Backtesting w/ $1,000

Quant Trading Strategies & Ideas
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Course Name: Forex Trading using Python: Basics, Section No: 3, Unit No: 2, Unit type: Video

I'm wondering if anybody can give me any insight into why when I backtest with $10,000 I see price action relevant to my strategy for both Portfolio and Benchmark price action, but when I backtest with $1,000 (the amount I would more likely use), I don't see any price action on my Portfolio price action, only the Benchmark price action. Default code used.

 

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Hi Uzodinma,



This is because when you set the capital to $1,000 no orders are placed as the minimum amount required to trade the asset is greater than the capital we have set. To resolve this, you can enable fractional trading if the broker supports it. You can also refer to this link for the same.



Hope this helps!



Thanks,

Akshay