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MB-Trading historical data

  • #1
  • First Post: Feb 19, 2010 3:27am Feb 19, 2010 3:27am
Hi traders,

I am desperately looking for historical Forex data from MB-Trading Live Accounts. How to get that data?

The reason is that I am developing an EA running on MBT Live Accounts. It's already running well but I feel that if I had more data I would certainly be able to further enhance the EA.
What I need is M1 or tick data as far back as possible.
Using Metatrader with MBT, there is a historical backfill feature but i just goes back like 2 months or so.

Do you have an idea? I bet there must be people developing EAs for intended MBT accounts which face similar issues!

best regards and thanks for your help,
tradeigel.
  • #2
  • Feb 19, 2010 9:20am Feb 19, 2010 9:20am
Quoting tradeigel
Hi traders,

I am desperately looking for historical Forex data from MB-Trading Live Accounts. How to get that data?

The reason is that I am developing an EA running on MBT Live Accounts. It's already running well but I feel that if I had more data I would certainly be able to further enhance the EA.
What I need is M1 or tick data as far back as possible.
Using Metatrader with MBT, there is a historical backfill feature but i just goes back like 2 months or so.

Do you have an idea? I bet there must be people developing EAs for intended...

Tradeigel,

Historical data is only available through our MBT SDK, here is the data summary:

- 10 to 40 days for ticks
- 1 year for minutes
- 20 years for day bars which can be utilized for Week, Month, and Year bar creation.


Let me know if you want to explore this further.
  • #3
  • Feb 19, 2010 9:52am Feb 19, 2010 9:52am
hey, that's great! Thanks for answering. I didn't expect an MBT official responding here.

Well...I had a look at NinjaTrader 7 Beta because it's supposed to support MBT historical data. I didn't get it to download any data though (running in strang error messages from NT all the time)

Could you direct me to some example code snippets how to access the historical data API? Because I want to decide if it's easier to code a program downloading the data or if it's worth to resolve the NinjaTrader issues and make NT download the data.
Also, if there are plans for interfacing MT4 with your Hist API, please tell me, maybe it's not worth the effort trying to use Navigator API when two weeks later I can simply scroll back in my Metatrader downloading the historical data and already having them in MT4 data format.

thanks for your help,
tradeigel.
  • #4
  • Feb 19, 2010 10:03am Feb 19, 2010 10:03am
Quoting tradeigel
hey, that's great! Thanks for answering. I didn't expect an MBT official responding here.

Well...I had a look at NinjaTrader 7 Beta because it's supposed to support MBT historical data. I didn't get it to download any data though (running in strang error messages from NT all the time)

Could you direct me to some example code snippets how to access the historical data API? Because I want to decide if it's easier to code a program downloading the data or if it's worth to resolve the NinjaTrader issues and make NT download the data.
Also,...
You're welcome.

Regarding NT7, I've sent an email over to our contacts there to explore why the historical data is appearing. This would be easier than going through the SDK, but here you go:

MBT SDK offers access to both trading and quotes. The MBT SDK allows you to create your own custom applications to access all order entry, position management and quote functionality of our native, retail trading platform the MBT Desktop. The MBT SDK is a fully Microsoft COM-compliant platform written in Visual Studio Version 6 and should remain NET-compatible to NET2k8 and beyond. The MBT SDK is automatically made available to you by simply installing our retail trading platform the MBT Desktop, no other SDK installer is needed. You may develop in any Microsoft COM-compliant IDE:
Visual Studio version 6 and up (Version 5 is not usable), Borland C, Delphi, and VBA in Excel are among the most popular IDEs currently being used. For more information, please visit the following link on our website. http://www.mbtrading.com/developersMbtSdkApi.aspx
  • #5
  • Feb 19, 2010 10:11am Feb 19, 2010 10:11am
I've been told by NinjaTrader support that NT7 will support MBT historical data, and it has been tested. However, NT7 being in beta still can receive error message and it has been requested that you please report your issue on the NT7 forum so they can help resolve for the next release.

NinjaTrader Issue Reporting Process
We sincerely appreciate any participation in helping us test NinjaTrader 7. Make no mistake, this is beta software and there are bugs. If you encounter issues or have questions on NinjaTrader 7, please use the following forum section at the link below. Please also do no delete any of your logs/traces in the event that you run into an issue as we may ask you to submit this information to aid us in the debug process.

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...splay.php?f=43
  • #6
  • Last Post: Feb 19, 2010 10:26am Feb 19, 2010 10:26am
thanks for you quick and elaborated answer.
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