HOW CAN I DOWNLOAD BACKTEST DATA FOR 1M FRAME FOR 5 YEARS OR MORE?
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SECOND, I WANT TOMAKE THE EA TRADE 16 CURRENCIES AT THE SAME TIME IN ONE EA SO I WONT HAVE TO REINSTALL IT ON EVERY CHART. HOW CAN I BACKTEST IT
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The default is to open History Center and download some data. There are some options in Options-Charts that I think change the way that history data is downloaded, but I'm not sure about this. The problem is that very often we got these holes of missing data for some reason and I don't know what is the reason for that, but it sucks. Also it actually depends on your broker, because the data is downloaded from the broker.
You can go in MetaTrader's installation folder and look in it's "history" subfolder. I think you will understand how things work.
When backtesting, just before the test, a giant file (it depends on the period) of data is generated and it contains all the generated ticks that will be used for the test. Those ticks are generated from the lowest available timeframes. If data from M1 is present, ticks will be generated out of that data.
You can also look at this http://tickstory.com/ and this http://eareview.net/tick-data-suite to learn about what is known as Ticks data
Note that you can only use external history data in MetaTrader 4. MetaTrader 5 does not have History Center.
And you can only backtest 1 symbol at a time in MetaTrader 4. If you try to backtest another symbol that is not the current one, you will get an error message.Turn off "Caps Lock" when possible.
