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Backtester Therory

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Backtester Therory

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 6:25 pm
by robertm1907
Just a quick question about how the backtester works. When you complete a backtest in the history it shows a list of Ticks with an event when triggered. My question is are these real ticks from historical data, or are they simulated from a higher timeframe? If so what type of data does the BackTester actually download. For example does it download 1 minute bars and simulate ticks within the minute, and create all other higher timeframe bars from these 1 minute bars? I can imagine to download 2 years worth of real tick data would take much longer then it does.
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Re: Backtester Therory

PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2018 4:11 am
by Apprentice
Unfortunately, they are simulated.
The amount of data would be enormous.
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