Using Strategies with CAlgo
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Darren
8 years ago #113764
Hi
I use the CAlgo platform for trading (https://www.spotware.com/products/client-side-applications/calgo) as I’m a C# Developer and find it easy to code. I’ve been experimenting converting the StrategyQuant pseudocode to CAlgo, which seems fairly straightforward. However, I’m seeing massive differences when backtesting strategies I’ve generated in StrategyQuant in CAlgo.
I was wondering if anyone else has experience using these two applications? or any ideas why the results seem to differ so much?
I’m using historical data from HistData (http://www.histdata.com) to generate my strategies in StrategyQuant, and CAlgo provides it’s own backtesting data.
Cheers
mikeyc
8 years ago #130724
I suspect it is differences in the backtesting data then (different spreads, different GMT offset, slippage behaviour).
mikeyc
8 years ago #133823
Hi,
I converted a SQ3 strategy (quite a simple one really) to cAlgo, and I too see major differences when backtesting in cAlgo. As yet I don’t have an explanation for the differences. The lack of visual backtesting in cAlgo makes detective work more difficult.
I’m sort of concerned actually that the cAlgo backtesting engine is flawed in some way, since the strategies backtest as expected in MetaTrader 4….
Cheers,
Mike
Threshold
8 years ago #133832
I’d start by using the same data, but its probably language differences.
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