I began to dabble into some expert advisor (EA) programming recently. Finally! My IT training has come into good use! It is really interesting actually. As long as I can program a strategy into an EA, I can backtest it automatically with results over the last few years. All it takes is a click of a button!

My very first project was to program a simple strategy that I learned from a course into an EA. Here was the results when backtested:

The graph shows the demo account starting with $10,000 and closing at around $120. There is no money management built in and the EA is based on the Long strategy only.

I got a “brainstorm” one day and re-programmed the EA to do the exact opposite. Well, the logic is, if I could get the EA to do the exact opposite, I should be able to inverse the account balance graph, isn’t it?

Here is the outcome:

Nope. Your eyes are perfectly fine. The account balance graphs looked similar! How can that be? Stay tuned for my next post!

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