Tickstory

Hello, I'm evaluating to purchase a license of v. 1.7
I would like to know if Tickstory has a simple feature I'm searching for.

There are a lot of expert advisor that I test and optimize where I don't need a tick by tick precision testing, I'm speaking of expert advisor that performs intraday trading with tenths of pips of target.
For those expert advisor the basic quality of MT4 could be OK but we know that there are a lot of holes in brokers data, also they like to change DST to fool expert advisors.

So a basic requirement from my point of view is to have "light" (small size, in order to avoid high GB limit of MT4) fxt files created with 1 minute data (OHLC) but with required timeframe with correct UTC data.
In other words I find impossible with TDS or other softwares, to test an expert advisor WITHOUT ticks data precision (instead 1 minute OHLC could be enough), but having affordable Dukascopy data as prices precision and time precision.
This reduced data quality, can offer very fast optimizations for a lot of expert advisors that don't need tick data quality, but need decent data to produce credible test.
I don't know if last version 1.7 of Tickstory can create fxt files with, for example, using Dukascopy 1 minute data (OHLC) packed in higher timeframe fxt files, for example D1 fxt file that contain only 1M OHLC prices.

Hi Positiveday,

It sounds like you basically want to test with the "Control points" modelling method. This will essentially use the OHLC of the bars during the test.
You should be able to do this by using Tickstory and simply exporting the required date range and then switching to the "Control points" method when testing. This will cause MT4 to generate a new data file using the high-level historical data (HST) and produce a testing file (FXT) with your OHLC data.

Hope this helps.
(P.S. We will create a new topic for this thread).

Many thanks for new thread creation.
It's not the same thing to ask MT4 to create history from .hst files.
Hst files are rewritten from MT4 and something related to broker offset hours happen backetsting using .hst files.
I've tried to add the read only flag to .hst files and time is not correct (I use UTC Dukascopy hours, instead FxPrimus use offset hours), some time misalign happens.
I think that I will end to modify csv2fxt script of Birt to create fxt files with 1M OHLC.

Hi Positiveday,

Tickstory generates the HST/chart files during the export which means you should be getting exactly the same data representation as the FXT/tick files. If you are having problems with broker data overwriting your HST/chart data, make sure you are logged out of your terminal.

Hope this helps.