Supercharged MT4 Backtester

Hello.

My old computer was a P3 800 w/ 256 MB RAM....

I upgraded to a 3 Ghz P4 w/ 2 GB of RAM, thinking that my MT4 backtester would crunch numbers faster.

It doesn't.

My guess is that the backtester synchronizes to the windows clock and not to the CPU clock speed.

How can we get the backtester to run at 100% full clock speed?

tdion,

I don't have hard stats to back this up, but my experience has been the opposite. I've got a "family" pc that's an old 1.3 GHz machine and I'd swear Strat Tester runs go much faster on my speedy Core 2 Duo 2Ghz laptop.

I know this post isn't of much help, but take it for what it's worth.

I think its got a lot to do with the code as well... I read up on the MQL4.community forums (under articles) (and using common sense as well) that a lot of indicators that are available to the public are poorly coded and its quite often down to the fact that the indicator is recalculated for a lot of bars every tick or something along these lines... The computer is probably doing the number crunching much faster but the poor code might be preventing the computer from processing everything any faster. In fact the problem may be so severe and I've experienced it myself... that the computer appears to just stop backtesting. The other thing is... (although I don't think its got anything to with your P4), is if you have like a quad core or something... meta trader I think isnt optimised for these processors yet so (from my limited knowledge and going purely by logic)... a 2ghz single core processor should do the maths just as fast as a quad core 2ghz one simply because the program isnt designed to utilise the extra processors.

Hope that had some info that you were looking for, or it might have just been pointing out the obvious.

I need to correct my post 1. There is improvement.

I am convinced converting my 2 Gb of RAM into a RAM drive will speed up my backtester considerably, as the delay is likely due to HDD speed limitations.

Okay,

I converted my 2 Gb of RAM to a 1 Gb RAM drive, and kept 1 Gb for the processor.

The results were unnoticable.

I have to admit, I was very disappointed. I thought the delay was caused by MT4 accessing data from my HDD. Evidently there is a lot of processing that occurs in RAM.

Funny thing is, I have a RAM monitor, and it never spiked during backtests.

Wish I had more insight into this.

did you use it correctly?
Ram drive is not bad for many programs you need for fast access or you would like to delete data after using or for secrete operatings because of "deleting for ever by shutdown".
and there is an other advantage. RAm will not be so hot that a diskdrive will be. so if you will use you PC over night as a server or trading station with a RAM-drive your computer is very silent.

i never tested for better backtesting time, will do if i have time. can do it with my new computer in the next weeks.

Do you use active Anti-virus or Firewall? Sometime they clogged your PC since they checked each file which opened by Windows. Or check your resident programs. Many software automatically installed live-update feature and suchs, which you don't need and eat up a lot of RAM. Check your task manager to make sure.

hello mt4 people has anyone strategy tested tom demark indicators? td sequentail? tdst? I have no expertise with computers....

IS ANYONE INTERESTED IN DOING SO? I DONT MEAN MOUTEKI I MEAN THE REAL DEAL....

TD LINES 80% accurate

td seq up to 90%

what are we waiting for!? help

Ive been using these for a long time to map the market and do price projections. I have not seen them work as support or resistence 80% of the time and most breaks are false. What technique uses these for an 80% success rate? I am interested in more information regarding this and the TD sequential you mention but I know nothing about

Mouteki uses TD Trendlines and price projections... Not sure what is the real deal you are talking about. TD seq wasn't necessarily made for forex but some traders say it works well on stocks. I happen to use the TD seq setup as a possible exit in one of my recent systems under development.

td indicators on ff suck not the real deal...plus they have not read tds books! heres the deal..... a td level 1 is not 80% accurate but tl will hold for a few pips probaly 70-80% td level 2 tl is 80% according to theory...td did all of his studies on DAILY candles but they work on all timeframes to a lesser extent.....( i havent tested but have made nice pips trading manually.....(on 1 hour) so..... a level 2 is when you have at least 3 points on your trend channel..... but the best way to trade it is multiple time frames...if daily is bouncing off of a tdtl (has already tested and bounced and is still near the bottom of triangel) and then 4 hour is also, how easy is it to trade with the trend of that day hourly off of tdtl?.. its basic 101 channel trading.... thats all it is...also, if it breaks the channel you reverse the trade and take it like a mouteki trade.... so setting advanced orders is essential..... BUT as of now no indicators are good enough...I draw my own

I would love a simple strategy test of this one....just dont know how to do that i aint a computer guy yall then we can take it from there....

regards

does this chart make sense?...all orders were placed in advance!!!!!

the problem is I had to draw the red line..... also, when i combine tdtl and demark new_trend they dont work together


also, they repaint way too much.... too many little triangles... finally i need a tool to put in a "sell line" and a "buy" line.... a triangle within a triangle

chart 1

the top line is the trend line tdlevel 2 (or is it 3 iforget) whatever.... anyway the parrelel line below the top line is the "sell" line since it was a down trend on this pair and we want to be shorting with the trend..... simple but 80% effective (in theory) we need to perfect exactly where that sell line should be and what our sl must be on each trade i want simplicity dont u?

right now i use line chart for a sell line as its eaasier to see and doesnt fool u also use pinbars at the tl line.... check it

all i want is a simple tool to help me with this... and maybe an alarm so i dont have to watch all pairs all the time.... if anyone can help its mucho appreiciated and can benfit us all

think of it as anti-mouteki...since most times the triangle remains intact and does not break out..... and if it does we are hedged in advance with another order........ simple

Why did you turn my MT4 backtester thread into a TD trendline thread?

i am sooooooooo sorry i thought this was a thread for backtesting??? I have no idea how to and found your title supercharged backtest? anyway if you could point me where to go....i will move it happilly

LOL just start a thread for it under Trading Systems or Metatrader Forums.....