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Historical Data Solutions

With the new builds for MT4, it appears as though the importing of historical data to the History Center is no longer allowed thereby restricting back tests to the use of inadequate data. What are various solutions to dealing with the problem of inadequate historical data in MT4

Weird Problem

One of my MT4 platforms is an Alpari 509 build that I've always kept offline for back testing since the history data I've imported to its History Center has always remained imported with no problems. For some reason, the latest EA I've tried to back test on the platform won't produce any results

Strategy Tester Spread Settings

Are the values of the spread settings for the Strategy Tester actually a tenth of the shown values? For instance, is a spread setting of '2' actually a spread of 0.2

AppData

Can somebody tell me where the AppData folder is? The pathway in the Data Folder shows that the AppData folder should be in the 'user name' folder. However, listed in my 'user name' folder are Contacts Currenex Desktop Downloads Favorites Links My Documents My Music My Pictures My Videos Saved Games

Strategy Tester Spread 2

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the Spread: 2 setting for build 625 (and perhaps any other previous builds) being far less than 2 pips (perhaps it's at 0.2 pips)? After recently doing some backtests on the spread 2 setting and getting unbelievably great results on all timeframes, I did

Price Spikes

When price spikes within a single M1 bar and crosses the level of a stop loss , is it possible for a stop loss to work? I have an EA with a stop and reverse that fails until the end of an M1 bar resulting in a great loss far beyond the stop

Getting The Run Around

About a month ago, I had a problem updating historical data that led to me trying something that resulted in the platform becoming frozen. So I uninstalled it and replaced it with the latest Alpari US build at that time which was MT4 build 500. From that point on, two versions of an EA I've tested

Heikin-Ashi

I have a historical question. Does anyone know the name or names of the individuals to have developed the Heikin-ashi technique and when such individuals had lived? With all the information on the history of candlesticks available, I've been surprisingly unable to come across any information on the

Period Converter Problem

I'm in the monthly process of updating my currency pair history data. I've successfully imported the M1 data. I've opened up a M1 chart, dragged the period converter onto the chart, and put in the numbers of the higher time frames that I want to test. On each attempt, nothing has happened. I check

Mobile Phone

So, if understand the rules, I can't create an order in the Jobs section if I don't have a mobile phone. Is that correct