Backtester not using whole history data?
I hope you can help me understanding why the backtester does not use the whole available historical data?
My system works on the German 30 (DAX). In order to have a lot of historical data, I downloaded and converted the data from Yahoo Finance: https://www.mql5.com/go?link=http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^GDAXI
The System I am using, only acts on opening of a new bar, so it is ok to set the testing method to open bars only. Now, what I find strange is, that I want to backtest the system from 01/01/1991 until 2010. The data is available in the history center (see attached screenshot). But as soon as I start the backtest, it starts at 04/24/1991, so nearly five months later - how come that? Any ideas?
Have you check or try to increase your 2 MT4 parameters Max Bar ?
Max bars in history is set to 512,000 - max bars in chart is set to 65,000. So this should not be the reason. But thank you for your help.
It's not crucial, I was just wondering if you also experienced something like that?
Yes, but 65,000 ou 512.000 is the problem. Increase, restart MT4 and shoot again :)
Yes, but 65,000 ou 512.000 is the problem. Increase, restart MT4 and shoot again :)
65,000 should be enough. I have backtested in daily chart. So even if there were 365 trading days per year, then 65,000 days would be ~180 years ;)
The total history for the instrument I've tested is below 5.000 bars.
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I hope you can help me understanding why the backtester does not use the whole available historical data?
My system works on the German 30 (DAX). In order to have a lot of historical data, I downloaded and converted the data from Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^GDAXI
The System I am using, only acts on opening of a new bar, so it is ok to set the testing method to open bars only. Now, what I find strange is, that I want to backtest the system from 01/01/1991 until 2010. The data is available in the history center (see attached screenshot). But as soon as I start the backtest, it starts at 04/24/1991, so nearly five months later - how come that? Any ideas?