ATC FX Pro User Guide

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History Files in FXT Format In its operation, tester uses an *.FXT file with generated succession of bars. Each record of the generated succession represents the bar status at either moment within one bar. When modeling bars, tester takes other bars from this file and updates the current bar or adds another one if it has just begun to be formed. One may refuse to apply the standard bar modeling, but use one's own data file for testing/optimization. To do so, one has to disable "Recalculate" and place the desired FXT file into the /TESTER/HISTORY folder. The file name must appear as "[symbol name][period in minutes]_[type of modeling (0 — every tick, 1 — control points, 2 — open prices)].FXT" (without spaces). For example, it can be "EURUSD1440_1.FXT" where "EURUSD" is the security symbol, "1440" is period of D1 (1440 minutes, 24 hours), and "1" means modeling by control points. A short description of the format is given below. It begins with the header: Then, the array of modeled bars follows: