Different results when connected / disconnected
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 12:31 pm
Hi Everyone,
Just as a bit of a background, I have struggled to match the performance of live trading with backtest results, but I am positive that these results will improve having put in the correct settings for GER30 and UK100 in the tick story. I modified my settings file by comparing other symbols. The second thing I'm positive about is connecting to a live account rather than a demo account as a demo account seems to be more in the customers advantage.
One thing I noticed early on is that an optimiser on UK100 didn't match an individual test when right clicking and setting parameters. I still need to do more checking, but my main question is, running an optimiser whilst connected to your broker yields different results than when connected.
I have gotten to the position now that I can identify positive results in both a connected and disconnected state, but I wondered which one will likely to be more accurate between the two?
Best regards and happy trading.
Tom
Just as a bit of a background, I have struggled to match the performance of live trading with backtest results, but I am positive that these results will improve having put in the correct settings for GER30 and UK100 in the tick story. I modified my settings file by comparing other symbols. The second thing I'm positive about is connecting to a live account rather than a demo account as a demo account seems to be more in the customers advantage.
One thing I noticed early on is that an optimiser on UK100 didn't match an individual test when right clicking and setting parameters. I still need to do more checking, but my main question is, running an optimiser whilst connected to your broker yields different results than when connected.
I have gotten to the position now that I can identify positive results in both a connected and disconnected state, but I wondered which one will likely to be more accurate between the two?
Best regards and happy trading.
Tom