Multi-currency testing in MT5

[djroj2001]

Hi,

I read your guide about how to download tick data from tickstory to MT5 and backtest, which involves creating a custom symbol.

But what happens if I want to test an EA that trades multiple currencies? This EA will refer in the code the symbols that it wants to trade, but it will not select the Tickstory custom symbols because they have different names.

Is there a way to get around this? I am talking about existing commercial EA's, so the code cannot be changed to reference the tickstory custom symbols.

Thanks

[tickstory]

Hi Djroj2001,

That's a good question and might be one more suited to Metaquotes or your EA vendor. If the queries in your EA are hard-programmed into the code (eg. GetPrice("EURUSD")), then there is really no option we know of except for asking the EA vendor to make it configurable in some way. This will allow you to specify the symbol names - or pre/suffixes such as "tickstory_" which will automatically attempt to query GetPrice("tickstory_EURUSD") - so it will use your custom symbols.

Hope this helps.

[djroj2001]

ok thanks for clarifying.