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If you try to look at a bar which is outside the time interval you're backtesting

Could I possibly ask for clarification about something. Suppose you were doing a backtest on a particular time interval and you were on the very first bar of that time interval, and then your code called a function trying to look at the previous bar. Does that mean that MT5 would get data from

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Unsure of why my Custom Symbol does not display any charts

I've created a Custom Symbol and imported some historical tick data for it, but MetaTrader 5 doesn't seem to be displaying any charts. Is it possible for me to ask whether anyone knows what might be going wrong here

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What format does 1-minute bar data have to be to be imported into MetaTrader 5?

Is there some information available on what format data has to be in to be imported into MetaTrader 5, and also any guidance on writing Python code to construct 1-minute candle data in this format out of tick data

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Want to import tick data to backtest a strategy on XAUUSD, however charts not working as yet

Hi, I just created a MetaTrader account and I need to learn the MQL5 language to implement a strategy on the XAUUSD market at 1- minute timeframe where we also want to use tick data as well as candle data, and I have a CSV file of the data that I want to import, however I created an account with ***