Re: Butter Bot!: New Bitstamp, BTC-E, and MtGox EMA Trading Platform
Firstly, I love this and think its great.
However...
I backtested the recommended settings for BTC-e for 1 week....all fine. Tidy little profit.
I then fucked around with the settings for next half an hour to an hour, and upon returning to the original settings the backtest results were different.
Why is this? My numbers are exactly the same.
However...
I backtested the recommended settings for BTC-e for 1 week....all fine. Tidy little profit.
I then fucked around with the settings for next half an hour to an hour, and upon returning to the original settings the backtest results were different.
Why is this? My numbers are exactly the same.
Well, I'm not exactly sure, but I'd speculate that the thing that creates the difference is the price of BTC/USD as the live price is always fluctuating, so may have changed in that 30-60 mins that you were tweaking the settings. If say the price was $830 and when you first backtested, it's probably not going to be the exact same price when you backtested it slightly later, it might be $825 or $840 or whatever and I'd suspect that this difference would be responsible for the difference in the backtesting results.
Just a thought.
