Test a strategy in Forge

What you need

1. An Oathra account. Creating one is free.
2. Price history for one symbol, exported from MetaTrader. Oathra ships no sample prices. Bring your price history
3. A first test on your own price history needs storage, and the free plan includes none. Storage starts at 40 credits a month. Credit packs are coming soon.
4. Credits for the data check and the test. Both are charged by the minute, and Forge shows the cost of a test before it starts. A standard test uses about 13 credits an hour.
5. The numbers of a test are on both plans. The verdict is on the paid plan, $29 a month.

Open the Tester. It has a Build tab for one configuration, and Queue and History tabs for runs already sent.

Fill the configuration#

The Build tab lists its sections down the left, and any of them can be opened at any time.

1. Instrument & data picks what is tested, on which data and over which period.
2. Parameters lists the strategy's settings and decides, for each one, whether it is one value or a range.
3. Costs holds commission, spread, financing and conversion.
4. Risk & capital holds the starting balance, how a position is sized and the limits on exposure.
5. Orders and Execution decide how an entry reaches the market and how a fill is priced.
6. Method and Gates show the checks the run will apply.
7. Review & run shows everything the run is, in one place.

The panel on the right shows what the run will cost before it starts.

Run it#

Press Run test in Review & run. The run goes to the Queue tab while it waits and while it runs, and to History when it has finished. Its result is on the run page, listed under Runs.