I am trying to back-test one of my strategies using Eclipse and the various jars, etc. All builds and works so far, but I have a question on how I should use Indicators, if running using prices derived from the getHistory() call.

At the moment, I have added a section to the onStart() method to build price bar lists on history.getBars(). However, as much as I can call my strategies main entry-point onBar(), passing in the historic values, I have a number of methods that subsequently use technical indicators as part of the Indicators class - these seem to only be based on 'real-time' date and certain offsets from that point?

How can I use the Indicators with historic data? For example if I wanted a simple moving average (sma) of 50 bars from a date/time 4 month ago, not 50 bars from the actual system/real date.

Thanks,

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Hi,
Use History.getBars(..) to fetch the bar or bars you need from history and then IBar.getTime() when calling the indicator.
Have a look at the examples: https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/index.php ... Indicators