How to run Strategy Tester faster in MT4?

Hi guys.

Is there some way how to run Strategy Tester (Model - Every Tick) faster?
Because right now I have speed set up to the 32 but it is still not to fast ( running 15M chart and it takes about 3-4 mins to do one whole day).
When I use (Model - Only Open Candle) it is very fast several months it takes about few sec!!! But I need Every Tick model because my EA check conditions on several TFs...
Can anybody help how I can get faster results? What exactly is important for Strategy Tester?? CPU power or Internet speed?

Thanks

In fact there's alot of things involved in the backtest speed.

As an example, it's important if your strategy trades only on candle closed to use a filter to avoid checking all your entry/exit conditions each tick.

Problem is that I must run Every Tick model because I have 15/5M combo EA which first looks on 15M conditions and then it switch to 5M conditions. If I run only open candle model it is not working correct because it will give me only alerts when conditions happened exactly on open candle in UTF which for me is 15M... But if there are on conditions on mid candle it will not alert me

Other than running in open only mode there is not much you can do. Internet speed has nothing to do with Strategy Tester unless your EA is dependent on it. CPU speed and more memorry will improve the speed. You should log out of MT4 before running stategy tester to free any memory leaks. Also close other programs that are memory hogs like Excel. Another trick I have used effectively is to use another broker who has less tick volume such as Go Markets.

the only thing you can do is move to a stronger computer or optimize your code. are there operations you can save?

Why not rewrite your code to run on the one minute chart. Using only the open price
You can then do your analysis on any time frame by counting the bars.
Then run tester on the open of M1 and you get a pretty good set of test results.
In this way your EA only runs on the opens and so the test results are a better approximation of what you would get trading

Don't do stuff on each tick that you don't need to, if you are not looking at bar 0 then there is no point checking bar 1 and earlier each tick, nothing will have changed . . .

Read this thread it may help: http://forum.mql4.com/54831