Tick data doesn't appear to load the Brokers spread
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:10 am
Hi Admin,
Thankyou for your work with producing this excellent tool !
A couple of questions if you dont mind
1) The spread field for EURUSD is populated with .3 pip when I use a config file built for my MT4 Broker.
After exporting the data into MT4 and opening MT4 with tickstory I run my EA and produced some diagnostics. (Note I have disconnected the platform from the Broker well before either of these steps as instructed).
Anyhow when running my EA both the MODE_SPREAD and a calculation of Ask - Bid, both show 2 full pips. Is it possible that the spread field in tickstory which is loaded from the config file is not playing its role properly when creating the .fxt files ?
2) Is there any chance you may eventually deal with the 2GB limit (similar to BIRT). This would be an awesome addition to your software, and pretty much close out all issues with the dreaded task of loading / using tick data.
3) Were you aware that data loaded with no volume (or at least all data loaded with the same volume) has a massive performance impact on MT4 when running tester. Up to 10 times as quick I would estimate. Does your tool provide the ability to delete volume data or massage it to have the same value each and every tick ?
Apologies if you see my other post detailing similar - but I believe I somehow lost the other post when I tried to edit it - so have added it again here just incase.
Regards
Stu
Thankyou for your work with producing this excellent tool !
A couple of questions if you dont mind
1) The spread field for EURUSD is populated with .3 pip when I use a config file built for my MT4 Broker.
After exporting the data into MT4 and opening MT4 with tickstory I run my EA and produced some diagnostics. (Note I have disconnected the platform from the Broker well before either of these steps as instructed).
Anyhow when running my EA both the MODE_SPREAD and a calculation of Ask - Bid, both show 2 full pips. Is it possible that the spread field in tickstory which is loaded from the config file is not playing its role properly when creating the .fxt files ?
2) Is there any chance you may eventually deal with the 2GB limit (similar to BIRT). This would be an awesome addition to your software, and pretty much close out all issues with the dreaded task of loading / using tick data.
3) Were you aware that data loaded with no volume (or at least all data loaded with the same volume) has a massive performance impact on MT4 when running tester. Up to 10 times as quick I would estimate. Does your tool provide the ability to delete volume data or massage it to have the same value each and every tick ?
Apologies if you see my other post detailing similar - but I believe I somehow lost the other post when I tried to edit it - so have added it again here just incase.
Regards
Stu