How to get fast the data for back testing

[shoko]

Hello.

I wrote a small script for testing a forex stragegy, it's based on 5 min bar, i have 2 questions :

1. It seems that in order to back test by using all of the data available in esignal, before i run the backtesting i need first to scroll the bars as much as i can in order to reterive all of the available data from esignal server and then run the backtest, why is that ? and there is a faster way to do so ?

2. There is a way to test on more data than the data availalbe on esignal ? it seems that for forex, on the 5 mins bars, there is data for less than 6 months, i need a few years data, what can i do about it ?

Thanks.

[ACM]

shoko
1. The better way is to set up a Time Template that will load the required number of days or bars.
For information on Time Templates and how to use them see this article in the eSignal KnowledgeBase
2. At this time there isn't. eSignal currently provides up to a maximum of 120 days of intraday data
Alex