New article MQL5 Cookbook: Writing the History of Deals to a File and Creating Balance Charts for Each Symbol in Excel has been published:
When communicating in various forums, I often used examples of my test
results displayed as screenshots of Microsoft Excel charts. I have many
times been asked to explain how such charts can be created. Excel offers
ample features for creating charts and there are lots of books on that
subject. To find the required information in a book, one may have to
read it all. Now finally, I have some time to explain it all in this
article.
So today I will show you a simple method of how you can get balance
charts for all the symbols along with the cumulative result of a
multi-currency Expert Advisor on a single Excel diagram with just a
couple of clicks. To reconstruct the example, we will take the
multi-currency Expert Advisor from the previous article.
It will be enhanced with a function that will write the history of
deals and balance curves for all symbols to a .csv file upon completion
of the test. Moreover, we will add another column to the report to show
drawdowns from all local maxima.
Let's create an Excel book set up so as to be able to connect the
data file. The book can be opened all the time, so it will not need to
be closed before running another test. Upon completion of the test, you
will only need to refresh the data by pressing a certain key to be able
to see the changes in the report and on the chart.
Author: Anatoli Kazharski