SQ X updates

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the same setting with M5 M30 time frame, I found initially when i started the CPU with 98% usage , but after couple of hours , it drops to 10% , i may related to memory setting? after i changed  the memory to max instead of 8GB, CPU up to 50%， still  not as high as should be .

@yourrodstaff,  I have the same problem on 2 sessions it drops after a couple of hours to close to nothing when running Gen Evo. But CPU usage is high when i add all Heiken Ashi indicators .

@jmtc1230 ,  You can also try to set the initial population ranking options to say win% 40 .This will fill up the Islands with “okey” strategies then it will only work with these and i get alot more good strategies in the data bank alot faster. Allthought you get alot of strategies with same entries but different exits which you can use WFA to kill of in crosschecks since it changes the exits. Doing this i have more then a hundred strategies from only today in the data bank that passed all crosschecks.

Good idea.  Thanks Mabi.

Hi.

I’d just like to let you know that it’s crashing on my system.
After the popup (attached) the popup just closes and that’s the end of that.

I’ve check EVENT VIEWER and there isn’t even a Notification or error message in there.
Also tried a bunch of things including setting to Administrative mode and Windows 8 mode.

I’m running W10 btw and up till this point all SQ4 versions worked.

Hey Mark can we get a very simple function built into crosschecks?

This would be: Number of additional markets tests resulting in greater than zero $.  Value is “3” for example

I just did a little study and found that if a strategy can be greater than zero in net profit on 3 additional markets it has a much higher probability of passing MC and other tests.  The key is that is doesnt really matter which markets pass, just that 3 do out of 6 for example.

Hi Mark, SQ4 – RC3 is looking great, I just installed it !  May I ask a data size related question ?  That is, if I download the tick data from tickdownloader, the folder size of SQ4 will be increased accordingly.  In order to save the limited disk space of the main drive, I am mounting external portable harddisk for data storage only via USB port.  Is it possible to assign the downloaded data to be stored in the external drive, where SQ4 calls out the data file from this external data storage during the program runs ?t

Hi Mark, the new feature of Mutli-TF / Multi-Symbol is excellent, thanks !  I have been thinking of trading the 5 minutes bar, while the strategy would take both the 5 minutes and 60 minutes bars, for example, into considerations.  This feature perfectly fits this purpose, thanks !  In addition to that, I had thought about Multi-indicator before.  That is, a nested combination of indicators during the genetic algorithm runs.  Currently, as far as I saw, SQ3 and SQ4 beta generates combinations of strategies nicely already on +/-/*/>/<  signs.  For example,  Buy/Sell when close > moving average of X periods + Average True Range(Y periods), or, Buy/Sell when RSI(n periods) on Close > 70. etc.

What if, we can nest some of these indicators ?  Take combination of MA and RSI as example.  Buy/Sell when RSI(n periods) of Moving Average(Close, x periods) > 30.  The formula would be something like RSI( Average(Close, X), N).  The trading performance may work better in some circumstances.  Thus far, I have seen GA generated combinations of  +/-/* , but haven’t come across with nested results.  Not sure if it’s too late to suggest this nested feature, if it’s not in the GA already.  Thanks !

Hats of to Dev team. You are really fast in fixing bugs. I think RC4 will be great !

Hello,

I’d like to announce that we are postponing release of SQ4 RC4 by one week to next Friday (22nd June).

It was supposted to be released today, but we are implementing two more complex improvements that should lead to better stability and performance, and we need some more time.

I’m sorry for this delay, but it gives us time to fix more issues in the new release.

Thank you for your hardwork Mark..I am currently using my brother’s Strategy Quant 3.8.2 that he bought sometime ago..I am waiting for you to fix all the bugs in the latest Strategy Quant(SQ4 RC4) so that I can also buy and start building robust strategies ..Please Mark , you need to make sure that the latest version is 100% bug free because we dont need errors in our backtests and robustness tests..Errors in backtests can cause big losses in live account.. I wanted to buy SQ 3.8.2 but when my brother told me it had some bugs after he had bought it , i changed my mind not to buy but wait for 100% bug free version..Please do your best to make sure latest SQ is 100% bug free.Thank you.

I had hoped for SQ4 RC4 with evrything that was fixed this week. That would have worked fine for me. It is already good and i would buy 2 more with even with the bugs if i had the hardware to support it. 🙂

I guess where are problems that would compromise RC4 so it was postponed. I liked 2 week release schedule with unfinished items moved to next release.

I agree and the more stuf that is working the easier it is to find new bugs. Today i tried the optimiser section of the program for the first time. Alot of bugs in that section as well it seems . Doing WFM It asked for settings but there is none to fill in that made it work.

Just to confirm… cross checks retest on additional markets is always IS correct? Or is it entire sample?

@John Conney,

very interesting. I have never seen bug free software.

You can test Version 4.X and report Bugs. If you want make mony you can use

version 3.8.2. This version is stable (but not bug free 🙂 )