Can I Use Strategy Analyzer? How To Back Test?
How to back-test the Predator — historical trades, Strategy Analyzer rules, and Market Replay.
Historical back testing is limited and will never provide accurate results on any strategy. It's always best to back test your strategy on Market Replay or live on a sim for the most accurate representation. However, historical testing provides a quick overview to determine whether to keep testing with a more accurate method.
- Load Predator X on a chart and configure your entry and filter conditions.
- Activate 'Show Historical Trades' under 01. Controls in the Predator Properties.
- It is recommended to activate High Fill Resolution when back testing (especially with NinZaRenko style bar types).
Turn OFF 'Show Historical Trades' and set order fill resolution back to Standard whenever trading live or using Market Replay.
Only built-in Auto Entries can use Strategy Analyzer — Custom Signals are limited to historical trades on the chart only!
When using Strategy Analyzer:
- stick to 'Backtest' mode (the Optimizer can create hundreds of thousands of iterations causing issues)
- select 'Show Historical Trades' from 01. Controls
- Make sure you are connected to LIVE data
- select the instrument, bar type/time/size, and date range you want to back test
If you don't see trades:
- ensure something is selected in Auto Entries
- check that time/additional filters aren't preventing trades (remove temporarily to test)
- check indicator filters aren't preventing trades (03. Indicators)
- start a fresh template and load one thing at a time to understand how each function may affect your strategy
The Predator X is an Order Entry and Management tool, having many options doesn't mean you should use them all at once. It is meants to be confiqured many different ways, test what works best for yiou!
The recommended method is Market Replay.
Although it's slower than a historical back test, it is often a much more accurate representation of how your strategy will actually perform, and it lets you see how the strategy would actually take trades in a live setting so you can confirm everything behaves as it should.