Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

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daxtrader
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Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Post 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

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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Post 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.

daxtrader
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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

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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

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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

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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.

daxtrader
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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

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i tried literally everything multiple times...can you use teamviewer to look at it?

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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Post 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.

daxtrader
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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Post 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

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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

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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?

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Re: Dax30 historical data need for backtesting dont work

Post 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.

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