Lesson 14 of 27, 5 min video

Backtest: check any strategy on your broker in minutes

Take the order execution time from the journal of your Impulse trades and replay any strategy on the prices of past days in minutes, without waiting a week on a test account. The lesson runs a backtest of Two Leg on one account: how to start it, how to read the result, why it depends on order execution most of all and how to compare strategies.

What's inside
  • How a backtest works
  • What you need: an MT5 account and a fast feed with 14 days of history
  • The backtest window: available history and run parameters
  • Running and the notification when it ends
  • The result: balance, trades, drawdown, costs, execution
  • Equity and the run summary
  • Order execution: 47 ms versus 400 ms
  • How to compare settings and strategies
  • The order of work with strategies
  • What a backtest does not know
  • Trainer: comparing runs
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