Tickstory

Hi,
I use the Tickstory in a few weeks.
But i found that,every time when i start doing the backtest and click the start button,my computer is going the "stuck",the disk I/O is very high,in a few minutes,i can do nothing...
So,am i do some mistake?Or how do i optimization my computer for a quickly backtest?

Hi Slosh,

The best advise would firstly be to test with 'MACD Sample' to compare the back-test times. It is likely that your EA is taking some time to process all the tick data. Bear in mind that your program will run for every tick which can be quite CPU intensive considering there are millions of ticks in a year of historical data. You may need to consider ways of improving your test speeds such as:

- Performing short sample runs and/or;
- Performing a preliminary run using Open price mode (if applicable to your EA) and then fine tuning parameters for a run with tick data and/or;
- Changing your code so it does not process every tick (assuming this would not affect your results dramatically).

Hope this helps.