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Post From: replay back testing vs real-life

[2014-01-15 13:29:15]
dominikos - Posts: 106
I'm evaluating Sierra Charts and wrote a few ACSIL strategies for automated trading since this is my intended use of this application.
I was wondering about the accuracy of replay back testing. I found that the same strategy left running for a day will produce different results than backtested using replay for the same time period. I would expect the to be a bit off but the differences were sizable. I use CTS4 demo account for testing and have my charts set to use tick data. The chart itself used for testing is a tick chart.
I would appreciate if folks using back testing could comment on the accuracy of the testing vs real life based on their experience.

Thanks,

- Dominik