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Dennis1 said:
firemyst said:
Why haven't you run your bot locally and do a “back test” for the dates Dec 16th - 20th to see if anything happens that you can pin point?

Run your backtest against tick data and see what happens.
Of course I have run the backtest over those days. It shows that bot didn't open any trades since none of the entry criteria have been met. Yet on live account it went wild and made 1166 trades in 40mins!
What protection do you have built into your bot? For instance:
do you check spreads before you bot opens a position?
do you have anything that checks for x-number of losing trades and to stop your bot if it reaches that threshold?
do you have anything that checks for x-number of losing pips and to stop your bot if it passes that threshold?

While this doesn't help you to resolve what happened, these are a few suggestions to build safety-nets into your algos as it doesn't seem like you have any to prevent your bot from blowing an account again .
As a programmer you need to consider such things when programming algorithms for the unpredictable markets, regardless of how sound your strategy may be.
I don’t think it has anything to do with unpredictable markets (everything was stable that day and malicious trades are <2pips each). and the checks you’ve mentioned wouldn’t help since it ignored most of my instructions anyway and would’ve ignored them as well. It’s about this trading platform, people who’ve created it and reports of regular live account swipes like happened with mine. I was lucky to have a small amount there but others lost much larger amounts through similar circumstances

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Dennis1
22 Jan 2025, 12:44

RE: Ctrader bot ignores code and blown my account!

firemyst said:

Why haven't you run your bot locally and do a “back test” for the dates Dec 16th - 20th to see if anything happens that you can pin point?

Run your backtest against tick data and see what happens.

Of course I have run the backtest over those days. It shows that bot didn't open any trades since none of the entry criteria have been met. Yet on live account it went wild and made 1166 trades in 40mins!

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Dennis1
17 Apr 2024, 05:30 ( Updated at: 17 Apr 2024, 05:42 )

RE: Backtesting tab missing

PanagiotisCharalampous said:

Hi there,
Backtesting is not available at the moment. It will be added in an upcoming update.
Best regards,
Panagiotis

Sounds good. What‘s the timing for the update?

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