Quote from: kenshin23 on September 10, 2013, 04:44:01 PM

Oda.krell, thank you very much for the excellent post. I will take it into account for my own testing, but so far, it seems to hold up (using a different range for testing.) I have a quick question for you, though: when using Gekko, you state that you've set the initial number of candles to 1 for testing, but when actually using Gekko to advise/trade, what do you set that value to?

I should say that I don't directly trade based on any single EMA method, I'm doing it half algorithmic, half intuitive :P

But to get the signals for my EMA methods, I use gekko with the default 100 intitial candles... no reason not to, I only set it to 1 so that in my backtest buy and hold and ema method would start on equal grounds.