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Get the same performance on minute backtest as daily backtest
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Hi,

I am getting different results on the minute backtest compared to the daily backtest over the same time period - this even though I have scheduled my ordering function to run 6 hours after market open every day.

Any ideas what I could do to ensure that the backtest result using minute data is the same as using daily data?

Many Thanks,
Brendon

2 responses

this issue also confused me, as my experience if you have the logical that through history and talib technical indicator to trigger signal,
the result difference will more seriously.

Brendon,

Check out Alisa's response as to why there are differences between minute and daily resolution backtests. Using schedule_function helps but when you are running in either mode the trade isn't executed till the end of the next bar.

Cheers

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