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# Live Trading & Forward Testing

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* Live trading, forward testing and backtesting are one and same event, and chart.
* The back-test will continue running, testing new live bars one by one, a live forward test. The vertical blue line marks the end of the backtest and the start of the live forward test.
* The two results can thereby be compared, and should be the same except for slippage.
* Indicators will always be valid when an ATS is set to live trading (if backfill of the charts was done).
* Without this feature, one would have to wait till the technical indicators become valid.