Tickstory

like a previous poster this month, i am surprised at how many bad ticks there are in the tick data i've downloaded -- all pairs are showing some troubled bars. i saw the other forum post and tickstory suggestions so i am not going to press the issue. but doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of down...

i am setting up for the first time. does MT4 load historical broker data before the Dukascopy data period? in other words, if i open MT4 via tickstory, then open a chart, i see the (troubled--lots of bad ticks) Dukascopy data and i scroll further into the past than i have tickstory data for (hit Hom...

thanks, i couldn't find that addressed in the manual or forum.

may i ask here about the best format for FSB, i do not see an option for 'tick' only 'bar'. does this mean that testing in FSB is necessarily less granular/worse than a tick-based system (like Amibroker, or even MT4 with Tickstory) ?

new user here... if i want to obtain data for MT4 and for say, AmiBroker or Forex Strategy Builder, do i need to do two exports 'Export to MT4' and 'Export to File' ? I have already done an Export to File, thinking i could 'convert' this data for use with MT4 without re-downloading it. thanks.