Recent content by Astrevea

Just drop it mate, seriously. Do you not have better things to do on a Saturday than righting nonsense on a forum and giving people who are reading this really bad advice? I created this thread for a reason and only interested in reading on-topic replies. Not gonna bother reading any more of...

Backtesting is not useless, there is absolutely no logic behind this. I agree that forward testing/paper trading adds more to the backtest, but to say that backtesting is pretty useless is absolute nonsense.

It is difficult to say right now, I am willing to pay a reasonable amount, but what a reasonable amount is I cannot say at the moment, I have been busy with other things and haven't yet tried upwork (which I know some people are not kin on). I will create a request there today and see if anyone...

Also I wanted to write a separate post about this candle aggregation/creation concept that I keep referring to, I have no idea what percentage of traders on this forum use this concept, maybe a lot, maybe very few. I am new here... I am sure you can create a set of rules without the candle...

It doesn't freeze but it is very slow indeed. I am still undecided about what I am going to do about all this.. the reasons are in the rest of this post. Where do you live and would you be willing to work via upwork etc? Thanks for letting me know, could you tell me why you are willing to do...

Adding to the above post, the Dukascopy 15 sec data is also missing multiple 15 sec candles (within just one day), so won't be of any use.

After going deeper into it, I have realised that Excel will be enough fortunately. Does anyone know where I can download 15 sec/10 sec/ 5 sec historical data in Excel format? I know Dukascopy allows it, but once you go below the 1 minute timeframe, it only allows you to download data for 1 day...

Ok, thanks everyone for a mix of suggestions, I will look into all the options that have been suggested. Anyone who wants to suggest something else, please feel free do so, I will be keeping an eye on this topic, I will probably also post here once I decide which route I have chosen.

I don't use reddit a lot but if that is the case I may check it out, although I don't mind paying a reasonable amount on upwork (I am assuming you meant upwork) to get a higher chance of a robust backtest. Lol, how do you know how much I make? Do you know anything about what I do outside...

It's definitely not that complex, please see my last post once it gets moderated. Thanks for this useful input about databases etc, this is exactly what I thought about this morning. You need some sort of database.

In terms of coding myself, I explained to some other people who replied why I am not in a position to do it now, that message is still being moderated. The rules are not extremely complex to be honest, the only complexity if you can even call it that is candle aggregation which I mentioned (i.e...

Is there such thing as a standalone backtesting platform? Or are are you talking about a trading platform itself, i.e. MT4, MT5, ctrader, IB Trader Workstation, etc? Are there specific reasons why a programmer cannot just use raw historical data in Excel format to do the backtesting in which...

I would not create this topic if I didn't have many valid reasons for not doing it myself, the main ones being 1) i did some very basic programming in uni before and I know I am not very good at it and there are people there who can do a quicker and better job 2) I understand that programming is...

Hi guys, I will try to keep this as concise as possible. I have a trading method which is as simple as "if price is moving confidently we take a position and when price is no longer moving confidently we close a position", there is a strict set of rules for "moving confidently". This is not the...