Tickstory

Hi Pisti - the "no data for testing" message usually appears when you have either 1) Not launched MT4 via Tickstory or ; 2) You have not correctly mapped the symbol (eg. "EURUSD") to the actual symbol that is used in your MT4 (eg. "EURUSDm") or; 3) You have exported data to a different MT4 server (e...

Hi Voly - if you are not getting a 99.9% modelling quality then you have not followed the correct steps as outlined in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rMOen4UHg You will need to regenerate your export again and ensure that you have launched your Metatrader via Tickstory (as shown in the...

Hi Gooly,

When you are exporting your data to MT4, just uncheck all the FXT timeframes and Tickstory will only generate the HST files which contain bar data only (i.e. 1-minute, 5-minute, etc).

Hope this helps.

Hi Voly - if you are seeing the "Running" message, this indicates that the strategy tester is working correctly. It is possible that your EA is not functioning correctly. Check the Journal tab to see if its raising any error messages.

Regards.

Hi Foromex,

All we can recommend is that you ensure the latest .NET v3.5 service packs installed as well. Unfortunately we don't run Tickstory under Linux so we can't be of much more help, although we do welcome any other users who have such experience to help out if they can.

Regards.

The in-built Tickstory launcher will provide you with the ability to do fixed spread back-testing. TDS has a few more advanced features if you need them.

Regards.

Hi Rubys, Thanks for the further information. From what you are saying, it sounds like there are some issues with permissions/ownership. If you delete the files completely and re-create them with Tickstory (without using Administrator access) does it still fail to mark the files as read-only? Thanks.

I'm not sure how we can make it any clearer that we cannot answer your questions as we have no scope to troubleshoot nor change MT4 behaviour - especially if you're choosing to work beyond known limitations. This is not an issue of the FXT file size changing but the fact that MT4 cannot handle the l...

Hi Tickroll,

If you are using 'Open price' modelling then all you should need to do is select it in the back-testing menu.
Re: 1-minute data, Tickstory will automatically export this time-frame when you select it in the MT4 Export window.

Hope this helps.

I can imagine that you may well get this response. Metatrader 4 is not designed for the sort of high-end tick-level back-testing that Tickstory tries to facilitate and as a result, some compromises are necessary if you want to obtain tick-accurate back-tests. If you were to source your back-test dat...