Yet another MT4 historical data question...

OK:

I downloaded the history files from Alpari and put them in the MT4 History folder, imported the data, selected for the bars in history to be 99999999999999999999999999999, did the period converter thing and still when I run a backtest and the dates for the test show from 7/15/2004 through 10/19/2006. I did notice that when I selected for the -Options-Charts and set the max bars in history to 9999999999999999999 and ran the period converter that the new value was the default of 2147483647 for max bars back. Not sure why that is resetting itself. And the history center for each timframe DOES SHOW data from 6/16/2004 through 10/312008, over 4 years of data. But, the backtest only gives about two years for the test. Is the backtesting in MT4 limited to only 2 years? I did restart MT4 after I imported and ran the period converter so I'm not sure what else I need to be doing. This is data for the EURUSD...

Any thoughts???

You do not need to do the Alpary/converter thing anymore. Just go to tools Hystory Center and download your data.Below is a pic:

You may also want to delete all the existing records for increased data accuracy and restart the terminal. Doing all this i am able to achieve 90% modeling quality and have 1m data from 1999 on quite a few pairs.

Regarding the max bars in history always going back to 2147483647. This is the max number allowed by MT4 so if you put any number bigger than that it will go back to that number. The good news is this number is well more than enough even for 1m bars.

HTH

are you sure it's not anymore needed to download M1 and convert for 90% accuracy??

great!!

im pretty sure he said that it isn't at that it works without doing it so......