lookitsben
06 Jun 2023, 11:10

RE:

firemyst said:

When you back test do you take into account spreads and commission costs?

I thought these were included by default/built into the backtesting tool?

lookitsben
06 Jun 2023, 11:09

RE:

PanagiotisChar said:

Hi lookitsben,

m1 data should only be used for strategies that are executed on each bar. For strategies that do stuff in OnTick or use pending orders, stop losses and take profits, m1 bars will be from slightly to completely inaccurate.

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Makes sense! Very helpful, thank you!!

lookitsben
18 May 2023, 14:39

RE:

PanagiotisCharalampous said:

Hi Lisa,

At the moment, they are not taken into consideration but the feature is in our backlog.

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Hi,

Has this feature now been released? If so, where can I see it in the backtest results please?

Thanks!

Ben

lookitsben
15 May 2023, 12:21

Thanks for the reply! Good to know what I'm up against, for sure!

Have you seen anything like this done before? Or anything you might be able to share that might point me in the right direction for achieving something like this?

Any and all thoughts appreciated!

Thanks,

Ben

lookitsben
14 May 2023, 12:57

Thanks so much for the detailed replies! :)

Did you see much improvement when you implemented this with yours?

My hesitancy is that I'm concerned that the performance is only based on CPU, so it might not see that much improvement, and since my GPU isn't connected right now, I'd have to get it set up first

lookitsben
14 May 2023, 10:29

Very interesting, thank you!!

Have you tried it out? I would be really interested to hear if you saw much improvement from implementing this!

Also, does this mean it only work with Nvidia Graphics cards? Mine is AMD.

Thanks again!

lookitsben
09 May 2023, 12:28

RE:

Thanks for the additional detail! Doesn't this make back testing very complicated and potentially not comparable to real trading?

For instance, how do we know what leverage is being represented in the backtest (in the Bitcoin example: 5X or 500X), and I assume that the margin usage calculation is dependent on the leverage too?

As someone quite new to this, hopefully I've missed something :) would be great to hear your thoughts!

lookitsben
08 May 2023, 11:50

RE:

Hi, thanks for your reply, the screenshot shows that my leverage is 500X on Bitcoin, but on the IC Markets website, it says that the cTrader in combination with IC Markets only offers 5X leverage.

Is it true that they only offer 5X for crypto? And if so, am I able to manually adjust the leverage to ensure more accurate backtesting?

Thanks!

Ben

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