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thx for the pointer, dst. it's great to see this option exists. i am now less confused. :)

not sure what you mean by IB, i take it to be intrabank. i was just saying that i could not find a forex brokerage that would allow me to get a "paper trading" account to test my automated hypotheses. the places that offer APIs for automated forex trading usually charge upfront or require a...

during 2005 i was working on a 4 parameter trading model that was optimized on a set of data and then walked forward. the performance on the walkforwards was bad, so we realized that we were overfitting on the optimization set. part of this was that we had too many parameters. i recommend you...

dude, are you cross-posting? you shouldn't do that, it's rude.

you can do "breakeven" forex trading with pretty much any system, provided you have two accounts in two places ;). depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

i really should have mentioned that the file format i will ultimately need is CSV. yeah, i saw that when i searched the archives a bit, but i don't know how or if i can convert it to CSV format. if i have either a copy of Metastock or TS can i convert these data files to CSV format?

i've been running some simulations on historical forex data, but in order to test my hypotheses in real-time i need some data that i'm currently missing. i would like to get my hands on EUR/USD price data from June 2005 to present, preferably on a variety of intervals (1, 5, 15, 30 and 60...