MT4 Historical data

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I use MT4 on a new broker in a Demo account for some weeks. Yesterday I activated a Live Account but this one has limited data , as for exemple the m.a. 2584 stops on 251218 at 14:28 that is just one day for the 1min chart. What can I do to increase it?
 
MarkosV:
I use MT4 on a new broker in a Demo account for some weeks. Yesterday I activated a Live Account but this one has limited data , as for exemple the m.a. 2584 stops on 251218 at 14:28 that is just one day for the 1min chart. What can I do to increase it?

Contact your broker-dealer.

Metaquotes doesn't control your broker-dealer's data feed.

 

On MT4: if you don't have any history, here's how you can get all available from your broker.

  1. Most brokers only have 32 or 65K bars of history per timeframe. That's 45 days of M1, 2.5 years on M15, etc.

  2. Quickly DL all available history from your broker: Problem loading historical data - MQL4 programming forum (2010)

  3. Is there any way to load programmatically entire history (of a Symbol and a Period) from server? - MQL4 programming forum #8 (2020) MT5 - Multi-Currency Indicator in Tester - Technical Indicators - MQL5 programming forum #3 (2018)

Otherwise, you will have to download history from elsewhere. MT4 history: How to Start with Metatrader 5 - General - MQL5 programming forum - Page 94 #932 (2017)

 

Hello MarkosV! I’m a hobby trader from Japan living in Chiang Rai.

I was reading this thread to learn, and I am honestly a bit nervous to post after such experts like Roeder-san and Ryan-san. Their advice is always the gold standard here.

I also had the same trouble with 1-minute history data when I opened my live account. In my experience as a beginner, I found that even after changing the "Max bars in chart" settings, I really had to follow the manual download steps mentioned in the links above to get the data from the broker server. Sometimes it takes a bit of time to sync, but Roeder-san's method is the most reliable way.

I hope your backtesting goes well! Greetings from Thailand.

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