Strategy tester

[Ingvar Engelbrecht]

Using Open prices

It says.

"Only for EA:s that explicity open bars"

What does that mean? How is it done?

[Stuart Browne]

Ingvar Engelbrecht:

Using Open prices

It says.

"Only for EA:s that explicity open bars"

What does that mean? How is it done?

It means it's only useful if the EA uses only the open price of a bar. If it trades within the bar then you won't get accurate information

[Ingvar Engelbrecht]

So if I only use the new bar to identify that a new bar has been formed and then only use data from the last closed bar I am OK?

[Stuart Browne]

Ingvar Engelbrecht:
So if I only use the new bar to identify that a new bar has been formed and then only use data from the last closed bar I am OK?

Only if the data you use from the closed bar is the open price