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IBFX - Live vs. Demo Results

This is driving me crazy. I spent a lot of time demo'ing EAs on IBFX before going live. Now the results are significantly different. Same EA. Same settings. Any ideas? Here's a few a several examples. For the period 12/4/06 to 1/5/07: GBP M60: Live +615 pips Demo +192 pips GBP M30: Live +610 pips

Best Trading Times

FWIW, I did some analysis on best times to trade by day of the week and by hour. I've attached the graphs. I analyzed all the way back to 2004, but found the data to be similar, and with so many data points more recent behavioral changes in the market would be dampened out. Hence, the focus on 2006

Multiple Independent Demo's In Same Instance

Is there any way to have multiple Demo Accounts from a broker (e.g. FXDD) where these charts go to that Demo Account and those charts go to that Demo Account? I have 2 Demo accounts, but when I flip over, all the charts go with it and I can't isolate the results. I'm wanting to test multiple EAs and

Acct History - Comment - How to Add

I've tried to look this up and can't find it. My Alpari Terminal/Account History has a Comment field in the grid, but my FXDD doesn't. How can I get my FXDD to display this? Thanks

Simple Trendline Help

Could someone help me understand how to code a simple trendline. If I wanted to create a trendline that goes from the high at 0800 to the high at 0900 and extend it out for the rest of the day as it unfolds, what would the code look like? Also, if I wanted to later check if I was above or below that