Dow / DJI – Market No Longer Available??
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Reminds me of the old (and famous) “EPIC problems” with IG instruments, but the error message is now more user friendly 🙂
Sorry, but I can’t help more here.
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GraHal – you are lucky, at least your systems are opening trades even if you can’t close them. My end of day/end of week strategies have opened exactly zero trades since 9th August!!! I go to bed and dream that in the morning something will have opened a trade! I am disappointed every day. My new hobby of knitting is going much better. I think I will have a very nice jumper long before any trades have ever opened.
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But of course now my Demo Forward Test Results have been screwed / lost their integrity yet again (only a few weeks after the 260 + point spike fiasco!
Welcome to my world. As you know I favour end of day and end of week strategies and I have not a single bit of forward test data to analyse since 9th August. I have something in the region of 70 strategies on forward test and to find out how they would have performed for the last month and a half I have to run a back test on each and every one of them – that is a lot of work. Even then I do not have accurate results as varying spread nor slippage is not taken into account accurately in back tests nor is there any overnight fees. It is highly unlikely that I will be putting any of these strategies live based on the IG/PRT demo experience recently which can only be hurting the pockets of IG and PRT.
Forward testing in demo is all about building confidence in a strategy and a platform and the recent experiences are doing the exact opposite as you say.
Today once again no trades opened so I have finished knitting a sleeve for my jumper – a very satisfying hobby in comparison.
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