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Hi Magi, Thanks for the further details. Could you please check your FXT size and ensure it is under 4gb. There is a limitation with MT4 that is can't process FXT files larger than a certain size - see here for more information: http://www.tickstory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=202. I would recomme...

Hi OneAndOnly - use the following code which will display the spread for you (i.e. the actual difference between the Bid and Ask price in the back-tester):

Print("Bid: " + DoubleToStr(Bid, 5) + " Ask: " + DoubleToStr(Ask, 5) + " Calc spread: " + DoubleToStr(Ask-Bid, 5) );

Regards.

Hi OneAndOnly, This sort of makes sense from a pure back-testing perspective as the back-tester appears to be evaluating that you have reached your TP because the Ask price is beyond this point on the next tick. Generally speaking, you aren't really performing a reasonable test to have a SL/TP that ...

Hi Magi, If your symbol in MT4 reads exactly 'EURUSD' then you should not need to do anything. If it had read "EURUSDm" or something similar, you would need to specify this in the "Maps To" field. If you are still having problems, the next step is to ensure that you can see the data for your exporte...

Hi Tickroll,

Thanks for the suggestion. There have been requests to make a command-line version of the launcher which should hopefully provide similar functionality.

Regards.

Hi Oneandonly,

No, this doesn't make sense. I would be analysing a specific trade and printing out all the relevant values (spread, bid/ask price, etc) to make sure everything is as you expect.

Regards.

Hi Evveric - The OHLC currently always takes the bid price to construct the bar data. We will make this configurable in the future so you can choose either.

Regards.

Hi Oneandonly, In order to simplify the example, assume that you are trading EURUSD and the bid price is 1.3510. If your spread is 2 pips, your ask price is going to be 1.3530. This means that if you put on a buy market order, you are executed at the ask price. If you are entering a sell order, the ...

Hi Evveric, Thanks for your post. In answer to your questions: 1) I can see from your export that you are exporting 1-minute data yet you are trying to print out values for tick data. This doesn't work - if you select a bar format, you can only use field pertaining to the bar - Open, High, Low, Clos...

Hi Magi,

Doesn't sound like the files you exported are being used correctly. Ensure you have exported the correct symbol name as it appears in your MT4 terminal.

If this doesn't work you will need to give some more details of what you are doing so we can help.

Thanks.