Tickstory

Can you use the tickstory data on live account? Do you think this would resolve the following issue?: I am trying to program an indicator to detect the highest point on the chart from the last 5 years but it is having trouble

Thank you

Hi Trader2384,

Just remember that if you use your 'live' account it will override the data you currently have from the live market. If you do not have data for the past 5 years in your history, then yes, it should resolve the issue with getting the high point. Of course, this depends on whether there is 5-years of historical data for the symbol you are exporting.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the response. What would be the problem with overwriting current data on the live account? Isn't the Tickstory data more accurate?

Thanks again

I think you have two options to get the highest price of the last 5 years.
1) Just to check: open a monthly chart of the your pair (Symbol()) and look how far back your provider offers data. If you find enough data you just have write in your indicator: I see right now mine goes back until 2006 - enough I guess.

2.) If this fails, create a data-file of what even candle you like (monthly perhaps) and then use the FileOpen() .. to rtead and check or you have to use the Windows.dll to read files out of the file-folder of the mt4.
Gooly

Trader2384 wrote:Thanks for the response. What would be the problem with overwriting current data on the live account? Isn't the Tickstory data more accurate?

Thanks again

Hi Trader2384,

There are a few reasons why people may want their live historical data - most notably, some people collect the broker data so they can be guaranteed that their tests will more accurately reflect their trading with that broker.
Of course, if you have no such requirement then the caveat does not apply to you.

Hope this helps.

yes, that makes sense - thank you.

Hi, on second thought, the idea of collecting broker data to ensure more accurate tests doesn't make sense to me. I thought broker historical data is filled in retroactively and do not reflect the real-time data from that broker. Isn't that why people looking for the most accurate data from their broker use Tickstory? Maybe I'm missing something here.

Hi Trader2384,

If you are collecting data 'live' as it occurs, then this is the most 'faithful' representation of what data your broker gives you. Of course, if you are back-filling data, then yes, it is possible that your broker can filter out any "anomalies" - or more importantly, if you are back-filling, you are at-best getting 1-minute data rather than tick-data.

Generally speaking, unless you are constantly keeping your MT4 running and collecting tick-data, you are much better off with the Dukascopy tick data to get an indicative idea of how your EA is performing.

Hope this helps.

thanks for the clarification