Weekly chart testing on MT4

[ivolux23Participant June 18, 2015 at 1:55 pm Post count: 3]

#20819

p.s.s.
I can export weekly fxt file from Tickstory by default, but whats the point of it if there is no way to use it? ❓

[imported_tickstoryParticipant June 20, 2015 at 3:37 am Post count: 1479]

#20820

Hi Ivolux23,

Thanks for your feedback – much appreciated. Regarding testing with a weekly time-frame, that’s a good question. Tickstory actually allows you export the weekly time-frame but in this case the tick (FXT) data is not used by MT4 – only the chart (HST) data. I’m not exactly sure what you would need to do to test in a weekly time-frame. Perhaps all that is necessary is to ensure all your indicators are explicitly specifying the weekly timeframe? There’s some discussion about testing with alternate time-frames here:

https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1368

Other than that, maybe some other users have some suggestions about how they have solved this problem.

Hope this helps.

[ivolux23Participant June 20, 2015 at 7:29 am Post count: 3]

#20821

Thanks for your answer.
Yes weekly fxt file can’t be used with MT4, but hst files can. So all I had to do is change my EA to look at weekly time frame when making calls. It wasn’t as difficult as I initially thought and now can run backtest on any time frame I want and EA would trade with Weekly chart data.

Thanks for your help

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