Quoting fijitraderDislikedOf course this makes some serious differences between system performance. Did anyone read the comparison spreadsheets and follow up posts from a couple weeks ago where I said we need to find the provider that most closely resembles the forex markets we trade. Does anyone recall my suggestion to contact their data providers for explanations?
I see a couple of possible reasons for the differences in data:
1. different time of day when data is collected.
2. different source.
3. both.
I know that such price disparities do not exist between the retail platforms I have compared. At least not that consistently and not such large differences. Otherwise the arbitrage opportunities between providers would be much more lucrative. In the data comparison spreadsheets there are differences that extend greater than 80 pips, several in the 50 pip range and way too many in the 20 to 35 pip range. I could make a decent amount of money in arbitrage just trading the end of day differential these figures seem to show. The reality is that such differences do not exist as frequently or with the magnitude we see between data provides.
I contacted VP for assistance and the guy I spoke to told me he'd follow it up. So far I've not heard back from him.
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This week I am demo trading Strat #4 with CSI data as well as the other strats. It will be interesting to see at the end of the week how my trades compare with drjoe4x.