Thanks a bunch Larry and Barry (r u brothers? ;-) I'm still not clear on Question 3 though. I understand that I can set trade delays. But what I'm concerned about is that all bars have a high and low that's pretty far away from the close price. For example, when you display a Forex chart as candle type, you can see the tall wicks and tails of the candles, especially on intra-day charts.
I'm trying to understand how purchases are made in the real world vs the backtester (I have yet to open a brokerage account but will do so soon). In real trading, will the whipsaw motion or price noise make it hard to buy or sell at a desired price? Will the actual price one gets tend to be plus or minus 5-10 pips from what is desired? In the backtester, it hits a price exactly, since it is operating on historical close prices. There is no "slippage" so to speak. And since the system I am designing only makes 5-10 pips per good trade, I'm kind of worried that it won't work in the real world for the aforementioned reasons. ===================== Posted through Grouply, the better way to access your Yahoo Groups like this one. http://www.grouply.com/?code=post
