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Metatrader 5 Strategy Tester

The beta version of the Metatrader 5 Strategy Tester (Metatester 5) was released a few months ago. It is a integral part of the new Metatrader 5 trading terminal and like in the old version of Metatrader it is used to optimise and test MQL5 expert advisors. Metatester 5 is the last component of MetaTrader 5 tools that is needed in the process of efficient development of MQL5 Expert Advisors. The new tester is still in development and the final version will be released end this year. One of the new features of Metatester 5 is the possibility to use agents (individual calculation frameworks) to highly increase the speed of trading strategies calculation and optimization. Each agent represent one logical cpu core, so for example, if you have a dual-core cpu, you will have 2 agents. The agents can also be installed on remote computers in a local network or on the Internet. A big advantage of this is that you can use endless cpu power like in the popular grid computing projects called Fol...