No long-term backtesting possible?

• 01/19/2018 at 1:08 PM #59888
  Foickert

  Hi guys,

  for most of my strategies I need to be on a 5 or 10-minutes time frame.

  Unfortunately this makes a backtesting for more than 16 months impossible as there is a max. of 100.000 units available.

  Is there any solution for that issue?

  I would like to backtest for 5 years or even more.

  Thanks very much for your ideas!

  Markus

  

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  01/19/2018 at 1:24 PM #59892
  Nicolas

  You can get up to 200.000 bars with a PRT-CFD account.

  

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  01/19/2018 at 2:37 PM #59894
  Foickert

  Thanks for your quick reply, Nicolas.

  Im already using PRT via IG Markets.

  But in PRT I can only go up to 100.000 units..

  Or is there any option to change the limit?

  

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  01/19/2018 at 3:11 PM #59896
  Nicolas

  You are an IG customer, not a PRT-CFD one (an IG account sponsored by PRT = Premium with these exclusive features:  https://prt.md.it-finance.com/IGIndex/features_premium.phtml?locale=en_GB)

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  01/19/2018 at 8:19 PM #59919
  Foickert

  Alright, thanks for the info.

  I sent an email to PRT.

  

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  01/22/2018 at 8:45 AM #60126
  jebus89

  @Foickert I had to set up a new IG account, signing up via PRT, as Nicolas is talking about. I had to put the new IG account in my wifes name. It was definitly worth it 🙂 200K backtest is so effing useful 🙂 I had several strategies on that looked great on 100K but as soon as i checked 200K they sucked balls and where overfitted 🙂

  

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  01/25/2018 at 8:52 PM #60534
  Foickert

  Thanks for the further explanations, jebus89!

  I will do so 🙂

  Cheers!

  

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