Tick Data for Backesting

Nov 29, 2013 at 10:48
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Uczestnik z Nov 21, 2011   1718 postów
Nov 29, 2013 at 10:48
Hi,

I would like to test an EA with 99% modeling data.

I have downloaded Tickstory to download the data. Unfortunately I have a pb when running it so I can't use it.

Does anyone could send the tickdata file .HST (format to be ready to be upload edinto MT4 Archieve) 1M on GBPUSD for 2013


Cheers
Uczestnik z Nov 21, 2011   1718 postów
Nov 29, 2013 at 15:21
Thank you @Thalantas
RedRhino
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Uczestnik z Sep 09, 2013   471 postów
Dec 05, 2013 at 08:21
sure can. in 15min
RedRhino
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Uczestnik z Sep 09, 2013   471 postów
Dec 05, 2013 at 09:36
here is is
Uczestnik z Nov 21, 2011   1718 postów
Dec 05, 2013 at 09:47
RedRhino posted:
here is is

Hi ,
Thanks a lot.
I should have precised I was talking about 1M tickdata. : )
TheCyclist
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Uczestnik z Feb 07, 2011   724 postów
Dec 06, 2013 at 12:30
You'll have to get good data from someone like Oanda, the MT data is so full of holes...it doesn't load all ticks.
Uczestnik z Jul 02, 2013   57 postów
Dec 06, 2013 at 14:02
www.tickstory.com
Sleep is for the weak
Uczestnik z Jul 02, 2013   57 postów
Dec 08, 2013 at 08:05


Tickstory downloads 99% quality data from dukascopy to your mt4 folder.
You can also change the leverage and spread.

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Uczestnik z Dec 29, 2013   6 postów
Jan 02, 2014 at 07:38
For free tick data please check https://www.fxtalk.eu under Automated trading.
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Uczestnik z Jan 16, 2014   416 postów
Mar 10, 2014 at 22:53
I would suggest that you take a look to the tick data from Dukascopy. They are free and the quality is good.
Uczestnik z Feb 12, 2012   63 postów
Mar 15, 2014 at 09:55 (edytowane Mar 15, 2014 at 09:59)
For REAL tick data you need Tickstory. Real tick data is HUGE in size and therefore can't be downloaded anywhere (afaik).
M1 data only, for the period of 1 year would be something over a half GB in size :)
Real tick data of multiple timeframes and multiple pairs from the period of several years would probably fill the whole remaining free space on your HD, possibly you would need a seperate HD for that data :D
Uczestnik z Jun 03, 2010   696 postów
Mar 15, 2014 at 21:06
True, but Tickstory comes now by serious overhaulin... In addition, it doesnt work well with new 600+ builds of MetaTrader. Shame, it was good tool.
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Uczestnik z Feb 12, 2012   63 postów
Mar 15, 2014 at 21:50
Tickstory v1.3 with Metatrader 4 build 610 works fine for me and I do testing right now over the weekend :)
Uczestnik z Nov 21, 2011   1718 postów
Mar 15, 2014 at 22:07
I have noticed that even 99.99% modeleing tick data is kinda useless.

Now I'm doing a funny demo test on 3 different brokers with same parameters.

Guess what... I don't get 100% same trades from them.

As price provided by brokers can be different and my strategy is based on a very accurate price to enter... 1 pips difference from each MT4 is enough to generate a trade or miss it out.

For me Backtesting is only a matter to check if EA is doing 100% what it should do.

Uczestnik z Aug 02, 2011   38 postów
Mar 17, 2014 at 08:00
I agree. Backtesting is very broker specific and only means that there is no price difference across different time frames. All prices are calculated based on the lowest time frame if I'm not mistaken. I also try more than one data provider for backtesting and compare the results. For me backtesting using tick story is exhausting. I'd rather use data from forex tester or Alpari.

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