[amibroker] backtesting: is it possible to look into the "future" by mistake ?

["shakerlr" <ljr500@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just wondering.  I'm having some (not all) pretty good results with the backtester and my strategies.  I was wondering, if I may be "forward looking" because of a bug in my code and my strategies are not as good as they seem, because of my programming?

I try to avoid this by triggering all buy/sell signals at the open of the NEXT bar with:

SetTradeDelays(1,1,1,1);

Should this be sufficient enough (IGNORING any slippage for now).  

The strategies are complicated with look back periods etc.  I just don't want to "look forward" by mistake.  

What I am really asking is, if AmiBroker will "help" prevent these type of look forward errors by never allowing me to look at a bar ahead of the current bar by mistake.

Thanks.







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