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Re: Continuous contracts and system testing



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That is absolutely true for markets where that makes sense such as stock
indices or currencies. For things like interest rate futures or some
commodity markets, that is not so easy. And, if you are working on a
futures trading system, then you need to test on futures.

Visavis wrote:
> 
> In my opinion, if only I would like to see how my SYSTEM works, I
> would prefer to use stocks data rather than artificially adjusted
> (forward/back). Nothing works better than genuine natural prices data.
> If you like to test it on trending or volatile or high volatile
> markets then choose it thru thousands of stocks available. Why waste
> the time on seeing whose better, forward or back adjusted or
> perpetual?
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong.