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Date/Time: Sat, 17 May 2025 03:19:41 +0000



Post From: Performing Backtest for my automated trading system

[2024-05-19 21:57:49]
OctoPi - Posts: 41
This depends on bar size and your CPU & harddrive, but generally:

Backtesting ~4 years of data on hourly chart takes me about 30 seconds using Bar Based replay and about 2 hours using tick-data replay.
Your strategy must not use anything that might give forward bias or have really tight stoploss or targets when using bar-based, but it works really quick and well for rule-based entry/exit systems.

I always start with bar-based once I am certain the logic works and then verify it once using tick-by-tick replay.

You've picked a GREAT platform for what you are doing. Sierra will reliably return the result you are looking for.