Amount of data always defaults to 10K
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When Backtesting, the amount of data we receive is always 10K. Why ? Why does the whole platform nicely saves the amount of data per chart but not with BackTesting ? As soon as we “restart” a Chart, there’s the 10K again. Please solve this annoying little issue.
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I may be misunderstanding? I can see sense in the default 10k bars?
You understand correctly 🙂
But when you work with 1 second strategies, this makes no sense.If, for example, in our previous session, we Quit and Saved on 100k bars backtest, then when we all / lots of us clicked Login in the morning and then went and got our breakfast there would be 1000’s of backtests (from 1M PRT uses worldwide) all competing for PRT server time to get to 100k bars backtest (that we last saved on) ??
Although that makes very much sense, … if I want my 1M backtest back I will ask for that anyway. And btw, the 1M coincidentally is preserved (it is special because it (History) opens in its own new Chart. But talk 200K and your text makes as much sense.
On a side note, I saw this issue passing in this forum several times. This is why I put it in there (it is not on my own list). Point here is (or could be) : quite some reasons exist to restart the platform, especially with BackTesting. And now it could happen that you are staring to strange figures because the BackTest is automatically re-applied after the restart. But the result won’t be much what you were used to. And you can’t really see it either. Only if you fell into that pitfall a dozen times, you will know definitely.If PRT considers your concern, they will judge it like that and reject. So, good that you brought it up !
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