As requested by DesertEagle last week, I have done a test on the Desert 615 Combo (see his spreadsheet above).
Method: FMT 4.3 at 6:15 UK only. Tick data @99%, From Jan 2010 to 29 Apr 2011
No trading on the following dates: 1 - 8 Jan 2010, 20 Dec 2010 to 7 Jan 2011.
Tests reset for time changes on 29 Mar and 1 Nov 2010 and 28 Mar 2011
With different settings for longs and shorts, this test was more complicated. I found a utility that improves the reporting aspect as well as data merges, and used it for this test. This will hopefully save me some steps in the future. However, not this time.....
The attached file gives the test screens and results in htm format, per MT4. Also, I'm showing a pic of the Report Manager's output, entitled "Merged.....". The advantage of this over my usual spreadsheets is that we have an MT4-type report on the total, merged results, which is very nice. But for this occasion, due to the separate reports for longs and shorts, we don't know exactly when or how or why the performance dip occurred in the chart to the right of centre, over a series of about 35 trades. (The Report Manager is showing the trades, but it does not allow me to copy them).
I will have a go at the spreadsheet again and see if I can merge them that way.
It will be a good way to double check on the ReportManager's accuracy also.
p.s. thanks for the words scoot