Topic: EA Studio Data Export.mq4 - problem on my broker's Real account data
Hi there
Firstly wishing you all a happy, healthy and very prosperous New Year! : )
I'm having a problem exporting Real Account data from my broker to try out the Generator in EA Studio - which I see appears to require .json files.
- I'm curious how/if it differs from the Generator in FSB Pro. I have watched the Tutorials - "Create a Strategy that Profits for 6 Months" and "5. Generating Expert Advisors - EA Studio User Guide" - so have done a little homework and some trial and error 'process of elimination' attempts before asking here..
EA Studio Data Export.mq4 - doesn't work on my broker's Real account data but works fine on a Demo account's data.
The Currency Pair symbol names on the Real account display in the MT4 'Market Watch panel' as e.g. EURUSD.. vs. in the Demo account EURUSD - with no dots. The corresponding .hst files in the MT4/History folder are named this way too:
On a Real Account: EURUSD..60.hst and Demo Account: EURUSD60.hst
I was helped in the past to learn how to easily resolve this problem when manually exporting files into FSB Pro as .cvs files: they simply need to be renamed to remove the 2 x extra dots.
So, the only thing I can think of is the Data Export script doesn't recognize the .hst files named with the 2 x extra dots?
I'm not a programmer.. so looking through the source code - I can't easily see anything I can change regarding this.
- perhaps there is some way to easily resolve this e.g. if I can be shown how to make a small alteration to the source code?
e.g. here maybe?
{
RefreshRates();
for (int p = 0; p < ArraySize(periods); p++)
{
string fileName = _Symbol + PeriodToStr(periods[p]) + ".json";
string data = GetSymbolData(_Symbol, periods[p]);
SaveFile(fileName, data);
}
(I would prefer to use my broker's Real Account data because I've noticed [my] systems perform worse/differently on Real vs. Demo account data, for whatever reasons...)
Any advice much appreciated.
Thank you.