How to create custom history (HST?) files

[paysonwelch]

Hello,

I have tick level data that I have logged for the last few months.  I would like to now create a custom HST file with the tick level data so that I can do extremely accurate backtesting.

Can anyone point me to some documentation, or give me an example of how to create the custom HST files?

[Simon Gniadkowski]

paysonwelch:

Hello,

I have tick level data that I have logged for the last few months.  I would like to now create a custom HST file with the tick level data so that I can do extremely accurate backtesting.

Can anyone point me to some documentation, or give me an example of how to create the custom HST files?

For MT5 you can't . . .  as far as I know.  If you want to do it for MT4 you should search on the MT4 forum

[Alain Verleyen]

paysonwelch:

Hello,

I have tick level data that I have logged for the last few months.  I would like to now create a custom HST file with the tick level data so that I can do extremely accurate backtesting.

Can anyone point me to some documentation, or give me an example of how to create the custom HST files?

HST file if for MT4. If your question is bout MT4, post here please.

Here it's about MT5, and you can't create custom history data for MT5.

[Andriy Voitenko]

paysonwelch:

Can anyone point me to some documentation, or give me an example of how to create the custom HST files?

Please look at this example: https://www.mql5.com/en/code/780

[Simon Gniadkowski]

avoitenko:

Please look at this example: https://www.mql5.com/en/code/780

How do you get the  hst  file back into MT5 ?

[Alain Verleyen]

RaptorUK:
How do you get the  hst  file back into MT5 ?

You can't, it's for use in MT4.

[paysonwelch]

Hi everyone, I was referencing HST since this is what I am used to. I dug into the AppData folder for MT5 and there are files called ticks.dat organized in folders for each instrument. These files appear to be coded using a binary system, e.g. they are not ASCII csv files. So the same question applies, e.g. how do I make custom dat files?

[Alain Verleyen]

paysonwelch:
Hi everyone, I was referencing HST since this is what I am used to. I dug into the AppData folder for MT5 and there are files called ticks.dat organized in folders for each instrument. These files appear to be coded using a binary system, e.g. they are not ASCII csv files. So the same question applies, e.g. how do I make custom dat files?

Why asking same question already answered ? Hoping the answer will change ? :-d

At the moment there is no way to make custom data for MT5 plateform. You can export data by some methods, as Andrey show you. But you can't import. May be in the future, Metaquotes will decide to publish neccesary informations to do it. I don't know. If you need more details, try a request to Service Desk.

[Simon Gniadkowski]

angevoyageur:

Why asking same question already answered ? Hoping the answer will change ? :-d

At the moment there is no way to make custom data for MT5 plateform. You can export data by some methods, as Andrey show you. But you can't import. May be in the future, Metaquotes will decide to publish neccesary informations to do it. I don't know. If you need more details, try a request to Service Desk.

I don't see why Metaquotes can't give me the option, activated by a tick box in the Strategy Tester, to use my own data either as  hst files or similar or as a pre-prepared fxt file or similar.

[paysonwelch]

angevoyageur:

Why asking same question already answered ? Hoping the answer will change ? :-d

At the moment there is no way to make custom data for MT5 plateform. You can export data by some methods, as Andrey show you. But you can't import. May be in the future, Metaquotes will decide to publish neccesary informations to do it. I don't know. If you need more details, try a request to Service Desk.

Yes I was hoping there was a difference between hst and dat files ;)  I didn't realize I was asking the wrong question.  I'm looking at the example Andrey sent, I'll let you guys know if I come up with anything.

[Alain Verleyen]

RaptorUK:
I don't see why Metaquotes can't give me the option, activated by a tick box in the Strategy Tester, to use my own data either as  hst files or similar or as a pre-prepared fxt file or similar.

They can, obvisouly. I am interessed having that also. But this is not available at the moment. That's all what I said.