Backtesting irregularities
- Live is not open prices only. Modify your EA to only check the first tick of a new bar and eliminate any possible problem.
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Hi All,
I am running a simple EA that executes trades whenever the close price of the current bar is near a certain level. So for example, if the price is 1.5000, and I have a 4 point boundary, the model will trade when the price is between 1.4996 and 1.5004. I m running the EA using open prices only. When reviewing trades on visual mode, there are instances where the price closes on the boundary and executes a trade, and there are other instances where it closes at the same price and does not do a trade. So I have 2 questions:
1. Are there any known issues with visual mode, or with using the open prices only option? I have selected this option as I only want to evaluate and trade every 5 minutes (I am running the EA on M5 data)
2 Should the trades on visual mode exactly match those seen in the Journal or the results tab?