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 JForex is software for Forex trading from Ducascopy. Their program allows you to download market data, including tick data. You can see how to import this data in our [[fsbpro_guide:jforex_import_help|Importing JForex Data]] tutorial. JForex is software for Forex trading from Ducascopy. Their program allows you to download market data, including tick data. You can see how to import this data in our [[fsbpro_guide:jforex_import_help|Importing JForex Data]] tutorial.
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 **Market closing hour on Friday; Market opening hour on Sunday**  – it is a characteristic of the JForex data, that it includes records over the weekend, where there are either zero-movement bars or some big spikes in the price movement. The data in the weekend is not real and therefore it is not suitable for backtesting. This is why we set closing and opening time, when converting the data and filter those bars out. FSB Pro will try to detect those bars on its own, but we recommend to double check. **Market closing hour on Friday; Market opening hour on Sunday**  – it is a characteristic of the JForex data, that it includes records over the weekend, where there are either zero-movement bars or some big spikes in the price movement. The data in the weekend is not real and therefore it is not suitable for backtesting. This is why we set closing and opening time, when converting the data and filter those bars out. FSB Pro will try to detect those bars on its own, but we recommend to double check.
  
-How to double check: In our practice, it is at 21 o’clock when the market closes at Friday and when it opens on Sunday. We cannot be sure what those hours are for your time zone, but you can easily get them from JForex while running it and set the proper values in the JForex Import tool.+How to double check: In our practice, it is at 21 o’clock when the market closes at Friday and when it opens on Sunday. We cannot be sure what those hours are for your time zone, but you can get them from JForex while running it and set the proper values in the JForex Import tool.
  
 **Maximum number of bars to import** – will filter the data up to this amount of bars. **Maximum number of bars to import** – will filter the data up to this amount of bars.
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 If there are too many bars in a file, you will see:  If there are too many bars in a file, you will see: 
-  * Cutting out – how many bars are trimmed from the end of the file+  * Cutting out – how many bars have been trimmed from the end of the file
   * Remaining – how many bars have been converted to FSB Pro usable data; the Remaining bars will be saved to a file too;   * Remaining – how many bars have been converted to FSB Pro usable data; the Remaining bars will be saved to a file too;
  
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