CopyTicks & error 4014 - page 2

 
Alain Verleyen:

Try it before posting.

This is an obsolete thread/post, real ticks are now available in the Strategy Tester, and CopyTicks is working fine.

i did try before posting.

i used "real tick" combo menu but when i try to retrieve ticks BEFORE the starting point then i get 0 ticks

 
Jean Francois Le Bas:

i did try before posting.

i used "real tick" combo menu but when i try to retrieve ticks BEFORE the starting point then i get 0 ticks

You can't control that directly but it's easy to work around it.

Let say you want to start a backtest from 2019.08.01, but you need  week of ticks before this date, so 2019.07.25 :

1. Start a test from 2019.07.25 and once the data are synchronized stop it.

2019.11.19 15:00:18.098    EURUSD,M5: testing of Experts\Forum\74393.ex5 from 2019.07.25 00:00 to 2019.11.18 00:00 started
2019.11.19 15:00:18.318    EURUSD : real ticks begin from 2019.07.25 00:00:00

2. Set your starting date to the good one : 2019.08.01, past ticks will be available fro; 2019.07.25

2019.11.19 15:00:33.178    EURUSD,M5: testing of Experts\Forum\74393.ex5 from 2019.08.01 00:00 to 2019.11.18 00:00 started
2019.11.19 15:00:33.387    EURUSD : real ticks begin from 2019.07.25 00:00:00

2019.11.19 15:07:17.622    2019.08.01 00:00:08                    [time]              [bid]      [ask] [last][volume]    [time_msc] [flags] [volume_real]
2019.11.19 15:07:17.622    2019.08.01 00:00:08   [0] 2019.07.25 00:00:27 1.11415 1.11418 0.0000        0 1564012827764     134       0.00000

 
Alain Verleyen:

You can't control that directly but it's easy to work around it.

Let say you want to start a backtest from 2019.08.01, but you need  week of ticks before this date, so 2019.07.25 :

1. Start a test from 2019.07.25 and once the data are synchronized stop it.

2019.11.19 15:00:18.098    EURUSD,M5: testing of Experts\Forum\74393.ex5 from 2019.07.25 00:00 to 2019.11.18 00:00 started
2019.11.19 15:00:18.318    EURUSD : real ticks begin from 2019.07.25 00:00:00

2. Set your starting date to the good one : 2019.08.01, past ticks will be available fro; 2019.07.25

2019.11.19 15:00:33.178    EURUSD,M5: testing of Experts\Forum\74393.ex5 from 2019.08.01 00:00 to 2019.11.18 00:00 started
2019.11.19 15:00:33.387    EURUSD : real ticks begin from 2019.07.25 00:00:00

ok i'll try that 


thanks so much


Jeff

 

it works


thanks again


Jeff