[blottParticipant July 16, 2013 at 8:15 pm Post count: 10]

in reply to: MT4 not launching from Start menu or via TS #19116

I am not happy at all with Tickstory. Twice now I have tried to load my MT4 with it, but it has done something to the chart windows formatting now. I had 8 charts open, but after using TS to upload some Dukascopy data to it, then using TS to load the MT4, it has lost all charts except one, and when I load another chart up and select Windows/tile horizontally, the MT4 disappears to be replaced by my browser window!

I also get a warning message before I use TS to start MT4 that this action could cause damage to my MT4. Brilliant! The attached further warning I get when the first warning window is shut.

I will not be using this software again.

Mike

[blottParticipant July 16, 2013 at 11:12 am Post count: 10]

in reply to: MT4 not launching from Start menu or via TS #19115

HI,
Does that mean I have to go through the process of downloading data again from Dukascopy?

Mike

[blottParticipant July 15, 2013 at 9:38 pm Post count: 10]

in reply to: MT4 not launching from Start menu or via TS #19113

Hi,
Re my MT4 not starting. It seems to have recovered and starts ok now. However, when I select eurjpy (the pair I exported from Tickstory) and try to run a back test in strategy tester, all I get is the finish squeak about 1 second after I press the Start button. The green progress bar goes across the screen in a flash, but that’s it. No processing, nothing.

I can see .hst files ranging from M1 with 21 MB up to Monthly with 808 bytes, and eight .fxt files all with 814 MB. Does this sound ok to you? If so, any idea why it will not run a eurjpy backtest? Other pairs I didn’t download and export via Tickstory test run ok. I must have done something wrong.

Thanks,

Mike

[blottParticipant July 13, 2013 at 8:29 pm Post count: 10]

in reply to: MT4 not launching from Start menu or via TS #19111

Hi,
I just think it’s more than coincidence that this only happened after I used Tickstory to upload data to my MT4, however, it seems to have ‘cured’ itself now, but I find I can’t run a strategy test at all. I can see chart data going back to 1999, yet when I select 1st Jan 2012 – 1st Jan 2013 and press the Start button, all I hear is the completion squeak 1 second later and there is nothing on the screen, no graph, results, or green progress line.

How can I delete all historical data and start again?

Mike

[blottParticipant July 5, 2013 at 10:39 pm Post count: 10]

in reply to: Settings window files obscured on MT4 tab #19046

HI,. I thought maybe the two Select boxes could be moved a tad down, along with the Server Name line.
Not being a programmer, I’d best leave the solutions to you, though sometimes an outside view can be refreshing. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings…:-)

Cheers,

Mike

[blottParticipant July 5, 2013 at 10:05 pm Post count: 10]

in reply to: Settings window files obscured on MT4 tab #19048

Many a slip twixt cup and lip! How often we think we have something correctly selected, only to find our hand/eye co-ordination is not as we expect. It would be nice to visually confirm the correct selection. Besides, what is the reasoning behind having a piece of data obscured? It introduces an element of uncertainty.

Mike

[blottParticipant July 5, 2013 at 8:29 pm Post count: 10]

in reply to: How to export data to Metatrader #19044

HI,
Let me see if I understand this:-
If I assign a storage folder on my HD to receive Data, and I download from Dukascopy, this data only goes into the storage folder. Right?

How do I get that data from the storage folder into my MT4? Should I have clicked ‘Export to MT4’ instead of ‘Download Data’ and the data would have been sent to my MT4 instead of being stored in my data storage folder? Which brings me back to the questions above; if I already have Dukascopy data, how do I get Tickstory to get that data into my MT4, without downloading the same data again from dukascopy?

Mike

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