Sunday GAP Trading EA - Backtesting Results but Tick data backtest needed

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Hi everyone i have been testing a GAP trading EA that trades the weekend open on sunday. I have best optimised this as best i can but now i am in need of some assistance.

Now this EA is meant to only run on EURUSD on M1. I have included the backtest i ran on M1 and M5, the M1 test only had a 25% modelling quality but the M5 test had a 90% modelling quality. Results below are from August 2009 - August 2013 on a MT4 Backtest.

I have included the EA and set file used so you just need to download it and use the set file and your good to go.

Could anyone run a backtest from August 2009 - August 2013 on M1 with tickdata? I would like to see if these results are better or worse than the M5 backtest.

Any questions please fire away.

Thanks

Gap Trading ERUSD.M1.mq4.zip (8.21 KB)
Gap Trading ERUSD.M1.set.zip (717 Bytes)
Strategy Tester - EURUSD - M1.zip (234 KB)

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Strategy Tester - EURUSD - M1.zip (234 KB)

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This used to be a good strategy several years ago. But then brokers went from fixed spreads to variable and usually the spreads were like 8 to 18 pips at the opening and for a few hours. That wiped out the profits. Tick data is the only way to get reliable back testing results. There probably is no point in testing more than the last 2 years. Before that was a different era.

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back test 99% from 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2013 :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the backtest really appreciate it :slight_smile: