Discussion of article "Creating and testing custom symbols in MetaTrader 5"

Does anyone know how to run strategy tester with imported tick data on custom symbol?

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I am using MT5 version: 5.00 build 1795 (03 Apr 2018) on Win7.

Trying to run strategy tester with custom symbol which only has imported tick data.

According to the instruction on MQL website in below, ref:https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/3540 , strategy tester can run just with imported tick data and do not need imported minute data.

But when I try this with recent version of MT5, I could not get it running.

One thing I find is in new version of strategy tester, comparing with above old strategy tester, new one has dropdown box (circle in red) to select the minute data and lowest is "M1" and it doesn't have "Tick".

Therefore, when I import tick data into custom symbol (without minute data), I get below error.

Does anyone know how to run strategy tester with imported tick data on custom symbol?

Below is steps what I have done.

1. in Symbol window -> Tick tab, exported recent 1 week tick data from USDJPY

2. in Symbol window -> Specification tab, create a custom symbol (named USDJPY.custom)

3. in Symbol window -> Tick tab, import step 1 tick data into USDJPY.custom

4. in strategy tester, selected USDJPY.custom, select every tick based on real tick and select M1 (as i need to select something)

5. in strategy tester window, it complain it can't find M1 data...

I believe I read that MT5 will generate minute data from tick data if tick data is available. has the requirement changed for testing in tick data, need also min. of M1 data?

kind regards,

Soi

It's not true!

#property script_show_inputs

#include <fxsaber\ThirdPartyTicks\CustomSymbol.mqh> // https://www.mql5.com/ru/code/20225

// Generate M1-history from ticks
void OnStart()
{  
  MqlTick Ticks[];
  CUSTOMSYMBOL Symb;

  if (Symb.IsCustom() && (CopyTicksRange(Symb.Name, Ticks, COPY_TICKS_ALL, 0, LONG_MAX) > 0))
  {
    Symb.AddTicks(Ticks);
  
    Symb.CreateHistoryRates();
    
    ChartOpen(Symb.Name, PERIOD_CURRENT);
  }
}

Hi fxsaber,

Thank you for sharing this!

Hi Alain Verleyen,

Apology for double posting, was going to delete it later but seems like i can't. will not do from next time : )