Data usage during backtest

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  • #51753

    I live on a boat and so have to rely on a 4G contract for my internet connection with a monthly limit on data usage. I’ve been backtesting strategies this last weekend and noticed that I was getting through an awful lot of my data allowance. I just installed Glasswire to monitor this and ran a backtest – PRT shockingly used almost 200MB for just one backtest run! I had not noticed this amount of usage previously – has something changed?

    Is there any way to reduce this consumption?

    If not can PRT consider developing a way that we can download data for testing once rather than every time that a backtest is run?

    #51755

    A feature to export data would be great. So one could analyze the data with for example matlab.

    #52095

    200mb of data usage is enormous, but theoretically possible though if it was an optimisation with many many orders …

    #52482

    From further testing it seems that if I have lots of optimization variables and lots of tick by tick data that needs analysing then data usage is massive. One or two variables at a time and not too many orders in the strategy and it drops off  – but is still too high for my liking and too high for my GB purchasing wallet!  The ability to download just once data for a market and then run multiple optimizations would be a fantastic addition to PRT for those of us that live a little off grid  – i.e where fibre optics can’t ever get. Wires are old technology PRT must embrace us wireless folks!

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