New RT test

Does it make sense to have variable bar option (50min, 70 min candles for H1 and 25min and 35 min candles for M30 strategies) to see how robust is the strategy?

*timescale analysis

Hi Patrick, that sounds interesting. Will notice Mark about this to consider

Hi, I think it made sense.

I know some other people who do this.

thomas

Personally I am doing this too, H1 tested on M30, H4, etc. Should at least give a positive slope. What I am looking for though is shifted timeframe test. E.g. build the H1 bars for the backtest with a shift of +5 +10 or +15 etc minutes. As long as we have 1 minute data, that would be absolutely easy to do for SQ. E.g. don´t start the 1H bar at 13:00, but at 13:05 or 13:06 and keep that 6 minutes shift form there on – this will result in completely new H1 bars for a stability test, yet they are still build exactly from your 1M data that you used to create the main strategy without time-shifted bars.

yes, it is possible to do this manually as geektrader describes it, and I think I recommended it in some article. H1 strategy should work on M30 and H4 as well at least to some extent – it could be losing, but not a freefall.

But it is a good idea to add this to robustness tests as well.

The shifted H1 candles will do wonders for stability testing (e.g. from 13:06 to 14:06 instead of 13:00 to 14:00). I am currently generating these bars with a own MQ4 script and import them into SQ, but would be cool if SQ would have it out of the box.

The shifted H1 candles will do wonders for stability testing (e.g. from 13:06 to 14:06 instead of 13:00 to 14:00). I am currently generating these bars with a own MQ4 script and import them into SQ, but would be cool if SQ would have it out of the box.

It would be nice to have both test, one with shifted open of the bar (from 13:06 – to 14:06) and another one for changing candles from 60  min to 70 min

Yes, and another really nice option would be:

“Reverse data”. That´s simply nothing more than using the data in reverse for a backtest. E.g., if original data is from 1.1.2000 to 1.1.2016, SQ simply builds the bars the other way around, 1.1.2016 becomes 1.1.2000 and 1.1.2000 becomes 1.1.2016, all data in-between is reversed too of course. Which is another nice way to test the stability.