MT4 Backtesting F.A.Q. - Page 4

davidwillis · 30-06-2006, 04:57:15 AM

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Originally Posted by traden4x

Has anyone been able to confirm or deny the quality of alpari data?

Or does anyone know of a better data solution?

Is there any problems associated with MT4 for doing backtesting?

Thanks,
Carl

you can get tick data here. http://ratedata.gaincapital.com/ and it is supposed to be more accurate. But I don't know how to import it. If someone knows how, I would like to try it.

slavafx · 06-07-2006, 03:19:46 PM

solved it myself

giaka · 22-08-2006, 08:17:17 PM

Hi guys,

Please Help: I really can't manage to import data, in whatever which format. I just do not get any data on the window import: none. I have tried in .HST, MetaStock, in .csv and in .txt: nothing.
Any clue?

giaka · 22-08-2006, 08:34:53 PM

Hurray, I made it (with .HST data): thanks anyway

yuxin911 · 28-08-2006, 05:26:32 AM

Excellent writing!!

satellite · 24-09-2006, 04:13:27 AM

Thanks very much, but is it supposed to take forever to convert 1 to 5 minute data - 25 minutes and counting on a 3500+ Athlon w/1gb ram.

I can not get quality above 25% either.

Barry · 25-09-2006, 03:18:09 AM

Satellite,
It only takes a few seconds. Have Terminal/Expert selected and you will see.
As for your 25% quality: make sure you do the period conversion on offline files, do it for every timeframe from 5 to 1440, restart the platform, make sure your testing dates are within the available data range, ie, after june 04.

satellite · 25-09-2006, 04:41:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry

Satellite,
It only takes a few seconds. Have Terminal/Expert selected and you will see.
As for your 25% quality: make sure you do the period conversion on offline files, do it for every timeframe from 5 to 1440, restart the platform, make sure your testing dates are within the available data range, ie, after june 04.

Ah, that fixed it. 89.5% on 5m data