For IMG Pro members. What IMG Optimizer does, how to run a search and how to read what it finds.
Open IMG OptimizerYou need your IMG Pro access code and a TradingView chart with IMG Pro on it.
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IMG Optimizer tests many IMG Pro setting combinations on a market’s past prices (a backtest). Every dot is one test. The best become ready-made settings.
Sign in with your IMG Pro access code. Search for a market, or tap one of the suggestions. Members may have found settings already, so look first.
TAPExplore
On the market page, tap START A FRESH SEARCH. Style sets which chart timeframes are tested. Goal picks the trade-off between return and drop.
TAPSTART A FRESH SEARCH
Search depth is how many settings it tries for each timeframe pair: 64 is quick, 512 takes about eight times longer. Minimum completed trades: 10 to 200.
TAPShow expert options
It runs on the server and takes hours. Close the page if you like. Keep it open and tap Notify me when done for a browser alert.
TAPStart search
Return is the total gain over the tested dates. Biggest drop is the worst fall from a peak. These are past results, not a forecast.
TAPView the best settings
Look at the curve: steady settings climb in many small steps; a single jump may be one lucky trade. Check Trades, compare Long-term with Recent.
TAPLong-termRecent
Open any settings and tap Refine for me. IMG Optimizer searches nearby settings on the last 3 or 6 months. Compare, then choose.
TAPRefine for meStart recent update
In Put these on your chart, choose TradingView and work down the four steps. Then tap Mark as on my chart.
TAPMark as on my chart
Every number is how settings behaved on past prices. It can’t promise how they’ll do next.
The default minimum, plus a positive return and results that hold up across separate stretches of history.
If the same search finished recently, you see its settings at once. If it is running now, you can follow it.