Hi FutureTrader112,

Working from home is great for part time traders unless they stuff you full of work of course.

As far as I know, Interactive Brokers doesn't have historical tick data.

Would your strategy have 1 trade active at the time, or could that be more?
Anyway, I would recommend to start with paper trading to make sure it is generating profits real-time. Then move to either a CFD (IBDE30 at Interactive Brokers, 1 euro per point) or FDXM (5 euro per point). This CFD doesn't have the same price as FDAX (currently 13 points difference), but it moves similar. FDXM is just the mini of the FDAX and trades well. Build up some profits, and use a pre defined scheme when you increase the number of contracts to trade, and when to decrease as well. So, the more you made, the more contracts you trade, and work your way up to FDAX.

I'm not a backtesting expert, but I think others give some valuable input in this thread already.

I hope you are able to continue at some point and to show your results here. Good luck!!

Cheers
Deetee

edit: Also DAX micros (1 euro per point) are coming up 19th April. I assume liquidity will be low at the start:

Eurex launching Micro Euro STOXX 50 (FXSE) and Micro DAX (FDXS) futures The link for the details in the screenshot is: Morad let me know that Edge Clear met with Eurex upper management end of last year to urge them to launch this type of product, for traders like most of us here on FIO, with reasonable fees. Eurex …