[Zerit0Participant February 13, 2015 at 6:55 pm Post count: 3]

in reply to: Error: tester cannot calculate prices #20080

Hi all,

Such a long time I didn’t test indexes in MT4 but since I am trading again DAX I had to fight against this issue again

I already found a solution that I would like to share in order to shed some light if somebody else is finding the same problem. I tested in different indexes (DAX, CAC, IBEX, DJ, S&P500….) and It worked, also in different brokers.

Steps I follow:

1.- Without downloading any previous data from MT4 neither Tickstory I run a backtest for the EA and asset I want to test, TF doesn’t matter.
2.- Automatically it will generate a FXT file, you can find it in the /tester/history folder from your MT4 Data Folder
3.- Go to Tickstory->Tools-> Data MT4 Editor, pick up the file created in previous step.
4.- Now you will see all the information related to the asset to trade (in my case DAX for IG broker, attached)
5.- Go to Tickstory and download tick data, in the Metatrader Info tab just copy the information from previous step and Save it as a template. (mt4config)
6.- In tester->history folder every fxt for the TF chosen should now appear, they should be as “View mode only”. (You can further test repeating step 3 for the FXT generated)
7.- Run MT4 from Tickstory and get a nice balance curve 😉

As you can see it’s so easy, hope this few steps avoid you wasting time looking for 99% backtests.

Best Regards!

[Zerit0Participant May 2, 2014 at 7:50 pm Post count: 3]

in reply to: v1.5 Released! #20016

Hi Tickstory,

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I populated the Map to field as [DAX30] but at the time of running the tester I receive a message:

“Robot name:Tester cannot calculate prices”

I supposed It was something related to the currency and I changed it in the Metatrader Info tab –> Currency, I probed with both EUR and USD and it is still rising this error.

Do you know how to solve this?

Thanks a lot in advance and for your support in the forum 😉

[Zerit0Participant April 30, 2014 at 10:28 pm Post count: 3]

in reply to: v1.5 Released! #20014

Nice work Tickstory team!

I think indexes and commodities open a wide range of possibilities to this tool.

I am not getting 99.90% backtests in DAX index though. juts 40% and 25%. I am using Admiral Markets broker with 4 digit and the name of the index is [DAX3]. Do you know how could I get better results?

Thanks in advance!
Regards

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