Help with backtest that only goes back a few days

• 01/29/2024 at 3:05 PM #227017
  Dragonk

  I’m trying to get a backtest to work. I input the 3-minute chart with 200,000 units, but when I run the test, it only goes back a few days. Why? I’m going crazy.

   

   

  

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  01/29/2024 at 3:15 PM #227019
  GraHal

  What does it do on 100,000 units?

  Also try 5 mins … no particular reason, just a step in fault finding.

  

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  01/29/2024 at 3:49 PM #227021
  PeterSt

  Hi there Dragonk,

  What tells you that it is going back a few days only ? I am not saying that your observations are incorrect, but what are actually those observations ? For example, can you show us the contents of the chart after a backtest is finished ?

  And a small hint : The content of the chart will (!) show the time span the backtest can run over. So there it starts.  But there are some pitfalls as well. So let’s start with the chart content.

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  01/29/2024 at 4:35 PM #227028
  Dragonk

  hi

   

  the dates tells me it dosent work. 200K unit 3m should be more the “start 25 jan 2024 and end 29 jan 2024.

   

  adding the whole backtest

  

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  01/29/2024 at 5:06 PM #227030
  PeterSt

  Those dates come from what you can enter here (below at the mouse pointer). Does that help you ?

  You should show the chart because that tells all. If it’s not in there, then it’s not there indeed. So ?

  

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  01/29/2024 at 7:03 PM #227035
  GraHal

  Dragonk wrote:

  “start 25 jan 2024 and end 29 jan 2024.

  Have you got the above dates selected as shown in Peter’s screenshot?

  Put another way … are selected dates overiding the 200k units you are expecting to see?

   

   

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  01/29/2024 at 9:53 PM #227050
  Dragonk

  now it works. but i need to go in there every time and change it or else its only a couple of days.

   

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  01/29/2024 at 9:57 PM #227051
  GraHal

  Dragonk wrote:

  i need to go in there every time

  You shouldn’t need to do above … set to Earliest Start date and Latest Finish date (or whatever the precise wording is oon PRT Platform).

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  01/30/2024 at 1:33 AM #227053
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  What GraHal says. But you need to save the platform data after you set/changed that date. Via the main menu – File, or else Ctrl-S. Ok ?

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