Tickstory

I specifed that I wanted to export one year of the EURUSD to MT4
Date range: June 1, 2014 thru June 6, 2015
I indicated that I wanted M30 H1 and H4 FXT and HST files.
When I ran Strategy Tester on H4 over that date range in the "every tick" mode it worked.
My logic only makes decision upon the completion of a bar (no intrabar stops, etc. that need tick data).. so I also tried to run Strategy Tester in the "control points" mode.
The errror message I get is "There are no ticks generated. History of H4 data begins 1970.01.01.

What? 1970? I specified 2014 thru 2015 when I exported data to MT4. I was careful to delete all History and FXT files prior to starting to work with Tickstory.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Hi Rcclarkjr,

Tickstory only generates MT4 data for the "tick" modelling quality. Selecting an alternate modelling quality will cause MT4 to acquire a separate set of data from your broker.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I purchased Tickstory recently and I got the same problem!!!

Regarding your reply I don't undertand why Tickstory cannot generates HST files for CONTROL POINTS backtesting. I think it will be easy to do because there is some code avaylable to similar actions (like CSV2FXT script). You must think thant some large optimization process is better to do in CONTROL POINTS before backtesting in EVERY TICK option.

thanks

jlao

Hi Jlao,

In theory, you should be able to use Control Points or Open Prices mode in MT4 simply by NOT launching via Tickstory. The Tickstory launch process suppresses the generation of the FXT files which are used for the actual back-test in the selected modelling type. In tick-mode, this allows the FXT file that Tickstory has generated to be used (as opposed to a sub-quality interpolation from the bar/HST information). If you bypass this step, MT4 should (in theory) generate the control points/open prices FXT file from the HST file that Tickstory generates as part of the export process. Of course, given that Tickstory is focused on tick-accuracy & the tick-based modelling type, you'll have to try this out for yourself.

Here's a good article on the various modelling types in MT4 that may also be useful: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1511.

Hope this helps.