Periodically re-generated EA style

Hi,
(Posted in regular SQ forum, but am posting this in pre-sales also because the demonstration of process thru the different SQ tools may be of interest to prospective buyers 🙂
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Has anyone tried 2yrs worth of 1hr bars from your mt4 broker server for SQ EA live trading success yet?
I remembered to use “page up” with chart unchecked for scrolling to “pull down” from broker server all the backdata they have for us, consequently at FXCM I have 2yrs worth of 1hr bars for eurusd & audusd, the ones that I tried this on so far.
Am running thru my usual many days random followed by overnight on genetic followed by improver (maybe this last cycle is more than once) and finally optimize, amazing when you think about it all these tools to carve out the best.
Got only a single thread on my $30/mo CNS server, but 2yrs 1hr bar-open-only is very fast on it, but I do use memory limitation startup option.

Guess I’m just chattin’, don’t know if final result will be usable as trying this idea a couple times long ago of just X months of backdata to use for only Y weeks or months of live trading is viable or not, however, this 2yrs is larger than my previous attempts in this mode/hope wherein I think I had only 9mo, soooo, its a big *maybe*.

Anyone try this style before? Only once on some other strategy-generator-forum did I see someone claim they had success in this mode, too bad I didn’t keep that url around. 🙁

My mt4 w/ fxcm is for live real acct, thus so is the data, with volume data in the backdata too. What I do to test out such mode is run the test forward each day while checking to see if I should be running another EA generation.

If such modus-operandi could be good it sure is behooving not having to buy an i7-4770 eh!? Lol.
Best,
Jerry

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh  Thanks, now I understand….

 

That would mean that you do not need a bank of computers in your living room…. lol

 

I did have the program on a demo a year or so ago, my computer would not handle the load…… so I am attempting to decide what configuration I require.

 

Thanks very much.

 

daveM

Sure.. I have stopped upgrading my computer all the time, I just rent a newer dedicated server if needed. They are cheap at Contabo and very powerful and once the hardware has become to old, you just rent a new one with newer hardware for the same price:)

Sure.. I have stopped upgrading my computer all the time, I just rent a newer dedicated server if needed. They are cheap at Contabo and very powerful and once the hardware has become to old, you just rent a new one with newer hardware for the same price:)

I figured I was going to have to invest in some whopper of a machine……  You have helped me a bundle!

 

Thanks

 

daveM