Strategy Contest Participants share programs fail to make profits in back testing the exact time they show winning,
Why?
Is there a difference between back test and forward run?
I have tested several of the programs and many show no profits on the exact time they have made winning for the competition
I tried them with different settings and still no luck
Is the system rigged so the legitimate files are not shared?
There are three types of JForex order execution engines: LIVE, DEMO and TEST.
https://www.dukascopy.com/client/javadoc/com/dukascopy/api/IEngine.Type.html
Live accounts use LIVE engine, demo and contest accounts use DEMO engine, historical backtester uses TEST engine.
Because of differences in implementation of these engines and environment in which they operate, same strategy code run on each of the engines may give different results.
Having said that, if a strategy is good, it should produce similarly good results in all three environments.
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