Tick data doesn’t appear to load the Brokers spread

Hi stu,

Welcome to the forum – thanks very much for your feedback. To answer each one of your questions:

– Regarding the issue with the back-testing spread, your question has been addressed in the troubleshooting section discussing this topic: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=43

– With regard to the 2GB back-testing limitation, the item is on the list however a release timeframe hasn’t been scheduled at this point. We are currently trying to make inroads into extending the MT4 back-testing period by allowing removal of duplicate ticks (should be available in the next release). This should see some significant improvement on the period you can test in one go.
If there is some feedback from the community, then the priority on this feature may increase. For the moment however, I believe there are suitable workarounds such as breaking up the back-test period into 1-year intervals or using Birt’s TDS.

– With regards to suppressing volume information, I wasn’t aware that this could speed up the back-testing process. I have tried to test this by exporting 1 year’s worth of data with and without volume information (i.e. volume is set to zero). In both cases, the back-test took almost exactly the same time. Do you have any further information to help validate this? Is the performance specific to certain EAs? If we can prove that there is some value-add, this feature can certainly be added to the export process.

Thanks!

@tickstory wrote:

It is enabled by default and will result in all volumes being set to 1.

Could you add an option to set all volumes to 4 as that would ensure the following use case:
When using minutes only, i.e. the checkboxes to generate FXT files are all cleared, the generatad HST files have to have volume set to 4 to be able to internally generate quasi-intraminute OHLC for MT4 tester, thus the reports will show modelling quality around 90% instead of N/A when all volumes are set to 1 as nowadays. Or, as an alternative, use volume value set to 4 when no FXT files selected.

Thanks!