Configuring Strategy Parameters and Interactive Controls in FMZ

Summary

This platform guide explains how to configure strategy inputs and runtime interaction controls. It covers numeric, Boolean, string, dropdown, and encrypted-string parameters, along with required versus optional values, grouping, and filters that show or hide inputs based on other parameter values. The article also describes added control types such as date and time pickers, sliders, text areas, color selectors, and segmented choices, and explains what values they provide to a strategy.

For runtime controls, it describes how values or button presses become messages that a strategy can receive. The examples show logging parameter types and reading interaction messages, and the guide notes that interaction controls require a live deployment for testing rather than a backtest. Its focus is platform configuration and strategy usability, not trading logic or performance. The final section also mentions controls for choosing a currency or trading pair, but supplies no evidence about how these interface features affect trading results.

Key ideas

• Required parameters can prevent a strategy from running until a value is supplied.
• Numeric and string parameters can use different controls, including time selectors, sliders, text areas, and color selectors.
• Dropdowns can support multiple selections and return either indices or values bound to the selected options.
• Groups and filters organize parameters and conditionally show them based on other parameter values.
• Interaction controls send user input or button events to a running strategy, and the guide says they cannot be tested in backtests.

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