MT4 historical data download

Hello,

Does some knows how to download missing historical data on MT4? I have gap between 28.11.2023 and 22.01.2024.

Never happened before

https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...ssing-mt4-data

Right-clicking on the chart and then selecting Refresh might help.

As someone who has encountered and suffered from this situation over the years, I have finally found the solution which I will share here, enjoy! Need more HELP, just ask and I can post pictures.

Just FYI as someone who use to do what you describe here; I know the pain you are experiencing trying to download historical data.

There is a better way to get the data from the server from your broker and that is:

Step 1: Open an M1 chart (M for Minute, not Month)

Step 2: Go to History Center (press F2)

Step 3: Navigate to the currency pair and the "1 Minute (M1)" history data for the chart you have open in your terminal (be sure to "double click" the "1 Minute (M1)" selection in history center so it becomes the active selection)

Step 4: Then left click once on any of the data rows in the right-hand window of the History Center (it doesn't matter which one)

Step 5: Click the "Edit" button, this pops up another window titled "Bar" and the default selection is on the "year"

Step 6: Push the down arrow on your keyboard until the year reads something silly like 1970

Step 7: Then select "OK"...this doesn't actually edit the data you selected but rather it creates a new bar with the timestamp and price info you just edited...don't worry about this as you will delete this fake bar in the end

Step 8: Now select "Close" in the History Center

Step 9: Navigate to your M1 chart of interest and then from the terminal menu select "Charts -> Refresh"...this will refresh the chart and attempts to fill any time gaps in the chart data (which now includes your year 1970 data point) with server data

Step 9 continued... Now your chart will have pulled anywhere from 2048 to 65536 M1 bars from your broker's server (not MetaQuotes server) and is usually far more data than you can get the broker to cough up when you try and manually scroll your M1 chart back in time

Step 10: Go back to History Center (press F2) and navigate to your currency pair and its M1 data

Step 11: scroll down the data to the bottom of the list, your will see your 1970 candle there, click it once and then click the "Delete" button in the History Center window

Now you have really quickly downloaded all the broker's M1 data on your currency pair that the broker is going to let you have, much faster than holding down the home or page-up key for minutes and minutes to download even less data. It works with charts of other timeframes as well.

Erebus, you teached an old MT4 dog something new. Thank you for that :-)

Wow so much work.


Try this folks

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/produ...source=Unknown

Yes, it is work, and those scripts are great, but they have never solved the problem of missing data for me, perhaps they have for you.

Or you never experienced the situation of large gaps of missing data in the recent time frames.

Thanks.

I've had ea's in the bt that don't even start because not enough historical data. After using this or another similar one, the backtester starts working. That's how I know I've got history imported. I would have no idea about some data missing and my trading wouldn't depend on things like that anyway.