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I have noticed that if you have an EFS that you wish to backtest, and your EFS draws MA's, system symbols, etc., and you enter Bar Replay Mode, your EFS-generate drawn object do not work, your EFS formulas for MA's etc, do not work if you use a time template **other** than dynamic 24 hours. See Pic where the left side is with a 1-day time template (starts at 2am CST), and the right side is the normal operation with 24 hr time template (previous day data seen at left edge).
In the right side all EFS-generated stuff (lines, signals, text, etc) appears. But on left side, where data starts at 2 am because of the time template, almost NOTHING from the EFS appears as you step thru time. Exactly same EFS -- only the time template is different
Is this a bug or by design? it is frustrating if you have a complicated EFS to have to force it to work with long time periods when all you need to do is backtest the previous day only.
And, if you plan on responding by saying that the reason this is so is because in order to calculate values in the 1-day time template, the EFS needs values from the previous days (like if you had a 20 EMA, and they does not exist, well, let me tell you that then as I step thru in time further along the day, those needed values then fall into the current day, and the lines/signals should start to appear, say, one hour or so into the current day.
But that does not happen. I can step thru the entire day, and still NOTHING.
In the right side all EFS-generated stuff (lines, signals, text, etc) appears. But on left side, where data starts at 2 am because of the time template, almost NOTHING from the EFS appears as you step thru time. Exactly same EFS -- only the time template is different
Is this a bug or by design? it is frustrating if you have a complicated EFS to have to force it to work with long time periods when all you need to do is backtest the previous day only.
And, if you plan on responding by saying that the reason this is so is because in order to calculate values in the 1-day time template, the EFS needs values from the previous days (like if you had a 20 EMA, and they does not exist, well, let me tell you that then as I step thru in time further along the day, those needed values then fall into the current day, and the lines/signals should start to appear, say, one hour or so into the current day.
But that does not happen. I can step thru the entire day, and still NOTHING.
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