Using Preset File with Expert Advisors
article written by Boem.
A preset file is a file that contains all the settings used or to be used with an expert advisor. It is very useful to have preset files since they allow us to safeguard our settings and also to be able to change various settings globally in 1 quick by loading different presets we may have saved. So we use preset files (files with an extension .set) to save and restore specific settings for an expert advisor.
You can access these files in the “Presets” folder which is in your “experts” folder.
To access your ea settings (once the ea is up on a chart), you can right click on a chart where you have your expert advisor, click on Expert Advisors and then on ‘Properties’, or simply click on your chart and press F7. You will have access to the expert settings (2nd tab page => Inputs).
On this tab page where you can change your expert’s parameters, you have 2 buttons on the right corner.
Load is used to ‘import’ the settings saved in a preset file, Save is to ‘export’ the current settings and save them to a file so you can ‘Load’ them again at any time. So preset files are not only a way to safeguard some settings you like for an expert, and retrieve them later, but also the quickest way to change settings on multiple charts / pairs since you can load the same or different preset file on each chart.