Originally Posted By: Finstratech
I noticed that some systems behave very differently with and without the TICKS flag. Try setting it and the EXTRADATA flag. I haven't played with the slippage yet though. Will try.


TICKS + EXTRADATA (especially the second flag) change the results somewhat but there's still a huge difference even between 0 and 5 sec slippage backtest. You can try it for yourself with the code provided above.