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Acquire free historical tick data for Forex and CFD symbols from multiple quality sources.

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Store all your tick data in a single location, manage it in one place yet have it ready to use across all your terminals.

Backtest & export

Run accurate backtests directly without manually handling files. Access all advanced settings easily. Export the data to any trading platform.

Why Tick Data?

Metatrader 4 backtesting uses prices that are randomly generated from bar data. By a process of interpolation, it uses the bar price data together with the tick count to generate the prices for each bar so that they start at the bar open price, touch the bar high and low, ending at the close price. If a position has both its SL and its TP within a bar's price range, it's a coin toss whether it will hit stop/loss or take profit.

With the Tick Data Suite, actual price ticks are used. Nothing is left to chance - your backtests will use the prices that were historically traded and recorded tick by tick, oftentimes more than once per second.

Advanced configuration at your fingertips

Ever wanted to change the backtest leverage?
Or perhaps the minimum lot, the commission or the stopout?
How about the GMT offset or the daylight saving time configuration?
With the Tick Data Suite, it is now possible to configure all the above and more: swaps, stop levels, margin details, you name it - TDS has it.

What's New?

Using Metatrader 5 tick data in Metatrader 4 backtesting

Using the latest Tick Data Suite version it is possible to import data from CSV files. This enables using a variety of data sources that can export to such a format and particularly Metatrader 5, which can prove to be a good opportunity for people with live MT4 accounts at brokers that also have MT5 servers - the tick data collected by the broker can be exported from MT5 and used in MT4 backtesting.

The Tick Data Suite can now import custom tick data

The new Tick Data Suite beta version adds the ability to import custom tick data. The whole import process relies on automatic detection that can handle everything starting from the symbol name and digits and ending with the actual format of the file being imported. Even the GMT and DST of the imported data can be automatically identified, making it very easy to import data from other applications (such as Metatrader 5) and use it in your MT4 backtests.

Using execution delay slippage with the Tick Data Suite

Execution delay slippage might seem straightforward at first, but it is actually a feature that is tricky to use. This article goes through the particularities and gotchas while attempting to also offer some insight on how to figure out the slippage associated with your live account.

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