I have a strategy that I am backtesting. When I backtest it, I get a chart with the prices and the entry and exit signals in it, but that's it. If I manually apply a template to the chart to add in the indicators I want to see it works, but once I run another backtest the indicators are gone again. Is there a way that I can have my indicators on the backtesting charts already loaded after the test is complete? Can I apply a template chart somehow in the strategy code? I don't want to duplicate all of the indicator painting code in my strategy.

BTW, I finally got my first profitable strategy up and running last night! +$13K on the Sept ES with 10 contracts 6/1 to 6/30, 43% winning trades. I was up until 5am tweaking it and the < 50% success ratio worried me. Sure enough, the next day I ran it for the June ES for the 3 months previous and it failed miserably, too many trades entering at the very end of a trend move. Now I'm tired and (virtually) broke for the rest of the day. Oh well!

I'm really not looking for any holy grail indicator/system, I just want to automate the decision-making process I go through when I trade myself, automate some of my discretionary thinking, detecting price and volume breakouts, recognizing S/R levels, filtering trades against other time-frames, etc. as well as some high probability contrarian strategies (after large, rapids moves, scalp the short-term reversal)

Once I get some more consistent results I'll post up my progress.

shodson 

I have a strategy that I am backtesting. When I backtest it, I get a chart with the prices and the entry and exit signals in it, but that's it. If I manually apply a template to the chart to add in the indicators I want to see it works, but once I run another backtest the indicators are gone again. Is there a way that I can have my indicators on the backtesting charts already loaded after the test is complete? Can I apply a template chart somehow in the strategy code? I don't want to duplicate all of the indicator painting code in my strategy.

Two ways:
1) Don't use the Chart feature within Strategy Analyzer, instead apply the strategy to a normal chart (File - New Chart), right-click, Strategy, add.

or, 2) Add the lines in the #initialize section of your strategy to Add() the indicators. Read up on NT's on-line help about Add(), but basically it's:

 

Code

Add(Indicator(var1, var2));

Mike

Another way to do it is to use the wizard to create the Add() code for you.

Just start a new strategy with the wizard, skip to the conditions screen, and build a condition with the indicator you're interested in. There's an option in the indicator settings called "Plot on chart" - set this to true. Then all you need to do is click on the View Code button and copy/past the code from the Initialize section into your custom strategy and then cancel out of the wizard.

Good luck, and may your next strategy be a profitable one!