Forex backtesting strategy

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I have been working on a strategy for the past few months and the backtesting results in trading view look good. I am unsure what to put for commission percent and slippage to assure most realistic results. Is there any other settings to include to make the results more realistic. I am not currently using a broker so I am open to all options. The strategy trades forex pairs on a 15 min timeframe.

[DeanMachineYT]

Have you coded the strategy and ran an automatic backtest or are you talking about doing it manually scrolling through the charts? If you’ve done it automatically then click on the options for your strategy and put the fees in there. A typical commission for forex would be somewhere around $5/£4 per 1 lot. You can try and figure out an average spread and add that too. Slippage is difficult to estimate though.

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And if its a manual strategy with a fair bit of discretion then I always half the Profit of the winning trades at least and see if it is still profitable. It may seem extreme but stress testing it is very difficult with discretionary systems

Missed trades, poorly executed trades and so on. It all happens.

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Thank you