[armnic1Participant July 24, 2014 at 7:00 am Post count: 4]

in reply to: Backtesting issues, mainly Modelling Quality n/a #20239

Hi,
Thanks for your quick reply! I have good and bad news to report. By the way, I’m using Windows 7 Home Premium, version 6.1 (Build 7601:Service Pack 1) on my 3+ years old laptop.

First the bad news. I tried your recommendation of pressing “launch” (MT4) again after MT4 has been started but nothing new happens. The same thing happens as reported above, that is, MT4 is launched, I could perform backtesting on the pairs that I have exported data to MT4, etc. but Modelling Quality is still n/a. Something that I did not mention on my initial posting is that between the “MT4 Launcher” window (No. 1 in initial posting) and “MT4 Launch Issue” window (No. 2 in initial posting), I receive an “User Account Control” window with the message “Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer? Program Name: Client Terminal, Verified Publisher: MetaQuotes Software Corp., File Origin: Hard Drive on this computer” with the options of Yes and No. If I reply No, MT4 is not launched; I have to reply Yes in order to launch MT4. Maybe the reason I did not mention this condition in my initial posting is because when I start my other MT4 accounts (live and demo) in a normal way (not through Tickstory) the same window shows up but in those instances I can reply either Yes or No and MT4 starts successfully. I have been trying to figure out why this ‘User Account Control’ shows up when trying to open any MT4 platform but I have not been able to figure it out yet. I even thought if something on my computer (adware, malware,etc) could be trying to do their things, so I did a full scan of my computer with Kaspersky (my anti-virus software) but things continue to be the same after the scanning/cleaning. Any new ideas to solve this problem?

Now the good news. I installed Tickstory Lite v 1.5.1.0, MT4 Build 670 on my wife’s laptop which is almost brand new (a couple of months old), exported the same currency pair (EURUSD) on the same time period as in mine laptop and performed the same backtesting (same EA, same timeframes, etc.). I got Modelling Quality of 99.9% in all runs. I just receive the ‘MT4 Launcher’ window as in No,1 of my initial posting. Something that I noticed is that the title of the MT4 window does not show the “Tickstory Launcher” just the regular ‘Login No.:MetaTrader4 – (Currency Pair, Time Frame)’. Something to be worried about by not showing the ‘Tickstory Launcher’ on the title of the window?

Regards,

Armando

[armnic1Participant July 19, 2014 at 8:44 pm Post count: 4]

in reply to: Backtesting issues, mainly Modelling Quality n/a #20235

Hi EternalLines,

The MT4 installation is at the same location; it has not changed. In my case, it is under C:Program Files (x86). In Tickstory, click on “File”, then “Settings”, then “MT4 Settings” and then click the “Select” button on the “MT4 Installation” line to select which MT4 platform you’ll be using for backtesting; this is the point where you need to navigate to your MT4 platform to let Tickstory knows where it is located. I have several MT4 platforms from different brokers (all under the Program Files (x86) folder) but I downloaded one directly from MetaQuotes.com exclusively for backtesting. After you select your MT4 platform, Tickstory assigns directly the “MT4 Data Folder” and “Server Name” fields.
Hope this help you!

[armnic1Participant July 29, 2013 at 7:02 am Post count: 4]

in reply to: 0.9.1.0 cant run mt4 build 509? #18994

I was having the same problem, receiving the same message “A suitable launcher …”, my MT4 Build was 509. Thanks for this thread I could solve the problem as instructed: clicking the Like button at the top right corner and clicking the “Keep me log in…”, the star color changed to gold and then exit and restarted Tickstory. I kept my Google Chrome browser (no need to make IE your default browser) and it worked beatifully. Thanks again!

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