I have a formula that puts up and down arrows on my chart when a trade should be made. I trade gold futures with 6 hour bars.
When I use the most current futures contract (August), my backtest and my trading signals match. However, when I use the later contracts (October or December), the backtest results and the trading signals don't match. On the October futures chart, I have at 8 trades, but the backtest only lists 3 trades. Why are 5 trades missing? Sometimes the later contracts like October will close without any contracts being sold. Sometimes it will close 20 to 30 minutes late because that is when a trade is made. When the bar closes late, sometimes, I will have a trade signal generated at the close when it was not generated until the late sale. I have checked to make sure that I am using the same formula for both. Thanks, Tom
