Ark Haven 1 Minute Historical Prices

Ark Haven M1 Historical Prices is a professional-grade cTrader utility designed to reliably export M1 historical bars for a selected symbol into a single, chronologically ordered CSV file.

The cBot safely handles cTrader’s asynchronous history loading mechanism, avoids duplicate data, and includes built-in stall guards to ensure the export completes even when broker history is limited or inconsistent.

This tool is intended for quantitative research, backtesting, data analysis, and external modelling workflows.

🔧 Key Features

• Exports 1-minute (M1) bars to CSV
• Produces chronological output (oldest → newest)
• Supports:
• • Chart symbol or manually specified symbol
  • Custom historical range (years back)
  • Custom output folder
• Robust handling of:
• • Incremental history loading
  • Broker history limits
  • Repeated or stalled history requests
• Automatic merging of partial files into a single final CSV
• Uses UTC timezone for consistency across brokers

⚙️ Parameters

• Use Chart Symbol
  If enabled, exports the symbol of the chart the cBot is attached to.
• Symbol (if not chart)
  Symbol name to export (e.g. XAUUSD) when not using the chart symbol.
• Years Back
  Number of years of historical data to request from the broker (subject to broker availability).
• Max Load Iterations
  Safety limit to prevent infinite history-loading loops.
• Output Folder
  Folder name (under Documents) where CSV files will be written.

📁 Output Format (CSV)

<TICKER>,<DTYYYYMMDD>,<TIME>,<OPEN>,<HIGH>,<LOW>,<CLOSE>,<VOL>
XAUUSD,20190102,000000,1282.45,1283.10,1281.90,1282.75,342

• Timezone: UTC
• Price precision matches the symbol’s digits
• One row per 1-minute bar

🔐 Permissions

This cBot requires Full Access in order to:

• Create folders
• Write CSV files to disk

No network access, credentials, licensing checks, or external connections are used.

👤 Intended Users

• Quantitative traders
• Algorithm developers
• Researchers building external backtests
• Users who need raw M1 data outside cTrader

⚠️ Disclaimer

This cBot is a data export utility only.
It does not place trades, provide trading signals, or make investment decisions.

Historical data availability, completeness, and accuracy depend entirely on the broker’s data feed. The developer does not guarantee that exported data is complete or suitable for any specific trading or investment purpose.

Users are solely responsible for verifying exported data before using it in research, analysis, or live trading systems.

🧠 Developer Notes

This exporter uses a conservative, broker-agnostic approach to history loading and includes multiple safeguards to prevent duplicate rows or infinite load loops. If your broker limits deep historical data, the exporter will gracefully stop and merge all available data.