the results by virtue of the most efficient Forex trading
analysis software. His testing method produced a result that does not
only look reliable, it IS reliable. It is based on several
hundred
trading opportunities, on historical market data with no gaps and
following the strategy`s rules. This sounds like a lot of work, but
actually all this took him only 2-3 weekends and his live trading
results will most likely be a lot better than Bill`s.
After that
John opened the real account and has been trading successfully since
that
time.
Conclusion: Confidence based on false assumptions („my strategy that I test-traded on lunch-breaks on that demo account worked, so I can use it live now“) are expensive. Why would anyone choose that method? First of all, if you don`t know that the test results you get with broker software are not realistic, why would you look for anything else? In addition, many people think doing anything „properly“ takes a lot of time. In reality, the opposite is the case with Forex Tester vs. demo accounts: With Forex Tester you are a lot faster. Of course, using the broker software that you already have is obvious, many people do it. But most of those people lose money. Do not rely on second-class-results. Test your strategy on a long period of data and save time doing it. Your confidence will then be built on a solid foundation of facts.
Forex Tester gives you an opportunity to test faster than any other software does. Save time and get much more solid results than before. Broker terminals are good for live trading but not for testing. Our software is specialized for testing and fills the gap.
Many traders would love to practice on weekends. With Forex Tester you will be able to make progress 7 days a week. If you are very dedicated to develop your trading and understanding of the market, then you no longer have to settle with the market limitations: Make use of the days when you are free from every day routine and try make learning to trade Forex more efficient.
Speed up preparations for your regular testing by optimizing the interface to your individual needs with templates.
Forex Tester allows testing Automatic Strategies (Expert Advisors)
Here`s
some of the advantages:
In case you need your indicator/EA urgently or if you need to code them from scratch, our partners from 4xdev company can help you for a moderate fee. The 4xdev development team has a wide range of expertise: from developing products for Forex market (indicators/EAs/scripts/tools) to Machine Learning products and much more. You can contact them via support@4xdev.com.
It is possible to test combined strategies (Manual + Automatic) in Forex Tester. For example: You enter trades manually and exit automatically or vice versa. This gives you the opportunity to creatively test different ideas before spending time and efforts on programming fully automatic strategies.
People who use live trading software (the programs you get from your broker) for backtesting often complain, that strategies perform great in the testing stage, but do not work at as well in live trading. There are various ideas as to why that is. Forex Tester has many advanced features that make tests very realistic (simulating with multiple strategy combinations, floating spread, etc.). With these advantages, Forex Tester plays in a another league compared to other programs. If you suspect test results to be compromised by a dishonest broker, then you can be certain that the results in Forex Tester provide you with objective information on the quality of your strategies because Forex Tester is independent of your broker account.
Try Forex Tester for free* and get an idea of how many hours it will save you each week while doing all Forex trading analysis groundwork instead of you. When you multiply these hours by your hourly rate, then you will get an idea of the value. The improvements in your broker account are not even taken into account at this point. Just take a look at your trading history and compare it to the tests in Forex Trader. We are confident to say that no matter where you are at the moment, you will get a lot more out of Forex Tester than you pay for it. Maybe your broker won`t like that, but everybody else (you and us) will be happy with the results. :) *100% free with modest feature limitations or 14 days testing with no feature limitations if you purchase and use the 14-day money-back-guarantee
The scroll bar allows you to set the simulation speed.
You can for instance
set the speed to real time (as the real market). This will give you the most
realistic online trading experience when simulating manual trading. Or you can
speed up testing and pass a few years
of data in a
minute.
Test your strategies, pause and resume at any time you want. For example, you may start testing some strategy one day and finish it another day. Or you may pause your testing for the vacation period. Whatever your schedule is, with Forex Tester, you are in full control.
You can send your testing project to other Forex Tester owners. This is incredibly valuable if you have a trading-buddy or a mentor who can give you feedback. Otherwise you would have to make screenshots and explain things in an email.
You can upload new data to the project you are testing at the moment (without reloading it). Just wait until all the ticks are generated and continue your test.
You can move to the next bar on the chart by pressing “Space” key. This is useful if your strategy requires the current bar to be closed before the next action.
In case you need to test the strategy in a time frame, which is not included by default, you can easily create a template for this time frame by yourself (how about trading on 3-minute or 8-hours charts?)
You can change your testing mode at any time and combine both variants for a faster improvement of your trading skills.
Every trader probably makes his fair share of mistakes before learning to trade Forex like a professional. But isn’t it better to learn from your mistakes during backtesting, than during the live trading? Test, go back at any number of bars and go through again.
You can change:
Forex Tester is not limited to Forex. Whatever instrument you have data for (stocks, CFDs, you name it…), Forex Tester lets you simulate trading it. Here again, the total flexibility with the transaction costs comes in handy.
In Forex Tester, we have added more than 850+ various symbols. In this way, all the traders who prefer trading stocks, indexes, or cryptocurrencies can widen their horizons with backtesting. Enjoy a great possibility to test a wider variety of symbols in the new version!
Every single element of the ribbon interface (icon, button, menu, tooltip, etc.) is arranged in a way that makes Forex backtesting even more convenient and intuitive. Moreover, such design is a real treat for the eyes!
Anyway, if you’re not a fan of the ribbon interface type, there is always a possibility to go back to the earlier design with a couple of clicks.
16 languages are available for a better understanding of the Forex Tester’s interface. There are English, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Hungarian, Polish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Thai, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Turkish, Czech.
*New Forex Tester interface is translated into 4 languages
Now SL/TP levels can be set in several user friendly ways:
Keeping a diary with detailed explanations and screenshots for each trade is very valuable both for self-reflection and learning as well as for feedback or demonstrations with mentors, friends, students (if you are a teacher), and on forums.
Make Forex Tester analyze all your profitable and losing trades, income, drawdowns, average profit/loss, max drawdown, max profit/loss trade, the quantity of profit/loss trades in a row and many others stats that will be useful for your analysis.
The profit chart will help to see the biggest changes in balance, equity, margin and drawdowns. It is a great indicator for the strongest and weakest aspects of your trading.
Apply custom analysis of your trading history in Excel. This may allow you to understand strong and weak sides of your trading even better.
Forex Tester provides you with over 50 built-in indicators and oscillators that you can test your trading systems on.
In Forex Tester you can use trend, horizontal, vertical and poly lines; all Fibonacci instruments such as retracements, extensions, fans, arcs and time zones. We also provide a unique and easy method of marking the waves on charts.
Use trailing stops to limit losses due to retracements without closing profitable positions too early.
Forex Tester allows you to train your skills on Japanese candle sticks, bars, range bars, lines, and custom charts like Heikin Ashi. All the charts (regardless of their type) are synchronized and can be used simultaneously.
Have all the necessary information about the bars and indicators in one place
Windows can be arranged in many different ways. Place them horizontally and get all the necessary information at a glance; tile them in a cascading style and switch easily between them with a click of the mouse. If you have many monitors, you can adjust the size of the program and then place charts on any monitor.
Set a group of market or pending orders and activate them with one mouse-click or by pressing the hotkey. This feature can be useful if your trading is based on news events for example.
Whenever you have a question about Forex Tester or a problem with it, our support team will help you. Contact us via online chat or send your letter to our email (support@forextester.com). Many answers to common questions can also be found through our support platform and on the forum. Our main goal is to help you get as much out of Forex Tester as possible.
Historical news service is an undoubtedly useful feature for those traders who use fundamentals as an additional source of information in their forecasts. Its significance is based on the great impact the major economic and political events have on the market moves. We have launched a news service for those traders who are eager to find the reasons for such huge market moves and base their trading decisions accordingly.
When using our Historical news service, you can:
Easy Forex Builder (EFB) is a separate tool with the help of which it is possible to create expert advisors (EAs) even without coding skills. Thanks to this tool, you can create an expert advisor that will match your personal preferences. You can do it by using a simple drag’n’drop interface - just select the appropriate elements and get a coded expert advisor.
Risk management is the key to successful trading, and the Risk/Reward tool is one more advantage for you to keep your deposit safe.
Based on the well-known risk/reward ratio, this graphic tool shows the prospective profits you can get and the risk you must undertake right on the chart.
“Should I execute this order? What will happen with the balance if the market moves in my favor or against me?” – this tool will give you the answers.
Forex Tester allows you not only to backtest your trading ideas but also to learn Forex right in the software using interactive built-in courses!
Such an approach is the most effective since you can immediately practise the acquired knowledge. It provides the highest rate of information retention (75%) in comparison with other learning methods (lection – 5%, reading – 10%, discussion – 50%).
Moreover, you can start your Forex education from the lesson you are interested in. The Forex market basics are already in the software, and more difficult lessons by our partners and us will be added gradually.
The main goal of each trader is to find a good trading strategy that will bring high and stable profits. Our AI-based Strategy Optimizer makes this task easier since it helps to find the best strategy parameters in the shortest time possible!
It works quite simple. You only need to define a strategy and specify the parameters you want to optimize. The AI-based algorithm will create a list of all possible combinations and test a few of them to find the best setup. Why only a few? Because AI knows which combinations should be tested and which parameter sets won’t bring a better result, so they can be skipped to save your time.
You know that every second in the volatile market matters and orders should be executed in time. Otherwise, it may cost you money. We built a convenient trading panel into Forex Tester so that you can reduce the number of routine actions you perform and thereby speed up the entire trading process.
Here are just some of the actions you can perform with this tool:
Forex Tester is a software that simulates trading in the Forex market, so you can learn how to trade profitably, create, test and refine your strategy for manual and automatic trading.
Forex historical data is a must for back testing and trading. Forex data can be compared to fuel and software that uses this data is like an engine.
Quick and simple tool for traders to structure their trading ideas into the EAs and indicators. EFB helps traders save time and money. Get trade-ready strategies and indicators right away with NO coding skills required!
4xdev company focuses on the development of various Forex tools (e.g., indicators, EAs, scripts, alerts) and conversion of ones into the needed format.
Software to copy trades between accounts. Has plenty of features such as Lot/Risk Management, Filtering trades and Reverse Trading, Lifetime Support.
Software that opens trades in a fraction of a second with a built-in risk management calculator. Set predefined Stop Loss & Take Profit values for instant entries.
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