Please read the post more carefully Matheszabi. On my regular orders, most of my orders ... I got a slippage against me of 2 pips ! My SL was always at 9 pips and usually I had to endure a loss of 110$ before commission. But at the moment of the NFP ...

Does anyone have any experience with Dukascopy?

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Do they ever ask at FXCM: "Is that an advantage for the client ?" hahahah. Or is that of no concern ? Do the testing in your lab please and come to the client when ready. I Optimise an EA on 5 digits +2 (demo) and than run that EA on 5 digits only ...

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Look specially to the end of the very short movie en you see very clearly that the EA closes exact at the price ASK line on the chart. A NON EXISTING PRICE (at that moment) !!!!!! Did you noticed that the quote for DAX ... GER30 is 5 digits and ...

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And an other lack of respect for the client: To download 14 days of tick data from the history server of FXCM cost about 2 hours !!! Downloading 6 months of tick data from the Dukascopy history server takes 5 minutes !!! This means that downloading ...

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Not to mention how this affects our Expert Advisors !!! In this video you see that the EA closes the trade with the incorrect Spread as the MT4 shows. !!! The spread indicator shows 0.3 pips but the bid ask on the platform was around 0.8 during the ...

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The spread on FXCM is about 0.3 to 0.4 on EURUSD in calm market conditions most of the time ... This morning it was ...just until the very top of a spike up ..and than in a split second it became 1.2 pips ... holalaaa . Interesting ! Does FXCM has a ...

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2 big problems with tick based EAs: 1) Latency. In the BT the trade entry comes early in the spike, in reality the broker has to execute your order and the trade comes so late in the spike that you end up with a loser. 2) The biggest problem might ...

Liquidex_v2 (Scalper and Breakout EA)

Thanks for your answer Jason, but you don't answer the core of my question: Due to the spread being much smaller actual than on the chart is shown ... The bars show a price LOW that is incorrect. Is that acceptable ? This has also a negative impact ...

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Dear Jason, you suggested several times to NOT use MT4 on FXCM. I start to understand now WHY ! I asked in an online chat what the big spread (difference between bid and ask line on my chart) meant. They answered : "Don't worry it is a bug in the ...

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OMG !!! I got a tip from Nonlinear to compare the candles .... between Live feed of the USDReal02 server and the Download Manager candles ... and they are different indeed !!! Not due to the script ... because the only thing the script does is ...

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Sorry Jason ... but this I of course tried. It does not give the shift in time that we need. It simply puts a delay in the last download bar of x hours (it creates a gap in the downloaded data). You can control this by downloading the same data set ...

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I will ask my friend Thomas if he allows me to share his script with you. Or if he wants to be in contact with you directly. The script allows you .... after you download the hist data in a txt file with the download manager, and before you import ...

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Thanks for the tip Jason. It will demand a study of the specifics of these platforms and compatibility problems. Are the platforms in an MT4 compatible code ? or do we need to rewrite the EAs ? Etc Etc. The good news: My friend and me, finally after ...

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Finally after 2 days of experimenting we did it !!! My coder/friend Thomas B wrote a script to add x hours to the imported data, in order to get them in sync with the rest of the data from that specific server of my broker. If you need help with ...

Importing history data file in MT4

Downloading data from FXCM (or any other MT4 broker) is a real work of patience. And when you don't get it right, al your Back Testing will be bad and your real live trades will be very different (=losing money) compared to the Back Tests !!! Read ...

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And .... once you have a way to get 1min data from your broker ... than comes the battle of importing them in your MT4 ! In my case I try to import FXCM data in to my platform. It is a very big problem to get them in sync. And any time shift makes ...

Importing history data file in MT4

As you can see also on the picture below, the most detailed way MT4 stores it's price history data is at the 1 min level. So where comes the intra-minute tick info from ???

Importing history data file in MT4

And than after several interventions of Jason Rogers, they finally send me FXCM tick EURUSD data from 1 jan 2014 till today .... IN THE WRONG FORMAT !!! What a battle ! First I got a blunt NJET! from the support team. Than after the intervention of ...

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