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  • #1,461
  • Nov 23, 2010 12:32pm Nov 23, 2010 12:32pm
Quoting GoMarkets
As we are now running on the new demo server, I would be interested to know how people are getting on with the demo this week?

I have a question, currently in Saudi Arabia, +3 GMT, using server DC2, I have 1 hour difference on charts, for example, when it is 20:00 on computer time, Metatrader charts says 19:00?

Is that a daylight saving glitch somewhere or can you explain in any way?

Thanks, John
Canadian by birth Australian by choice
  • #1,462
  • Nov 23, 2010 3:31pm Nov 23, 2010 3:31pm
Quoting TheSnowman
I have a question, currently in Saudi Arabia, +3 GMT, using server DC2, I have 1 hour difference on charts, for example, when it is 20:00 on computer time, Metatrader charts says 19:00?

Is that a daylight saving glitch somewhere or can you explain in any way?

Thanks, John
Hi John,

It is no glitch, our server is on GMT+2, so you are one hour ahead of it hence the charts show 19:00 and your computer says 20:00.

Thanks,
Chris
  • #1,463
  • Nov 23, 2010 4:18pm Nov 23, 2010 4:18pm
Quoting GoMarkets
Hi John,

It is no glitch, our server is on GMT+2, so you are one hour ahead of it hence the charts show 19:00 and your computer says 20:00.

Thanks,
Chris
Thanks for quick reply, now I have bigger problems, using an indicator that thinks it is +3

some you might be aware of the pipware.com Dashboard? a local K1W1 programmer, has a thread here in the commercial section as well as a website, well worth a look
Canadian by birth Australian by choice
  • #1,464
  • Nov 24, 2010 2:45am Nov 24, 2010 2:45am
Chris,

I guess I have to ask you in this thread and hope you can guide me on how to obtain more historical data for EURUSD M1 on my live platform.

I did email support on this and Michael said that I already had more historical data than him!( he had only till 14 Sep)

Right now my live platform can go as far back as 29 June. I wanted to do some more backtesting up till beginning of this year .

Is it possible to get the M1 data from the start of this year(or less)?

Kindly advise.

Thanks
  • #1,465
  • Nov 24, 2010 5:35pm Nov 24, 2010 5:35pm
Quoting goldcourse
Chris,

I guess I have to ask you in this thread and hope you can guide me on how to obtain more historical data for EURUSD M1 on my live platform.

I did email support on this and Michael said that I already had more historical data than him!( he had only till 14 Sep)

Right now my live platform can go as far back as 29 June. I wanted to do some more backtesting up till beginning of this year .

Is it possible to get the M1 data from the start of this year(or less)?

Kindly advise.

Thanks
Hi,

Unfortunately the MetaTrader will only show so many bars on a chart before it starts to replace them with the new ones. If you get additional data it can be uploaded so it stores more, but if you are just leaving it to its own devices will mean that it keeps overwriting the old data. On a 1 minute chart this normally means you will only get data going back about two months, but on a weekly chart for example, it will go back for years and years.

I will see if I can find some more historical data for the EURUSD for you, and if that is possible I will let you know shortly.

Cheers,
Chris
  • #1,466
  • Nov 24, 2010 6:28pm Nov 24, 2010 6:28pm
Quoting GoMarkets
Hi,

Unfortunately the MetaTrader will only show so many bars on a chart before it starts to replace them with the new ones. If you get additional data it can be uploaded so it stores more, but if you are just leaving it to its own devices will mean that it keeps overwriting the old data. On a 1 minute chart this normally means you will only get data going back about two months, but on a weekly chart for example, it will go back for years and years.

I will see if I can find some more historical data for the EURUSD for you, and if that is possible...
Chris,

Firstly,I want to thank you for going beyond the usual to help.
I'm most appreciative to you if you can find the data that I requested.

Thanks again and you're the man!!
  • #1,467
  • Nov 24, 2010 7:13pm Nov 24, 2010 7:13pm
Chris,

Is it a 'must' to update to Build 229? Presently I'm on Build 228

I tried a few times to update but can't.

What is the update in Build 229?

Thanks
  • #1,468
  • Nov 24, 2010 10:57pm Nov 24, 2010 10:57pm
Quoting goldcourse
Chris,

Is it a 'must' to update to Build 229? Presently I'm on Build 228

I tried a few times to update but can't.

What is the update in Build 229?

Thanks
Most of the updates in MetaTrader 4 are non-essential, after all the platform has been around for about 7 years, so you would hope they have got rid of the major glitches! Here is the information given to us by MetaQuotes regarding the release of build 229:

New Version of the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal build 229

 

  1. Fixed errors in the operation of the internal mailing system.
  2. In the Help menu of MetaEditor added a link to MQL5.com.

As you can see, they are not things that are really important, although we do always receommend updating to the latest version.

We have found that some anti virus software is falsely detecting a trojan in build 229 which means your computer will not let you update it. Some AV software will allow you to ignore this, but as an example, on this computer I had to completely delete McAfee before it would let me update!

I would of course not recommend someone deleting software designed to protect your computer!

I hope that helps.

Chris

  • #1,469
  • Nov 25, 2010 3:01am Nov 25, 2010 3:01am
Quoting GoMarkets
Most of the updates in MetaTrader 4 are non-essential, after all the platform has been around for about 7 years, so you would hope they have got rid of the major glitches! Here is the information given to us by MetaQuotes regarding the release of build 229:

New Version of the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal build 229

 

  1. Fixed errors in the operation of the internal mailing system.
  2. In the Help menu of MetaEditor added a link to MQL5.com.

As you can see, they are not things that are really important, although we do...

Chris,

Thank you for the explanation.
  • #1,470
  • Nov 25, 2010 5:16am Nov 25, 2010 5:16am
Quoting GoMarkets
Hi,

Unfortunately the MetaTrader will only show so many bars on a chart before it starts to replace them with the new ones. If you get additional data it can be uploaded so it stores more, but if you are just leaving it to its own devices will mean that it keeps overwriting the old data. On a 1 minute chart this normally means you will only get data going back about two months, but on a weekly chart for example, it will go back for years and years.

I will see if I can find some more historical data for the EURUSD for you, and if that is possible...
is it possible for you to go to tools > options > chart and increase the max bars in chart and/or history. not sure how this would affect performance, though. I'm running it now in a local mt4 running in crossover (mac os x) and i think it may be slowing down the charts a tad initially, at least for the moment on the minute chart.

Perhaps change the settings, load all the 1 minute charts on that terminal, then change the settings back or to a lower setting for higher timeframes.



There should be a way to manually load in data in some sort of compressed format. We could just request these data files directly from our broker or something.
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  • #1,471
  • Nov 25, 2010 2:46pm Nov 25, 2010 2:46pm
About MT4 graphs and history data

Often When install the MT4 platform shown in the graph various holes and missing data, for example there 's a hole on EUR-USD from 07/23/2010 to 05/08/2010, this happens also with demos of other brokers so I guess is due to data or some bug MetaQuotes MT4 ... there is' hope Metaquotes solve the annoying problem.

Moreover, since every (re)install MT4 must re-download the history data from the history center, and historians are also limited, it would be great if you gave the possibility to download even for very complete history of M1/M5 and others from the website via zipped or self-extracting archive, so customers could then update the data in a short time and with very complete data, also a complete and wide history for M1/M5 (and others TF) are very good and very useful for Ea's backtests.

regards
  • #1,472
  • Nov 25, 2010 4:04pm Nov 25, 2010 4:04pm
Hi anybody else having 5.6 spread on EURUSD must be a joke but it is not funny on a live account
  • #1,473
  • Nov 25, 2010 4:12pm Nov 25, 2010 4:12pm
Quoting Pipo
Hi anybody else having 5.6 spread on EURUSD must be a joke but it is not funny on a live account
Hi Pipo, I must have been looking at the exact moment you posted, and saw our spread of around 5 pips on EURUSD so I checked a few other brokers and they all had a spread over 5 pips due to the fact that the market is doing hardly anything this morning! It is worth acknowledging that liquidity will be lower than normal today given the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Whilst spreads should be normal in the most part, because of lower liquidity you may see the occasional wider spread for short periods, probably in the morning mostly.

Cheers
  • #1,474
  • Nov 25, 2010 4:14pm Nov 25, 2010 4:14pm
Quoting GoMarkets
Hi Pipo, I must have been looking at the exact moment you posted, and saw our spread of around 5 pips on EURUSD so I checked a few other brokers and they all had a spread over 5 pips due to the fact that the market is doing hardly anything this morning! It is worth acknowledging that liquidity will be lower than normal today given the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Whilst spreads should be normal in the most part, because of lower liquidity you may see the occasional wider spread for short periods, probably in the morning mostly.

Cheers
Actually, following on my above, they already appear to be a bit more normal for this time of day, with EURUSD at around 2 pips.
  • #1,475
  • Nov 25, 2010 5:33pm Nov 25, 2010 5:33pm
Quoting Pipo
Hi anybody else having 5.6 spread on EURUSD must be a joke but it is not funny on a live account
being aware that the US is all fat and asleep from eating too much turkey from thanksgiving, and that sydney is only just getting the ball rolling for the day... it's not a hard call to think that maybe the markets are going to be a bit lame and spreads might be outside of normal liquid action.



i love the passive aggressive nature of ignorant people.
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  • #1,476
  • Nov 25, 2010 5:50pm Nov 25, 2010 5:50pm
Quoting nubcake
being aware that the US is all fat and asleep from eating too much turkey from thanksgiving, and that sydney is only just getting the ball rolling for the day... it's not a hard call to think that maybe the markets are going to be a bit lame and spreads might be outside of normal liquid action.



i love the passive aggressive nature of ignorant people.
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  • #1,477
  • Nov 25, 2010 5:56pm Nov 25, 2010 5:56pm
Quoting Pipo
Hi anybody else having 5.6 spread on EURUSD must be a joke but it is not funny on a live account
this is due to very low liquidity, if you choose to trade during major holidays then expect this, its not a broker issue its a liquidity issue from the banks
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  • #1,478
  • Nov 25, 2010 8:07pm Nov 25, 2010 8:07pm
yes I understand I am around long enough to know about liquidity but 5.6 spread on the most traded pair ?? I also must have missed that there is are major holidays what country are you talking about there?
Quoting Tmac
this is due to very low liquidity, if you choose to trade during major holidays then expect this, its not a broker issue its a liquidity issue from the banks
  • #1,479
  • Nov 25, 2010 8:36pm Nov 25, 2010 8:36pm
Quoting Pipo
I also must have missed that there is are major holidays what country are you talking about there?
It has been Thanksgiving in the US! Not many of them will be trading Forex today, and I don't blame them... if I could sit and watch three NFL games back to back, I would too!

Since the whole of Asia has been going spreads are as normal anyway, as I write this, EURUSD is at 1.6 pips.
  • #1,480
  • Nov 26, 2010 2:14am Nov 26, 2010 2:14am
Quoting Pipo
yes I understand I am around long enough to know about liquidity but 5.6 spread on the most traded pair ?? I also must have missed that there is are major holidays what country are you talking about there?
Thanksgiving as Chris pointed out, is perhaps the second biggest holiday and the day after, called "Black Friday" marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season.

The worst holiday to trade would be Christmas eve/day, as that day is observed in most major western markets throughout the world. Some brokers even shut down trading that day. New Years Eve/Day is another notable example.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en...onCalendar.php

and

http://www.marketclocks.com/ I think you must sign in to get to customize the global markets listings.

And i just found this one, which has the easiest to follow layout.
http://www.forexabode.com/bank-holiday-list
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