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    quote im afraid it doesn't. Demo offer perfect execution 0 slippage, off quote, spread spike, nothing of that. That is why live account much different.
    I have traded demonion along side of live through pepperstone and there isn't any difference between the 2. Its exactly the same.


    quote Demo account takes factors which you write.
    When testing an ea that you need to fund the tiniest live account possible to test. Nobody will buy or use an ea unless its been tested reside.

  2. #12
    quote I've traded demonion along side of dwell through pepperstone and there's no gap between both. Its the same. quote When analyzing an ea that you will need to fund the smallest live account possible to check. No one will buy or use an ea unless its been analyzed.
    Maybe if you are trading manually or avg commerce length is over 1day. But the truth is it is impossible that you receive precisely the exact same implementation on live as a ECN version. If you understand that on a ECN that you have to have a buyer and a seller and a ECN will find the best bid and ask price that for most because their account is really small and irrelevant will probably get other traders or on the broker books sometimes. But once you start trading real lots and volume you may actually get bank liquidity and subject to slippage and disperse variants. The liquidity is completely different. Again, you were probably trading a small newly created account and therefore saw none of those mentioned differences. Its hopeless in the future for a demonion and live to be exactly the same. I can prove it also with slippage tests and disperse monitors logs but I think that I got my point across.

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    Junior Member felikalo's Avatar
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    My guess is that you just fit some system to a specific time frame, which means you curve fit a system. It is very easy to do when back testing and doesn't provided very helpful information. Everything you have to do is choose the exact same system using the same parameters and test it on another time interval because markets vary you will likely get unique results. This is where the actual helpful information in back-testing comes from because you may see in what markets you can make cash and in what markets you can not. Then the match becomes how you specify the markets where your system will operate vs the ones at which it will not.

  4. #14
    All EAs win on backtest

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    quote Maybe if you are trading manually or avg trade duration is over 1day. However, in reality it's impossible that you get the same execution on live as a ECN model. If you know that on a ECN that you have to have a buyer and a seller and a ECN will probably discover the best bid and ask price which for many because their account is so little and insignificant will probably get other traders or about the broker books occasionally. But when you begin trading real lots and quantity you will actually get bank liquidity and subject to slippage and disperse variants. The liquidity...
    Thats true but you would have to be trading million dollar accounts prior to any substantial slippage will occur.

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    quote I have traded demo along side of dwell through pepperstone and there's no gap between the 2. Its the same. quote When testing an ea you need to fund the smallest live account possible to check. No one will buy or use an ea unless its been analyzed reside.
    Live with just how much $ and for how long? Likely a sub 10k account for less than 6 weeks Im imagining.

    quote Thats true but you would need to be trading thousand dollar accounts prior to any significant slippage will happen.
    define significant

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    Junior Member Laaysotelo's Avatar
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    Your account could have been burnt easily in the event that you would have beginning few minutes prior to the trade which generated the max DD.

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    Junior Member pet3r_xcm's Avatar
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    I achieved same results in 1 year by $600 to $130,000 https://www.cliqforex.com/general-fo...opagation.html

    And as expected it didn't work out so nicely in live market. Backtesting doesn't mean much. Only forward testing on live account is evidence that egy functions.

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