Spread issue on import

[vladar80]

Hey guys, I have an ECN account symbol XAUUSD with average floating spread of like 14 based on specification and when I create a custom symbol to import bar data from tickstory, the spread is on average 500. How can I get to me 14 average? If anyone could help me on this, would be awesome.

[tickstory]

Hi Vladar80,

You can force a spread of 14 by doing a custom tick format similar to this:

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{Timestamp:yyyyMMdd},{Timestamp:HH\:mm\:ss},{BidPrice},{BidPrice+14},{BidPrice},{BidVolume:F0}

And a custom bar format similar to this:

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{BarBeginTime:yyyyMMdd},{BarBeginTime:HH\:mm\:ss},{Open},{High},{Low},{Close},{BarTickCount},{BarTickCount},14

You can refer to the Custom formatting Token Reference section in our manual for more.

Hope this helps.

[vladar80]

Hi there and many thanks for the help. I managed as well by now to get a fixed spread of 14, but that is not to 100% correct to my broker, since my broker is having a floating spread that varies from 14 to 18. Is this something as well possible to export import from tickstory such a floating spread to be the same as on my broker? Many thanks in advance.