Make profit and commission calculation of backtesting accurate

Created at 09 Sep 2014, 10:59
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Make profit and commission calculation of backtesting accurate
09 Sep 2014, 10:59

In reference to my question in this post. /forum/calgo-support/3469

All profit and commission calculations in cAlgo's backtesting are inacccurate. It uses the rate at the time at the backtesting is run, not the time the trade was simulated for.

For example, if the rate was 30% different between the trade time and the backtest time then both the profit and commission will be 30% wrong. How can we trust cAlgo's results?

Everyone please vote for this to be fixed :) Thanks Spotware :)

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Replies

acrigney
02 Jul 2018, 07:11

Any update on this guys?

@acrigney

ctidmarkowski
04 Sep 2022, 19:15

5 years have passed.... any updates?

I thought cTrader was a modern platform, much more focused on automation and state of the art solutions. Without a realistic result instead of a proxy, backtesting is useless

@ctidmarkowski

ME-Pepper
06 Oct 2022, 14:42

RE:

For a state of the art solution, also the Swaps should be evaluated accordingly. At the moment they are completely ignored :-(

 

@ME-Pepper
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