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Spending endless hours with the brilliant MQL debugger, coding an new idea. Watching endless visual backtests to see that everything is working ok. Finally, I think I have a winner (I'm sure you all know this feeling), only to find out that my

I have been comparing the IBFX live feed with the Oanda live feed, the IBFX feed is much 'sparser' then the Oanda feed, to the point where price movements on the 1min chart sometimes look very different. The IBFX price keeps 'gaping' between bars

I have been writing EA's for about a year now, after nearly trading my first account into the ground, I thought automated trading must be the way to go. So I set about learning MQL & the many pitfalls of backtesting ... Anyway, to the point, after

I have been using the Alpari M1 data to backtest with 90% quality. I decided that I would like to get better data, so I purchased some tick data and wrote a script to convert it to fxt based on the standard script on the MQL website. Now the