This is just a summary of some of the challenges I have passed using EA Studio for those interested. Feel free to ask any questions and I will be happy to answer as best I can 🙂
I only ever take 100k challenges these days as with time limit removed and sensible risk management the initial investment is much more safe than it used to be with time limits (Thankfully those prop firm days are over).
Watch Sam’s videos on EA Trading Academy’s YouTube channel. There Sam shows the whole process and also provides the EA’s he used to pass the challenges. Usually, he is using EA Studio to generate strategies and download EA’s.
Mt5 will download the data when back testing and so you will be able to have a more than adequate amount of data. I would recommend back testing with full tick data base don real ticks and check that the % of real ticks quality is at least about 90%. If not then I would recommend importing quality tick data or back testing on a broker that has better quality data (Such as darwinex or dukascopy for example). For M5 and M15 5 years of data is ample in my opinion