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  • shawky
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    January 13, 2014 at 9:30 pm
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    #19606

    Don’t worry, Birt from EarView helped me out.
    For now, to get live spread in MT4 history I am using Birt’s CSV2FXT.
    I would have thought that given the number of requests on this forum over a long period of time that TickStory Lite would already support exporting of live spread, given the hard work of creating FXT and HST files is done.

    Regardless, keep up the good work.

    imported_tickstory
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    January 16, 2014 at 11:07 pm
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    #19607

    Hi Shawky,

    Sorry for the delay getting back to you. Supporting variable spreads is still on the cards, however our first priority is to revamp Tickstory so it can support this and many more features and platforms that our users are asking for.
    Appreciate your patience and support.

    Kind regards.

    shawky
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    January 18, 2014 at 1:06 am
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    #19608

    Thanks
    In creating the variable spread files I noticed that spreads for AUDNZD (my favourite) are significantly higher the further one goes back in history.

    My current challenge (and everyone else is my guess) is creating back test data that simulates live trading for the current time frame. The spread differences are huge and I bet this impacts all of the indicator calculations that work on Bid price alone. How to solve this I can’t say at present but it is causing my expert no end of grief on two live accounts, one has wide spread, the other very narrow.

    Any comments on this topic welcome.

    All the best

    imported_tickstory
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    January 20, 2014 at 3:21 am
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    #19609

    Hi Shawky,

    I’m guessing that you have an EA that’s particularly sensitive to spread. What you could do is work with a fixed spread and break back-test down into yearly time-periods. This would at least give you some indication of spread level and year(s) that your EA starts to degrade and perform further analysis from there.

    Hope this helps.

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