Weekends: Difference in chart and visual tester
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 1:30 pm
"Hi Szabolcs,
We've had a chance to look at this further at the current behaviour is actually by design at the moment. That is, the actual testing data begins on Sunday March 14th 2010 which is when the market opens, hence the bar on the 14th. On the display chart, however, these bars are filtered out because they are being used for display purposes only. We could potentially change the export such that you will see the 14th's bar in the "New->Chart" option in MT4 so it matches what you see in the Strategy Tester. This would obviously not affect your back-test results.
At the moment, however, it doesn't make sense to eliminate that bar altogether since trading begins on Sundays at 9PM GMT.
If you have any further input on this, please let us know.
Thanks."
"Dear Tickstory,
Thank you for your reply. The problem is not only that 14th candle. But the candles on Sundays.
The robot examines candles, and if it examines candles which are only in the chart due to 'wrong' timezone settings, then it is analyzing false data and will not make good decisions. Imagine in a daily timeframe, this expert/robot is a good working robot which generates profit but now it cant be profitable, because it is analyzing sunday 2 hours candles and thinks it is a whole day.
So if you could eliminiate not only the 14th candles but on all sundays would be the best. I have tried the setting 'include weekends' but with that settings, the display chart also shows the little movements. So please, the best would be if on the visual chart sundays could be filtered out. The attachments contain the Tickstory version number, the settings I did, and the error (difference) on the charts, which is not the only one I just pointed this one out, but there is more.
Regards and thank you
Szabolcs
We've had a chance to look at this further at the current behaviour is actually by design at the moment. That is, the actual testing data begins on Sunday March 14th 2010 which is when the market opens, hence the bar on the 14th. On the display chart, however, these bars are filtered out because they are being used for display purposes only. We could potentially change the export such that you will see the 14th's bar in the "New->Chart" option in MT4 so it matches what you see in the Strategy Tester. This would obviously not affect your back-test results.
At the moment, however, it doesn't make sense to eliminate that bar altogether since trading begins on Sundays at 9PM GMT.
If you have any further input on this, please let us know.
Thanks."
"Dear Tickstory,
Thank you for your reply. The problem is not only that 14th candle. But the candles on Sundays.
The robot examines candles, and if it examines candles which are only in the chart due to 'wrong' timezone settings, then it is analyzing false data and will not make good decisions. Imagine in a daily timeframe, this expert/robot is a good working robot which generates profit but now it cant be profitable, because it is analyzing sunday 2 hours candles and thinks it is a whole day.
So if you could eliminiate not only the 14th candles but on all sundays would be the best. I have tried the setting 'include weekends' but with that settings, the display chart also shows the little movements. So please, the best would be if on the visual chart sundays could be filtered out. The attachments contain the Tickstory version number, the settings I did, and the error (difference) on the charts, which is not the only one I just pointed this one out, but there is more.
Regards and thank you
Szabolcs