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  • #1
  • First Post: Oct 23, 2016 11:18pm Oct 23, 2016 11:18pm
Hi guys,

I have a VPS that I can share for people to backtest any of their EA's that might look promising, I just need help getting 90%+ tick quality, or is the brokers downloaded data good enough?

If anyone can help please let me know, I want to get accurate backtests as a first step.
  • #2
  • Edited 7:28am Oct 24, 2016 4:32am | Edited 7:28am
Quoting gselsidi12
Hi guys, I have a VPS that I can share for people to backtest any of their EA's that might look promising, I just need help getting 90%+ tick quality, or is the brokers downloaded data good enough? If anyone can help please let me know, I want to get accurate backtests as a first step.
A couple of things I should mention. Its generally not a good idea to use a VPS for backtesting EAs as the processing power required usually makes using a VPS impractical, unless its a very high Spec (ie expensive) VPS.

To get 99.9% backtesting quality I use Tickstory. It costs a little but necessary to get as accurate data as possible (IMO broker data is quite useless for m1/m5 chart EA backtests). I think there are 1 or 2 others companies that supply data but not sure of their names, try googling it. There was a free one I tried but had problems with using the data.

1 thing I have noticed is that if you download Tickstory (Dukascopy) files over the weekend it is much much quicker than during the week.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
  • #3
  • Oct 24, 2016 10:23am Oct 24, 2016 10:23am
Quoting theras2000
{quote} A couple of things I should mention. Its generally not a good idea to use a VPS for backtesting EAs as the processing power required usually makes using a VPS impractical, unless its a very high Spec (ie expensive) VPS. To get 99.9% backtesting quality I use Tickstory. It costs a little but necessary to get as accurate data as possible (IMO broker data is quite useless for m1/m5 chart EA backtests). I think there are 1 or 2 others companies that supply data but not sure of their names, try googling it. There was a free one I tried but had...
How about 1H and longer time frames is broker data good? Yeah I tried the whole tickstory thing, but when i run backtests it shows quality as n/a
  • #4
  • Oct 24, 2016 11:18am Oct 24, 2016 11:18am
Quoting gselsidi12
{quote} How about 1H and longer time frames is broker data good? Yeah I tried the whole tickstory thing, but when i run backtests it shows quality as n/a
If you run a backtest and you get no Mismatched Chart errors I guess it might be ok.

I had the same problem with (Tickstory data) backtests showing N/A occasionally. Not sure if you are aware but to get the 99.9% accurate backtests you have to launch Mt4 via the Tickstory console ie "Tools", "Launch MT4". I think this sets MT4 up correctly to use the downloaded data and stops the FXT files being overwritten. I was getting the occasional backtest showing N/A because I had forgotten to open Mt4 via Tickstory.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
  • #5
  • Oct 24, 2016 11:58am Oct 24, 2016 11:58am
Quoting theras2000
{quote} If you run a backtest and you get no Mismatched Chart errors I guess it might be ok. I had the same problem with (Tickstory data) backtests showing N/A occasionally. Not sure if you are aware but to get the 99.9% accurate backtests you have to launch Mt4 via the Tickstory console ie "Tools", "Launch MT4". I think this sets MT4 up correctly to use the downloaded data and stops the FXT files being overwritten. I was getting the occasional backtest showing N/A because I had forgotten to open Mt4 via Tickstory.
ahh good to know, does the free version of tick story support this?
  • #6
  • Oct 24, 2016 1:13pm Oct 24, 2016 1:13pm
Quoting gselsidi12
{quote} ahh good to know, does the free version of tick story support this?
Yeah, I believe so.
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  • #7
  • Last Post: Sep 6, 2025 11:58pm Sep 6, 2025 11:58pm
I don‘t want to open a new thread, so I use this one for my question

I have just purchased an EA at mql5.

I let it run on several backtests with TMGM and Vantage Markets.
with the exact same settings I have 2 completly different outcomes.

See here:
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What's the reason for this?
On what can I rely on for future trading?
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