Create and Test Forex Strategies
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**Close a position on a Margin Call** | **Close a position on a Margin Call** | ||
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+ | Turn this off to allow negative balance on your account. This is used when you want to see the trading results of a strategy regardless of the loss it might incur. For example, if you have $5000 account and your backtest starts off with several losing trades, then your account might get depleted just a few bars after the starting period. All other possible trades will be excluded from the result because the simulator will consider your account closed. | ||
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+ | However, if you want to simulate trading more realistically, | ||
**Use all available shorter periods and tick data to improve the backtest** - [[intrabar_stats]] | **Use all available shorter periods and tick data to improve the backtest** - [[intrabar_stats]] | ||
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+ | This option is useful when you have [[ambiguous_bars]] and you are not sure of the execution order of the trades within the bar. When it is on, FSB will load all available smaller periods and try to figure out the order this way. It will go all the way down to ticks if the data is available. | ||
===== 3. Balance / Equity Chart ===== | ===== 3. Balance / Equity Chart ===== | ||
**Show long and short balance lines on the Balance/ | **Show long and short balance lines on the Balance/ | ||
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+ | Turn this on to see the results of short and long trades on the balance chart. A green line will represent long trades and a red one will show the short ones. This is useful when you want a break down of the kind of trades that are profitable and shows how balanced (pun intended) a strategy is. | ||
**Show the market close price on the Balance/ | **Show the market close price on the Balance/ | ||
+ | This will show the forex price line in the balance chart. A grey line will show you how the price changed and can help you see what is going on whit your balance in bear and bull markets. | ||
===== 4. Program Settings ===== | ===== 4. Program Settings ===== | ||