BTCUSD spread in mt4 strategy tester not working

Hello,

So I am trying to test a strategy for BTC in my mt4. I have downloaded all the tick date to get a 99%modeling quality. And the EA is working as intended.

The only problem is that the spread is not being taken into account. I will explain with images.


The spread for BTCUSD is 17$ or 1700 points in my broker.

Even If I put 1700 points in the spread option in the strategy tester, or I choose current ( which should be 1700 )- The EA trades as if there is no or minimal spread as you can see from the image of the trades.


The result is showing the trading happens with like no spread.

So any solutions or suggestions to to fix this problem? - It only happens on BTC- all other forex currencies are good

Thanks .

Hi,

Have you had a look in the tester journal at the start of a test run. This should show the spread it's working with. If you find this is zero even when you have specified a larger spread it would suggest there is some internal limit to the spread value in the tester. This would require a fix to MT4.

Also, have you checked the spec for the instrument in the symbol properties? It could be that it's not been set up correctly by your broker (probably OK on live but maybe not on demo servers I've found).

Attached script will print out chosen symbol props to the experts tab.

Regards Paul.

Thanks for the answer Pah.

But I can't seem to find the spread info on the journal. (mode 18 is the spread- but nothing gets printed- Am I missing something?)



Symbol properties looks fine as well.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. The attachment is a script which you store in the scripts folder and drop onto any chart. It will print out selected values for all symbols in your market watch window to the experts tab of the terminal.

In testing, with your EA loaded up, at the start of the run you should see something like this:





Regards, Paul.

Just for info. I ran an EA on Bitcoin which seems to work with the correct values displayed.

I notice on your tester screenshot that trades are opened and immediately closed at s/l or t/p. This suggests that your maybe specifying the take profit or stop loss incorrectly for bitcoin.

Sorry but don't have much experience with bitcoin generally, you'll have to look at that side of it for yourself. e.g I don't get much sense out of the EA I tried until my TP or SL are specified with large numbers like 50000.00 for TP. Possibly your EA is not handling pip/point values correctly...

Good luck.