DislikedOne thing I've learned after 5 years of backtesting forex strategies: most traders don't realize their indicators are repainting. Here's the issue. When you use close[0] (the current bar's close) in your strategy logic, the value changes with every tick until the bar closes. So your backtest sees the final close, but in live trading you'd be entering on a value that hasn't settled yet. The fix is simple: always reference close[1] (the previous confirmed bar). Same for any indicator that derives from price. RSI(close, 14) should be RSI(close[1],...Ignored
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It seems this is not quite about us, but about other tests.
We generally do not use indicators at all.
Regarding indicators and the numerical advantage they actually provide — one could talk about this a lot. To put it briefly: most large-scale studies and backtests show that the edge provided by various indicators over the basic 50/50 binomial probability is usually only about 5%, sometimes up to 10%. That means, on a large sample, the final accuracy typically ends up around 55–60% at best.
As we have already noted — our win rate is consistently 93%. There is a test that we haven’t turned off for more than a year, and after 30,000 lots it still maintains an accuracy above 93%.
So the main point is this: even a high win rate does not automatically translate into making money. We have already been convinced of this through our own testing. What can we say then about 60% accuracy and indicators that sometimes work and sometimes don’t?
In short, we didn’t even go down the path of indicators from the very beginning.
If you are referring to the open and close prices published in the TG channel — it’s even simpler. These are trading bots — separate modules. They receive a command from the AI and then contact the broker to place the lot at the price that was considered appropriate at that exact moment
And in general, about ticks, minutes, hours… I think you will agree — this flow is not really about open and close prices or highs and lows. These are just convenient slices of time for visualization. The linear numerical series of a quote (the ratio of a pair) itself is essentially a one-dimensional vector outside of time.
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