Separating Expert Advisor Performance with Magic Number Trade Logs
Summary
The document describes a way to distinguish results when multiple Expert Advisors (EAs) and manual trades share one account. An account-level equity curve combines their activity, making it hard to see which systems generated gains, stopped trading, or account for most of the outcome. It introduces a magic-number inventory and trade logging approach to attribute activity to individual sources.
The document notes that enabling CSV export writes the same table to a file for spreadsheet analysis. It also flags two implementation details that affect the reported figures and provides a section on interpreting the table, but the supplied text omits those explanations and the inventory’s actual fields. As a result, it supports the general case for trade-level attribution but does not provide enough detail to assess its calculations, classification rules, or limitations beyond the account-level aggregation problem.
Key ideas
- Account-level performance combines all activity and obscures each system’s contribution.
- Magic numbers can help classify trades by Expert Advisor or other source.
- A trade log can reveal systems that stopped trading or dominate overall results.
- CSV export makes the inventory table available for spreadsheet analysis.
- The supplied text does not explain the inventory fields or calculation details.
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