Live History vs Demo History | Forex Factory

Options

Permalinks
Print Thread

Similar Threads

M1 data from LIVE (not demo or history center) account (GBPUSD) 0 replies

How to open demo account with Alpari-demo? 3 replies

When you open a live account, do you automatically retain a demo one as well? 7 replies

Any MIG users? Different candle close times between MIG demo and MT4 demo? 9 replies

IBFX changed their demo policy, where can I get an unlimited demo? 9 replies

Live History vs Demo History

  • #1
  • First Post: Feb 25, 2012 2:24pm Feb 25, 2012 2:24pm
Is live history data usually better than demo data? My demo account data seems to be showing a lot of holes.

Also wondering about daylight saving time settings. Alpari UK seems to use DST whereas FXCM don't. This presents a lot of issues as different countries use different times to adjust for DST
  • #2
  • Feb 28, 2012 4:13am Feb 28, 2012 4:13am
Quoting FrinkFX
Is live history data usually better than demo data? My demo account data seems to be showing a lot of holes.

Also wondering about daylight saving time settings. Alpari UK seems to use DST whereas FXCM don't. This presents a lot of issues as different countries use different times to adjust for DST
I know good tick and minute data, and I long time use this data.
If you interested I can share this data
  • #3
  • Last Post: Mar 1, 2012 4:57am Mar 1, 2012 4:57am
Quoting FrinkFX
Also wondering about daylight saving time settings. Alpari UK seems to use DST whereas FXCM don't. This presents a lot of issues as different countries use different times to adjust for DST
Hi FrinkFX,

Having times in Central European Time [CET: that is GMT/BST (UK time) +1 hour] avoids having small candlesticks on Sundays. Consequently, this allows the running of technical analysis and backtesting to be more straightforward.

CET has summer and winter time, which usually changes on the last Sunday of March and on the last Sunday of October respectively.

Alex
0 traders viewing now