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could you please send me the EA too
Thanks
Netsu
puturta@yahoo.co.id
Backtesting works with real historical tick data only.
Mt4 platform simulate ticks from bar data, where M1 bars are the smallest.
Bars are nothing more than lossy-compressed price data: by making a M1 bar, you keep Open, High, Low, and Close and throw the rest (around 70-80%) of the data away. When simulating ticks, the platform tries to "guess" this missing part, but as you can see, not very effectively: if you compare a period made of simulated ticks, and real ticks, you will see, that simulated ticks often contain unrealistic movements.
These movements lead to unpredictable results: this can lead to the false results of such EAs, as these EAs accidentaly exploit the effect of these unrealistic, false movements.
By collecting ticks, or getting historical ticks, you can backtest on the 100% of the data, and you can accurate results, AND your results of running the backtest on the _same period_, with the _same EA_ will be exactly the _same_.
If you need more info on acquiring ticks, see me at forexzap<at>gmail<dot>com.
I have read alot of discussion about importing good tick data into Mt4 for back testing but one thing I dont quite understand about this, if MT4 simulates ticks from the M1 bars how does importing tick data into MT4 solve this problem ? Will not MT4 just do the same thing with the imported tick data, create M1 bars from it and then simulate the ticks ?
I have read alot of discussion about importing good tick data into Mt4 for back testing but one thing I dont quite understand about this, if MT4 simulates ticks from the M1 bars how does importing tick data into MT4 solve this problem ? Will not MT4 just do the same thing with the imported tick data, create M1 bars from it and then simulate the ticks ?
I did already read Birts review and I have downloaded all the tick data I need using his scripts, but I must have missed something in his explanation as I never really understood why MT4 would not do the same thing with the new tick data as it did with the tick data it recieved from the broker, i.e. create M1 bars and then simulate the ticks when backtesting
I did already read Birts review and I have downloaded all the tick data I need using his scripts, but I must have missed something in his explanation as I never really understood why MT4 would not do the same thing with the new tick data as it did with the tick data it recieved from the broker, i.e. create M1 bars and then simulate the ticks when backtesting
oh i see !! It all makes sense now thanks for the explanation Gordon
Thread start date - 2007.04.29