The Historical Tester does not start a strategy in standalone mode
I added an empty Strategy in the attached file, which does nothing but showing a log message in the onStart-Method. This log message is not shown.

Version: 2.7.4/2.20.1

We are investigating this. Does this problem still exist?

Yes the problem still exists. The update to 2.20.3 didn´t help.
By the way, I don´t know why this issue has been moved to the Desktop Platform subforum, as it is a problem that only occurs in standelone mode.

Is there any progress on this issue. We cannot test anything since two weeks, which is really annoying.

This Bug still exists in 2.7.5.1 / 2.21.4!

There is one error in your code. The year is not correct:
startTestDate = df.parse("20012-06-12 00:00:00");

And we have found a problem in our Historical data feed server for the period of 4 hours. We are going to fix it soon. In a meanwhile, please test using different Period testInterval.

I corrected the code-error -> no change
I did test on the following periods: FIVE_MINS, ONE_HOUR, DAILY -> no change

Additionally I get lots of exceptions during start:

ERROR a - to(2012-06-13 00:00:00:000) > last tick time (-9223372036854775808)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: to(2012-06-13 00:00:00:000) > last tick time (-9223372036854775808)
        at com.dukascopy.charts.data.datacache.customticks.b.me(Unknown Source)
        at com.dukascopy.charts.data.datacache.customticks.b.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.dukascopy.charts.data.datacache.customticks.j.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.dukascopy.charts.data.datacache.ah.b(Unknown Source)
        at com.dukascopy.charts.data.datacache.ah.a(Unknown Source)
        at com.dukascopy.dds2.greed.agent.strategy.tester.b.a.b(Unknown Source)
        at com.dukascopy.dds2.greed.agent.strategy.tester.b.a.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

So your suggestions do not help me, I cannot test in any period.

1) The Instrument subscribtion must be before the "client.connect()"

...
Set<Instrument> instruments = new HashSet<Instrument>();
instruments.add(Instrument.AUDCAD);
client.setSubscribedInstruments(instruments);
...
client.connect(...


2) Thread.sleep(6 * 1000); must be before client.startStrategy(), otherwise strategy is started before first ticks are arrived from API/DFS

Instead of 2) you can use to following fragment of code:
//load data
LOGGER.info("Downloading data");
Future<?> future = client.downloadData(null);
//wait for downloading to complete
future.get();

This fragment must be called before the "client.startStrategy("

Ok that helped, thank you. Well something must have changed on your side than, because the code I used worked for a long time without problems.
I wished you could have told me a month earlier, about these small fixes in my code.