Backtesting on MT4 - Data between t/f's dont match?!

Beginner Questions
1

Hi guys,

Need some help please. I would like to back test my trading system manually on a demo MT4 account, however I cannot get the tick data to be aligned across all time frames.

For example, D1 data starts at 1/10/99 whilst M15 starts at 11/05/07 and M5 starts at 17/02/09. I would like all data to start from 1/10/99.

I have tried downloading new M1 data via History Center and applying the period_converter script as 5, 15 and 1440 but it doesn’t seem to respond?

Please help! Thanks guys

Paul

2

Changing the “Max Bars in Chart” option might help you with your situation, to a degree. Other than that, I don’t know if there’s a way to “snap” timeframes together like that in MT4.

3

It’s the data base.

I think it only allows for x amount of individual candles in a given time frame.

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