Tickstory

Hi Geektrader, Thanks for giving the further detail - it helps alot. It appears step 3) is the problem here. The Tickstory is intended to allow you to produce back-tests with tick data which means you need to select the "Every tick" model when doing your back-test. It seems you are selecting the "Op...

Hi Christian,

Could you please describe the exact steps you are taking to get this problem? This error is typically caused by a corrupt/incorrect Microsoft .NET installation.

Thanks.

As another user has reported, if you are exporting to a Metatrader installation that resides in the C:\Program Files directory, you must either move the installation to a different location or run Tickstory as an administrator to give it sufficient access rights to write to this directory.

Thanks.

Hi Traderjoe - thanks for letting us know. Yes, Windows 8 does not permit an application to write data to the Program Files directory structure without administration permissions.

Regards.

Hi Pipnotic - thanks for your keen eye and taking the time to log the issue. We've looked at the issue and see that this affects only the sample record shown in the Export screen. That is, the Ask & Bid price in the sample record is 1.24431 and 1.24433, respectively. We will correct this in the next...

Hi Traderjoe,

Did you follow the post given above? It should help you as the issue is related to a change made in v1.1 to reduce the permissions that Tickstory requested on start-up.

Thanks.

Hi Adeller,

More precisely, it will check for the existence of MT4Installation\history\<Server Name>\symbol.sel. Please enture the directory structure also includes the server name directory structure.

Regards.

Hi Tickster,

Thanks for reporting this issue. We'll take a look at this and address it in the next version.

Kind regards.

Hi Hansberger - sounds like an interesting e-book. Feel free to let us know the details when it's done - I'm sure some users here will find it useful!

Kind regards.

Hi Tickroll - the EA being greyed-out is not a problem - see here for more: http://forum.mql4.com/37975

Please run the EA in the strategy tester and check the Journal tab to see if the EA is correctly running or if it is generating an error.

Thanks.