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Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:51 pm
by daxtrader
hello,

i wanna backtest my ea but it dont work. it says: tester cannot calculate prices
i see already an forum of it and it says that i should change the P. calc mode to 1. i did that but then shows up other errors but it work but not good. al the transactions are directly closed after open them.
maybe the settings are not good? i use default settings. somebody know the solution?

Thanks

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 3:25 am
by tickstory
Hi Daxtrader,

Have you checked out this thread which specifically deals with getting DAX30 to work correctly:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=829

Thanks.

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 3:35 am
by daxtrader
yeah but it says this in terminal:

2016.04.05 05:34:27.940 TestGenerator: file "C:\Users\leand\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\76AE827A66F7801B9D79B1FD1D2103FD\tester\history\[DAX30]1_0.fxt" cannot open [5]
2016.04.05 05:34:27.938 TestGenerator: file "C:\Users\leand\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\76AE827A66F7801B9D79B1FD1D2103FD\tester\history\[DAX30]1_0.fxt" is read-only

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 3:48 am
by tickstory
Hi Daxtrader,

This thread discusses all the reasons we know so far for the 'cannot open [5]" error occurring:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=980&hilit=cannot+open

Hope this helps.

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:25 am
by daxtrader
i tried literally everything multiple times...can you use teamviewer to look at it?

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:58 am
by tickstory
Hi Daxtrader,

We unfortunately don't provide remote assistance as a matter of course. Note that this error is due to insufficient data or incorrect settings being used on your export. Can you please confirm that you are exporting more than 3 months of data and also that you have used the following method to get the MT4 Settings for your DAX Symbol:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=809&hilit=mt4+settings

It is important to ensure that your MT4 Settings are matching your broker and the above method will help you cross-check all the settings completely.

Hope this helps.

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 1:05 pm
by daxtrader
Ok thanks i will do that, but one thing i am not sure about, your intial deposit you need give in manually? because it says 0 but on my account is it not 0

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:00 pm
by daxtrader
ok thanks it works now! but the journal says everytime fxt is read only, and you can set that off in tickstory. what is the fuction of fxt read only?

Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:40 pm
by tickstory
Hi Daxtrader,

Great to hear it's working! You should set your initial deposit for back-testing in the Strategy Tester by going to Expert Properties->Testing->Initial deposit.
The 'make FXT read-only' should be set to 'yes' - without it, MT4 will try overwrite the FXT files with its own data which is not what you want.

Regards.