like a previous poster this month, i am surprised at how many bad ticks there are in the tick data i've downloaded -- all pairs are showing some troubled bars. i saw the other forum post and tickstory suggestions so i am not going to press the issue. but doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of downloading data??
i am bummed that i went through all of this to get good data and it is still not clean. i appreciate Tickstory's thought and design but on the consumer side, sadly i guess you get what you pay for. paid data may be the only way to go for backtesting over longer terms.
bad ticks in MT4
Re: bad ticks in MT4
tickstory could implement some optional methods to clean the data when it is being exported, such as discarding a tick if the previous price is above or below a certain value. It would also need to log this information so that the user can keep track of how many ticks were discarded.
Birt's csv2fxt script does stuff like this. So tickstory is actually good at creating the CSV files. I then use the birt script to convert into mt4 (fxt).
Birt's csv2fxt script does stuff like this. So tickstory is actually good at creating the CSV files. I then use the birt script to convert into mt4 (fxt).
Re: bad ticks in MT4
Hi,
Yes, we're working on providing filters so this sort of data cleansing is possible. Eventually we will provide a programming API to do this, however is we have a consensus on "must have" functionality, we can provide this in the earlier releases. If you have specific criteria which you would like to enter (such as "filter all prices above x%"), then please let us know the details.
Thanks.
Yes, we're working on providing filters so this sort of data cleansing is possible. Eventually we will provide a programming API to do this, however is we have a consensus on "must have" functionality, we can provide this in the earlier releases. If you have specific criteria which you would like to enter (such as "filter all prices above x%"), then please let us know the details.
Thanks.