Hi Pipperoni,
The “MT4 Settings” dialog effectively describes information about the symbol – that is, the instrument specifications/properties. It does not directly relate to your EA settings.
Since this information is available only via MQL, the TickstoryExpert is used to extract these settings for core symbols. Unfortunately it does not currently try to query other broker-specific symbol names such as “GER30”.
In this case, what you could try is the following as a workaround:
1) Close your MT4 terminal if it’s open and restart it manually (i.e. without Tickstory).
2) In the Strategy Tester, select the GER30 symbol and select any EA for backtesting in the 1 hour timeframe in the every-tick model (NOTE: the timeframe and model is only relevant for the purposes of selecting the correct file in the following steps).
3) In Tickstory, start the FXT Editor and open the file GER3060_0.fxt (which is the FXT file which would have been just generated in your back-test). The FXT file will contain the symbol information from the broker. Note all the settings that are listed (take a screenshot).
4) In Tickstory, select DEUIDXEUR for Export to MT4 and then the select the MT4 Settings tab.
5) Put all the symbol settings from your screenshot in the corresponding fields.
6) You can then “Save As Default” to save these settings permanently so you don’t need to do this again.
For your convenience, I have performed steps 1-3 for you on the FXCM terminal and the attached screenshot shows the results.
Hope this helps.
