Hey mate,
I did not have promising results when setting a direction.
That option is suitable for assets like Bitcoin, so when the market is clearly going up, we can trade EAs that are Only long.
But for the Forex, I would stick to EAs that trade both directions.
Regarding the backtest, you have missed something….can you attach screenshots from a strategy on EA Studio and a backtest on Metatrader with the same strategy.
I want to see the MT before you run the backtest, how you set it up.