Exporting MetaTrader 5 Rate and Tick History to CSV

Summary

This document explains a script for exporting historical rates and tick data from the symbol shown on the current MetaTrader 5 chart. It addresses a limitation in the platform’s built-in export facility, which may omit available tick history, by allowing users to save the full available history or a selected date range in the standard CSV format.

The script writes two CSV files to the platform’s data Files folder: one for rates and one for ticks. Users can set a start datetime and an exclusive stop datetime; leaving both unset selects all available history. Output filenames include the symbol, the rates timeframe, and the date range. The document describes a data-management utility rather than a trading method, and it offers no evidence about data completeness beyond its stated purpose or about how the exported data should be analyzed.

Key ideas

• The script exports rates and ticks for the current chart symbol into separate CSV files.
• It is intended to address gaps that may occur when exporting tick history through the platform dialog.
• Users can export all available history or constrain the export with start and stop datetimes.
• The stop datetime is excluded from processing, and the output files are saved in the platform’s Files folder.

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