No the EA gave HUGHE profits on any pair, month, or year, and without any form of re-training.
The price of 1H bar0 is its closing price. If you access this bar from a lower TF eg 1M you'll have that price available for a full 59 minutes before that
1H bar actually closed..... iaw looking 59minutes into the future.
You can monitor that bar0 price in backtests and see that it is actually stable, but on foreward test the price moves with the ticks...
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Originally Posted by MadCow
I am confused by your comment. Inputs 15 and 16 refer to the previous H1 bars since shift is 1 and 2. This does not seem to look forward. All the documentation on the strategy tester used for backtest state that the ST simulates ticks one at a time, and will not allow your EA to look into the future. It is not unusual for an EA to backtest well and then fail in forward test. There are many reasons for this, but it is truly hard to get the ST to look forward.. you must fool it by using an external file with the output of the net, previously computed, but shifted forward, or something like that. Perhaps the net was trained on old data and needs updating for forward testing. Or perhaps the backtest was on the data for which the net was trained.. that's just curve fitting.
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