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by razorboy
Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:06 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: How many data points are enough?
Replies: 3
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Additionally, the correlation coefficent between the results of the two systems is about 0.04, which is pretty low.


Hi,
Doing a quick calculation suggests you have 60 days of 5 minute data. I recently re-signing up to eSignal which also only provides three months or so back of intra day data, but ...
by razorboy
Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:30 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: How many data points are enough?
Replies: 3
Views: 3767

Much thanks for the input. will take a look.

You are right to say that these tests only cover what happened over these markets of that past 3 months, but my thoughts are that given the small scale of my trading time frame (a 5 minute chart) relative to the last three months means that I have sat ...
by razorboy
Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:18 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: How many data points are enough?
Replies: 3
Views: 3767

How many data points are enough?

Searched through the forum but couldnt find anything on this, so feel free to point me in the right direction.

I have developed 2 spot forex system based on 5 minute charts both - over the last 17280 5 minute bars, the following results have been generated

System 1 : 185 trades - 43% win rate, a ...