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Comparison with similar products
This page answers one question: what features does each have. We write facts, with no ranking and no claim about which is better.
The Tick Data Suite (TDS) column comes from its public documentation and from our own hands-on observation of it on our own computer; the mttick column is the product as it is now. Products change. This page was written on 2026-10-16 and may be out of date; what the other side publishes takes precedence.
Features side by side
| Feature | mttick | Tick Data Suite |
|---|---|---|
| Real ticks in the MT4 strategy tester | ✓ | ✓ |
| Variable spread, tick by tick | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spread multiplier and minimum spread | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fill slippage | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commission, leverage, lot limits, stop-out level | ✓ | ✓ |
| Swap, freeze level, margin mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Renko, Range and Tick bars | ✓ | ✓ |
| Heikin-Ashi bars | — | ✓ |
| Time zone and daylight saving: none, US, Europe | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daylight saving: Australia, Russia | — | ✓ |
| Switched on when MT4 opens (through a Windows system setting) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Side-by-side comparison of run records | ✓ | — |
| Modelling quality shown in the report | — | ✓ |
| MT5 | — | In development |
| Optimization mode | Not supported yet | Not tested |
✓ has it, — does not. "Not tested" means we have not tested it. In mttick's report the "modelling quality" field currently shows n/a.
Where the approach differs
| mttick | Tick Data Suite | |
|---|---|---|
| Data source | Public historical ticks from Dukascopy and Exness | Dukascopy (a subscription mirror) |
| Getting the data | Compressed daily blocks downloaded as needed when you press Start, shared by several MT4 copies | Downloaded in its data manager program, then updated in MT4; usually tens of GB |
| History for multi-timeframe EAs | Nine timeframes built from the same ticks when preparing; the broker's history files are not changed by a byte | It maintains a history store of its own, one set per time zone and daylight saving combination |
| When the dates do not match | The tick box shows the prepared window live; out-of-range dates are aligned automatically, and a dialog appears if nothing is prepared | MT4 switches to its own data without telling you (it warns only for a few common configuration mistakes) |
| When something goes wrong | The status is written beside the tick box and in the mttick window | In our observation, failures are mostly silent |
| Windows on ARM | Checked in a Windows 11 ARM64 (x86 emulation) virtual machine | In our observation, the installer refuses ARM CPUs |
These rows are our own observations and may be wrong in places. If we have got something wrong, please tell us.
Tickstory
We have not tested Tickstory and have no comparison material for it, so this page does not list it. To compare, please read its own documentation.
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