In this post we share with you an Expert Advisor that helps us with our Backtesting. Specifically, we want to haveclean and live data before we run our Backtesting. This Expert Advisor will automatically save data at any given time in our MT4 platform, giving us reliable information to test our strategies.
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//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
input string InpDirectoryName = "Data"; // Folder name as an input
int file_handle; // Variable for saving file handle
string InpFileName = _Symbol + ".txt"; // File name
string delimiter="\t"; // User-defined delimiter
int OnInit()
{
file_handle = FileOpen(InpDirectoryName + "//" + InpFileName, FILE_WRITE|FILE_TXT|FILE_ANSI); // Open File
if(file_handle == INVALID_HANDLE) { // Check if file opened
Print("Failed to open", InpFileName, "file, Error code = %d", GetLastError()); // Print error if not opened
ExpertRemove(); // Remove expert
}
return INIT_SUCCEEDED;
}
void OnTick()
{
string s = StringConcatenate(TimeToStr(TimeGMT(),TIME_DATE|TIME_SECONDS), delimiter, // Save Datetime, Bid, Volume
DoubleToStr(Bid, Digits()), delimiter,
Volume[0]);
FileWriteString(file_handle, s + "\r\n"); // Write in file
}
void OnDeinit(const int reason)
{
FileClose(file_handle); // Close File
}
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March 02, 2017 at 1:24 pm, marion “haruRot” pastoral said:
Hi Kirill, could you explain to us what is a tick chart? How does it differ from the timeframes already in MT4 and can we use the tick chart in manual trading in MT4?