Optimsation - Number of Combinations

Hey

I'm playing around with the strat Tester a little bit.

What is the number in brackets? I'd imagine it's the real number
of combinations (I'm using 6 variabels with 1 steep increments and a wide range ). Why is it only doing 10.000 runs?

Another question: The Help Menu recommends to use "Controll Points" not "Every Tick" for Optimisation. Why?

HA!! Its gonna do 10,496 runs!! out of 3,006,865,680 - When you do over 200+ runs... for some reason it scales the number down to what I assume it thinks will be similar results. The fact though is that a lot of the runs you wont see could be some of the most profitable ones. I ALWAYS do my opts where I will see EVERY run!! - increase the step size, reduce the range, etc.....

Hmm gonna have to build some PS3 Super Computing Grid....

I'll let it do 10.000 Test and hopefully will see some pattern in the Optimisation Graph. After that I will finetune some more. I've kicked out the Stoploss because it's not relevant if you want to optimize for Balance.
... Now it's only 140 Million. ^^

Use genetic optimization...

Use a large step size to figure out which range to use.

Then use the smaller range with a smaller step size.

R