ProOrder: Real vs Demo

mcosta · 2018-03-20T08:01:53+00:00

Hi All I’m running the same strategy on both Demo and Real IG account; at 10:48 of 16th a short position was entered on real account and NOT on demo one(see picture). Code, stop loss and take profit are identical on both. May anyone explain this strange and irritating behavior of ProOrder? Thanks.

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03/20/2018 at 9:01 AM #65801 quote

mcosta
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Hi All

I’m running the same strategy on both Demo and Real IG account; at 10:48 of 16th a short position was entered on real account and NOT on demo one(see picture).

Code, stop loss and take profit are identical on both.

May anyone explain this strange and irritating behavior of ProOrder?

Thanks.

demo_account.png real_account.png

03/20/2018 at 9:32 AM #65808 quote

Nicolas
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Pretty difficult to identify what happened without the code of the strategy. Did you look at your orders lists? (CTRL+O) = very useful and informative way to identify possible problem with the codes, the market behavior, the broker’s server, etc.

03/20/2018 at 10:59 AM #65823 quote

GraHal
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What about spread difference?

It will have been spread = 1 on DAX at 10:46 on 16 March (?) what spread are you running on Demo?

03/20/2018 at 11:28 AM #65830 quote

mcosta
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GraHal…..spread=2

@Nicholas

The strategy code is taken from post #64371, the broker is IG Market, hereunder the screenshot of the order list.

orders_demo.png orders_real.png

03/20/2018 at 11:37 AM #65835 quote

GraHal
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So …

Spread = 1 on DAX Live?

Spread = 2 on DAX Demo?

03/20/2018 at 12:08 PM #65840 quote

mcosta
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yes GraHal….on real spread=1 …..but I think sometimes could be more due to slippage

03/20/2018 at 12:31 PM #65847 quote

GraHal
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So maybe the spread difference (1 to 2) is the cause of the difference Live to Demo (1 to 2)?

On my Platform on DAX …

Spread = 1 from 08:00 to 16:30
Spread = 2 from 16:30 to 21:00

Yes on Live there may also be slippage on Stops and Limits (due to volatile price change) which is not taken account of on Demo.

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03/21/2018 at 3:27 PM #65997 quote

robertogozzi
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This morning I experienced the same strategy running on Eur/Usd h1 (demo) to open a SHORT position, while, at the same time, on Eur/Usd MINI h1 (real) to open a LONG position.

Luckily the real one is profitable!

Both were launched with the same values for parameters/variables, just in different days.
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