Comments for https://ctrader.com/products/4542
Comments for: https://ctrader.com/products/4542
- BBetaflow
all this just to have the wrong backtesting setting XD How bout tick data instead?
- Rrealbacktesting
Hi Betaflow,
Fair question — and a good one to ask. A few honest reasons it's m1 and not tick:
This is a multi-strategy Swing book — entries and exits fire on higher-timeframe bars (H2–H8), not inside the candle. For that style, m1 and tick land in basically the same place: when you're not trading intrabar, the tick-by-tick path barely changes the outcome. Tick genuinely earns its keep on scalping and very tight stops — not on a swing book like this.
There's also a practical side: running full tick across ~5 years and 8+ instruments at once is brutal to compute — it needs a seriously powerful machine and a lot of hours. m1 keeps the whole thing reproducible for anyone on normal hardware.
The one real thing tick adds is the variable spread (the m1 run uses a fixed spread). I don't hide that — on realbacktesting.com I publish an independent, full real-cost cross-check (real per-symbol spread + slippage + intrabar m1) right next to the cTrader number, and they land a few points apart, same conclusion.
Best part: don't take my word for it — run it on tick yourself. The cBot backtests in your own cTrader, your data, your settings, so pick tick if you like. A free backtest-only edition is on the way for exactly that, and the Store's 14-day money-back means you can verify the paid one on tick today. 🙂
Best regards,
The realbacktesting teamNoted, this makes sense then. Would you be willing to do a 1 year subscription for all 3? Also if you would potentially be interested in selling source code rights, we can have that conversation too. Please provide a contact? Many thanks
- Rrealbacktesting
Hi Betaflow,
Thank you for your interest and for the thoughtful questions.
On the 1-year subscription for all three: the subscription / recurring-billing option is not enabled on our products at the moment. Should it become available for our listings in the future, we would of course evaluate offering the bots on a rental basis from realbacktesting it's an option we're open to exploring.
On source code rights: here we have to be clear and consistent. At realbacktesting we always retain full ownership of our strategies, and we do not transfer or sell the source code under any arrangement. Our products are made available exclusively through the cTrader Store, which keeps the intellectual property protected and allows us to properly support every user. For that reason, access via cTrader is the only route we offer.
In the meantime, the best way to get fully convinced before purchasing is to download our free version, which you can keep and use perpetually:
https://ctrader.com/products/4614
With it you can backtest and optimize the strategy on your own cTrader, your own data and settings including on tick if you prefer and see exactly how it behaves before committing to the paid edition.
We appreciate you reaching out, and we're glad to keep the conversation going. You can always find more about us at realbacktesting.com.
Best regards,
The realbacktesting team