Broker historical data files (let's help each other)
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:39 am
Hello everyone! I'm new on this forum, because I've read some good reviews about this forum, so I decided to write it here and I hope we can make something good and useful out of it.
The thing is everyone has problems with not having much historical data from the broker these days and everyone is searching for tick data, probably from another broker, which I think isn't so good if you are trying to backtest your strategy or expert advisor. I have the same problem by the way.
If you make an account with a broker, in the beginning you don't get a lot of data (some brokers do have their own tick data storage), I mean mostly lower time frame data (M1,M5,M15), but the longer you use your account, the more tick data you have and you can use it with you backtesting. That is very important thing while backtesting, to have all the history data you need on all timeframes.
So I though we could help each other with posting the data collection (CSV Excel files), if that is not allowed on the forum, we can do it on private, but I think it's good to help each other with this.
There are many traders on this forum, who have their accounts for long time, so I think they have many more data on use than newer traders.
I use IC MARKETS account and I don't have much tick data, that's why I got that idea, if anyone is interested to help us newer traders to get as much data as possible, that would we awesome.
*Thank you for your help*
Regards, Klemen
The thing is everyone has problems with not having much historical data from the broker these days and everyone is searching for tick data, probably from another broker, which I think isn't so good if you are trying to backtest your strategy or expert advisor. I have the same problem by the way.
If you make an account with a broker, in the beginning you don't get a lot of data (some brokers do have their own tick data storage), I mean mostly lower time frame data (M1,M5,M15), but the longer you use your account, the more tick data you have and you can use it with you backtesting. That is very important thing while backtesting, to have all the history data you need on all timeframes.
So I though we could help each other with posting the data collection (CSV Excel files), if that is not allowed on the forum, we can do it on private, but I think it's good to help each other with this.
There are many traders on this forum, who have their accounts for long time, so I think they have many more data on use than newer traders.
I use IC MARKETS account and I don't have much tick data, that's why I got that idea, if anyone is interested to help us newer traders to get as much data as possible, that would we awesome.
*Thank you for your help*
Regards, Klemen