Tickstory

My way of saving time, is i just use a "large" harddrives (250-1000gb) and export all Data for all pairs+Timeframes i might be interested in testing once. Then i use paragon Disk manager to image (copy hole Harddisk) twice, so i saved ~60% of the time, like it would take if i would export the Data o...

Hi ekke, if other EA's run fine then you should search within your EA for the error. Maybe you have some older versions of your own ea to test if a new feature you programmed recently caused the error. How many parameters do you try to optimise at once? try with one parameter only at first, then if ...

Ok i have some interesting new info, this time my brother made the discovery. It is possible to use tickstory with windows xp inside of VirtualBox, but only with a Trick. At first let my explain why Windows XP is still usefull. When working with (one or more) Virtual machines, Ram and Diskspace can ...

To avoid this autoupdates , just go to mt4-menu Extras->Options->Server and check procy server, click on proxy button and type in something useless like 1,1,1,1 and ok. Now mt4 cant connect to the internet for auto updates. I had a similar problem but it was too late. After i connected my broker cha...

Ok, i finally got it working. Why is it so hard? damn strange behavior of mt4! i discoverd 3 bugs in the meantime in mt4.see at the end. Anyway, the way it works is, I use Win XP 32 bit (works also under Win7 32 and 64 Bit) Quadcore cpu 5.Different Users: Admin User-1 User-2 User-3 User-4 ----------...

Hello, dear Tickdata forum member, please, does anybody feel free and experienced enough to let me know how to understand the tickstory tick data ? I have exported from Tickstory Lite to MT4 the tick data for indices and by this found out that the tick data displays wihtin the MT4 as an Open-High-L...

As most people i hang on mt4, but i found an interesting info that even convice me to switch.
MQL5 Supports OpenCL Backtesting! (CUDA Like GPU parallel computing with Graphiccard)

http://www.mql5.com/en/articles/690

Only Problem is no how to geht Tickdata for 99.9% backtests?

Hi,

is there any known possibility/programm to run tickdata backtests for MT5?

greetings

TEST Failed I can confirm that you can start the multiple instance BUT their suck each others performance down. I tested exact as you described. Same Broker only differnt Installation Paths (AAAFX MT X1,AAAFX MT X2,AAAFX MT X3) Windows 7 32 Bit, Quad Cpu , 4 GB Ram. I found out that is better to bin...

sadly i cant reproduce the situation, where 4 cores work at 100%. now when i try it i dont came over 50 with 2 cores, when i launch a third mt4 instance all cores go down to 25%. Sad, i cant figure out why, i restated and tried different combinations of Broker brands and users. Now i can run only 1 ...