FXblue Trading Simulator, Anyone Using It Successfully?

Hi there guys. I am trying to use high quality tick data that I generated for MT4 using QuantDataManager, It already has an "export to MT4" feature so it exports .fxt and .hst files to the proper folders, you just need to choose which MT4 installation you want.

On the article here:

https://fxprosystems.com/how-get-99-...-quality-free/

He says that the backtester will use the .fxt file that is generated by the script (but in this case you don´t even need the script because quantdatamanager already did the job of conversion).

The thing is that the FXBlue trading simulator (which is an EA that uses MT4 backtester to work) is not using the high quality data provided. When it starts the simulation, it seems that it grabs crappy data online, you can see in the screenshot that the wave volume indicator loaded has the values all messed up, because it needs the ticks to work properly, so it confirms that the backtester is probably using some 1min interpolated data or something like that. I had some suspicion because I configured the simulator to generate offline charts so you can open different timeframes in sync with the main testing window, so when I went to open the offline charts I could see that the files generated had a time period that started years before the file I provided (my file starts at 2003.05.05), I thought that the backtester would grab the file I provided and use it as the source to generate the other timeframes. (I generated a 5m "every tick" data file). Is there something I am missing here?

Ok I was able to figure it out, now it is working perfectly.

This is what I did:

I deleted the .fxt files that quantdatamanager was creating and placing on the tester history folder, I kept only the .hst files.

When you press "start" on the simulator, the backtester is gonna create a .fxt file using the high quality .hst file, it is gonna take a while, but after it completes you have the high quality data running, now even the other time frames generated (the offline charts generated by the simulator) are nicely in sync and with high quality too, the indicators are working perfectly now.

So the problem was that MT4 "wasn't liking" the .fxt generated by the 3rd party soft.

Hi there.

So, I discovered now that the simulator can´t handle more than 4 offline charts going full speed. If you add a 5th chart, it might crash the simulator right away, it hangs. If not, it will definitely hang if you put the speed slider to max value. Can you try and reproduce this behavior?

This is what I did:

I generated a high quality .hst file for EURUSD that starts in 2003.05.05 (using quantdatamanager, downloaded tick data from dukascopy)
I deleted the .fxt file in tester/history (so when you start the simulator, the tester will generate a new one based on the period you set from-to, just don´t go over two years cause it takes too long).
Start a simulation using a 5m timeframe.
Start adding offline charts one by one, and test with the speed set to max.
You will notice that around 4 charts it is already getting sluggish, and if you add 5th chart it is definitely gonna hang and you will have to end MT4 is task manager.

Hi! After some months since your last post.. what has been your opinion on that? Is it worth to try? thx!

Its not possible to attach an EA on the chart where Fx Blue Trading Simulator is running? Maybe some other solution trading simulator under Meta Trader that provides doing so?

I did a step by step video on how to use the FxBlue trading simulator:

Here it is being used testing the well known Guppy trading system: h