MT4 Backtesting - Modelling Quality Advise

Harry 2015.11.04 21:00

Hi everyone.

I am testing my EA and, with my broker's history quotes, I get a quality of about 57% on XAUUSD H1.

Surfing the net I have discovered a program called Tickstory that seems good to achieve a 99% modelling quality.

I have two questions:

My EA trades only on new bars, so I actually should not need every tick, with 99% of accuracy could it change so much?
Has everyone tried Tickstory and it is worth the price? Could anyone suggest me another (maybe cheaper) software with the same features?

Thank you very much!

myname 2015.11.05 21:20 #1

When you use open prices does not matter if you use tick data or not. Useless in that case

whisperer 2015.11.09 13:52 #2

No difference when open prices used

techmac 2015.11.26 09:55 #3

What if he does not use open price and the test is on open?

Pascal 2015.11.30 08:51 #4

techmac:
What if he does not use open price and the test is on open?

It is the same as signal on bar close

Mladen Rakic 2015.12.01 07:39 #5

PascalD:
It is the same as signal on bar close

More or less, yes

But if the code uses current bar values (like high, low and close, there can be a big deviation

Pascal 2015.12.01 16:57 #6

mladen:

More or less, yes

But if the code uses current bar values (like high, low and close, there can be a big deviation

Yep, I see. Thanks

Mladen Rakic 2015.12.02 07:23 #7

PascalD:
Yep, I see. Thanks

It all depends on the EA and what prices it is using. So there is no general answer

whisperer 2015.12.12 06:18 #8

Anything changed with the new builds?

myname 2015.12.31 12:29 #9

whisperer:
Anything changed with the new builds?

Only mtf back tests changed

morro 2016.01.06 04:43 #10

nbtrading:
Only mtf back tests changed

How did they change it?

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