Each currency pair or instrument must follow the following steps to load enough tick/volume history. Thus, these are required for the system to function properly... especially if this is your first time logging-in to your (new) live/demo account
Step 1) Open an M1 chart
Step 2) Press the "F2" key to load History Center
Step 3) Navigate to the currency pair and the "1 Minute (M1)" history data for the chart you have open in your terminal (be sure to "double click" the "1 Minute (M1)" selection in the history center so it becomes the active selection)
Step 4) Then left-click once on any of the data rows in the right-hand window of the History Center (it doesn't matter which one)
Step 5) Click the "Add" button, this pops up another window titled "Bar" and the default selection is on the "year"
Step 6) Enter 1970
Step 7) Then select "OK"... and it creates a new bar with the timestamp and price info you just added.
Step 8) Now select "Close" in the History Center
Step 9) Navigate to your M1 chart of interest and then from the terminal window (press Ctrl-T) select "Journal "-> go to the main chart window and right-click the mouse button and select "Refresh"...this will refresh the chart and attempts to fill any time gaps in the chart data (which now includes your year 1970 data point) with server data
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The chart will now have pulled anywhere between 2048 and 65536 M1 bars from your broker's server (not Metaquotes), which is usually more data than you can manually scroll back in time when you manually scroll your M1 chart.
If everything went smoothly... then you've quickly downloaded all the broker's M1 data on your currency pair that the broker can let you have. This is much faster than holding down the home or page-up key for minutes and minutes to get even fewer data. Now, you may continue with the rest of the timeframes. Once more history is downloaded, be sure to delete any 1970 dummy tick data. Next, you may need to verify that after the deletion (1970 record) the maximum historical data has been obtained, otherwise add the 1970 record again.
Note (for first-time users): The v2v dynamic system must grow with the MT4 platform as it requires a broad tick data history.
Once the platform gathers enough data, the system will no longer display an error message (viewed via Expert logs). Such as..."not enough tick data to calculate", "data horizon breach", and "array out of range".
