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Added topic What is the Best Trade Account with Back Testing Data
I'm looking for a new trading account (to trade the DAX30) that offers its account holders access to their own historical data. I appreciate I'm not likely to get historical data for 'Free' so am prepared to pay for the account. I currently use IG
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Added topic Data conversion HELP
I have a free data sample of DAX30 data from TickData. The data is in csv format and the first three columns of 'tick' data are date, time, price. Is anyone able to give me some advice on how to convert this into a readable format for use
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Added topic Candle countin' of candles back from the current candle
All, This one is driving me nuts! whilst trying to write an EA to trade the DAX I've discovered several instances of missing candle data or periods where the market is closed during the night. I'm using the ' iclose ' to determine a close level from
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Added topic DAX GER30 Strategy Testing
I'm looking into developing an EA to trade the DAX or GER30, but when I attempt to run one of my more basic strategies on the DAX in the strategy tester , I find that I can't get it to download any Metaquotes data. I believe its using only the data
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Added topic Strategy Tester Maxing Out at £50/pip
I'm struggling to work out why the strategy tester will not allow my EA to place a trade greater than £50/pip. It runs on an IG DEMO account strategy tester fine upt to £49/pip but the moment the EA calls for a pip rate of greater than £50/pip it
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Added topic EUR/USD back testing how far back???
I've recently been backtesting a system on the downloaded data from Metaquotes and a question arose that has been troubling me. Since the inception of the EURO was roughly speaking around 1995 and the subsequent pairing of EUR/USD in the early 2000's
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Added topic HELP - Date Lookup in an external file
I'm trying to add a 'Trade' / 'NoTrade' element to my EA. My plan was to have a list of dates on which I don't wan't my EA to run, so UK Bank Holidays and US Holidays that kind of thing. My plan was to have a list in an external file that would be
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Added topic How can you execute a custom indicator on a chart from a running EA?
HELP! So I have an EA running on a chart and I can manually execute my custom indicator on the chart and that all works fine. But when I run the back tester and set the Visual mode on, I want it to run a custom indicator that paints lines and day
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Added topic Trying to develop a New EA...
Hi I'm trying to get started building my own EA, I have a trading system that I would like to automate, but its different to the typical MA cross over systems. Its a day trading system built around the highs and lows of a series of preceding candles
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