What are the advantages of Forex Tester compared to trading platforms tester?

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You can test manual trading strategies in a fast and easy way. With Forex Tester you can trade on historical data like you trade on your terminal in real time. This is very important even if you plan to develop an automatic trading system. For example, you may have an idea and want to test this idea before you spend time on implementing it in code.
You can test combined strategies (Manual + Automatic) in Forex Tester. For example, you enter trades manually and exit automatically.
You can see how exactly your strategy trades in real time. In terminal you can only open a chart after a test is finished. In FT you can open many charts with different timeframes, apply indicators, draw graphical objects, etc.
In terminal you cannot test your strategy on real tick data with floating spread; in FT you can.
In Forex Tester you can test multicurrency and multi-timeframe EAs.
You can adjust strategy parameters during the test based on different factors (indicator, market conditions and so on).
You can pause testing and analyze the market situation. Or you can even “rewind” the time and “play” a moment once again.
You can test more than 1 expert adviser at the same time.
You can define your spread and swaps for any currency pair in Forex Tester.
When you develop your EA with the help of FT API you can use the debugger. This is very important for programmers and speeds up the development.

Please read the full list of Forex Tester over trading platforms advatages on this page.

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