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Filtering Strategy Tester Trades for Visual Review

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Summary

This indicator is a visual aid for reviewing trades produced by a strategy tester. It reads graphical objects created by the tester and changes which objects are displayed, while retaining their names and coordinates. Because it works with those existing objects, the described workflow does not require editing the Expert Advisor that generated the test results. Order navigation remains available.

Four controls filter the display by buy trades, sell trades, winners, and losers, and the controls can be combined. Two additional controls show entry and exit points. These features can make it easier to inspect where a strategy entered and exited and to compare winning and losing trades. The document describes interface behavior rather than an analytical method for measuring performance: it provides no statistics, validation procedure, or evidence that visual review improves results. Its usefulness depends on the strategy tester having created the graphical objects to read.

Key ideas

  • The indicator reads graphical objects generated by a strategy tester for visual review.
  • It can filter displayed trades by buy or sell direction and by winning or losing outcome.
  • The four trade filters can be combined.
  • Separate controls show trade entry and exit points.
  • The tool describes a display workflow and supplies no quantitative performance analysis.

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BacktestingTechnical indicators

This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.