EURUSD backtest ends a year early

[render86Participant June 20, 2013 at 9:14 pm Post count: 51]

#18899

I’ve also just moved the MT4 build 432 and Tickstory from disk C to disk D on my computer (where I have more free space) and finished downloading the EURUSD and GBPUSD M15 tick data since 01.01.2008. However, when I attempt to run a backtest, I only get a bizzare “no data for testing” error message in the MT4 journal. What should I do?

[imported_tickstoryParticipant June 21, 2013 at 2:02 am Post count: 1479]

#18900

Hi Render,

When you receive the ‘no data for back-testing’ message it usually indicates that you have not launched your MT4 terminal via Tickstory. This post might also assist you:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61

Regards.

[render86Participant June 21, 2013 at 2:18 am Post count: 51]

#18901

@tickstory wrote:

Hi Render,

When you receive the ‘no data for back-testing’ message it usually indicates that you have not launched your MT4 terminal via Tickstory. This post might also assist you:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61

Regards.

OK, and what about the backtest’s early ending? I’ve just encountered it again – set a backtest to run from 01.01.2008 until 19.06.2013 and it finished on 29.01.2009. It’s not a matter of slow processing as I can see the actual backtest report already displaying under the strategy tester’s report tab.

[render86Participant June 21, 2013 at 2:48 am Post count: 51]

#18902

As a quick follow-up: just restarted Tickstory and MT4 through it (F8), then attempted a backtest from 01.01.2012 until present and still got that “no data” message in the journal.

[imported_tickstoryParticipant June 21, 2013 at 10:59 pm Post count: 1479]

#18903

Hi Render,

Could you please confirm you have followed the exact steps outlined in our video tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rMOen4UHg

If you can’t get things working after this video, you will need to provide some screenshots to help troubleshoot your issue.

Thanks.

[render86Participant June 22, 2013 at 4:14 pm Post count: 51]

#18904

@tickstory wrote:

Hi Render,

Could you please confirm you have followed the exact steps outlined in our video tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rMOen4UHg

If you can’t get things working after this video, you will need to provide some screenshots to help troubleshoot your issue.

Thanks.

Yes, I have watched and thoroughly followed this video.

Here are the requested screenshots:

[imported_tickstoryParticipant June 22, 2013 at 10:52 pm Post count: 1479]

#18905

Hi Render,

From what I understood from your last post was that you were still getting the ‘no data for testing’ message, however it appears you have gotten further than that.

The issue you are most likely having is with a limitation with MT4 which supports a maximum of 2GB file sizes. This means that you can’t currently back-test a large period of data. Please see this post for more details and how you can work around the issue:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=176&p=494&sid=df80f920f4dfd78e99e911adb6cc238d#p494

Thanks.

[render86Participant June 23, 2013 at 12:11 am Post count: 51]

#18906

@tickstory wrote:

Hi Render,

From what I understood from your last post was that you were still getting the ‘no data for testing’ message, however it appears you have gotten further than that.

The issue you are most likely having is with a limitation with MT4 which supports a maximum of 2GB file sizes. This means that you can’t currently back-test a large period of data. Please see this post for more details and how you can work around the issue:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=176&p=494&sid=df80f920f4dfd78e99e911adb6cc238d#p494

Thanks.

You write there: “- Break your back-test down into say yearly exports.”

Does that mean that I need to export the historical data year by year and then run the backtest for the entire period of time or that I need to export the data year by year and run separate backtests for each year every time after I finish the exporting for that year?

[imported_tickstoryParticipant June 24, 2013 at 8:20 am Post count: 1479]

#18907

Hi Render,

A single FXT can be a maximum of 2gb and you can only use a single FXT at a time on MT4. You can therefore workaround the limitation in various ways such as moving around the HST & FXT files as required to a single MT4 installation, or having multiple MT4 installations that have a specific date range of data.

Hope this helps.

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