1007101
27 Jan 2025, 18:14

Scratch that. I was trying to backtest a cloud instance. Need to add a local instance. 

1007101
04 Mar 2021, 20:05

RE:

PanagiotisCharalampous said:

Hi 1007101,

cTrader backtesting is very reliable. You can confirm it by testing your cBot on a demo account and then verifying the trades on backtesting. If your results are very different between the two bots, then first thing you should look into is your bots code. Probably there is an issue in one of the two, or both of them.

Best Regards,

Panagiotis 

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Many thanks for your reply. I did go through every line of the code and then did a visual backtest on both of them for the same date range. I found out that on a particular date, the MT4 platform did not close two trades, after which the market reversed and they went into drawdown. cTrader closed the trades at TP before the market reversed. I am assuming that the cTrader data would be more accurate, because the data is every tick from the broker's server, whereas my MT4 data is downloaded Dukascopy data incorporated into MT4 for backtesting as HST files.

Regards,

Jiggy

P.S.: How do I change my username? 1007101 is my cTrader account number.