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Double click on the currency pair that you want to download. If the icon next to the timeframe is colored, the prices for that timeframe can be seen and edited in the preview window on the right. When MetaTrader 4 downloads data, it downloads 1-minute data, then translates that into the other timeframes.

So if you want to get broker specific data or you want to get more historical data than what MetaQuotes provides, then you will have to use a broker-specific version of MT4, or import a custom file. Contact your broker to get this data or I have a list of resources at the end of this post.

By double-clicking on the time frames with the gray icons, it will take a few seconds to generate the preview for the prices for that time frame. The number of records is shown at the top of the screen. To download the complete history for a currency pair, highlight the pair and click on the Download button. It may take a few minutes to download the data, especially if you have never done it before. There will be a green status bar at the bottom of the screen to show you the progress of the current download.

Once the data is downloaded you should notice that there are more records in the database. You can see this in the database record count at the top of the screen. For any time period, you can change any of the data for each bar. First highlight the line you want to change, on the right side of the screen. Then click on the Edit button to change a candle, Delete to remove and Add to insert your own data. This is useful for fixing bad data from your broker, which can happen once in awhile.

Fixing the data manually will clean up your charts and make your automated backtesting more accurate. You can also click on the Import button to upload your own data or the Export button will allow you to get a Forex historical data download in a CSV file that you can use in another charting program. This file can also be used in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel to do custom data analysis. Once you download all of the currency pair data, you may be surprised how far back the data actually goes.

If here is a downside to getting all of this data though, it is that it can take up a fair amount of space on your hard drive. So if you have a small SSD, are running a virtual machine, or you are running out of room on your drive, be selective about which pairs you download data for. Luckily there's also a way to limit the number of bars that are downloaded in your history. How to Manually Limit the Amount of Downloaded Data If you don't need all of the historical data on each currency pair and you want to save disk space, then you should set a limit on the amount of data that your MT4 install downloads.

Just reduce this number by using the drop-down menu or manually change the number. How to Increase the Amount of Downloaded Data If disk space is not a concern, then you should download as much data as possible. When downloading historical data on MT4, the app downloads the data from the history center of MetaQuotes. Since these are price data provided by MetaQuotes, they will not match the price data provided by the actual forex broker.

In MT5, there is no history center. All price data comes directly from each forex broker. However, please note that some of their old data may come from price data provided by MetaQuotes.