I’m having trouble saving my own trading systems within ProRealTime.
I can write and test a program and it seems to save and appear in my list of ‘back testing & automatic Trading’
But if I close ProRealTime all my hard work is lost and it seems to have disappeared. The ‘back testing & automatic Trading’ still contains systems I have down loaded, but none of the systems I have programmed.
I’m launching prorealtime from the IG platform on a mac.
Am I missing something obvious?
How are you supposed to save trading systems?
ThanksSaving Trading
You have to save your template when quitting or once in a while during session by hitting CTRL+S (or File / Save). Otherwise, any change will not be saved in the cloud.
I´m on PC and it doesn´t work to save templates!!!
-I have tried every way to save!
-Thought for a while that it worked the first time the template was saved, but I was wrong…
-I have two accounts and it´s the same problem on both = very annoying! If I for example have Three Equity curves on one instrument and then saves, maybe one of the curves remain. The is not a new problem, it´s been the same thing since I started using PRT one year ago.
I have been working the last week on setting up my new premium account and tried to organize templates in PRT with the right algos for specific instruments, all work in vain…
Three Equity curves on one instrument
So you mean 3 Systems giving 3 separate equity curves?
I will try for you now on mine and let you know.
Right … I had 3 Systems producing 3 separate equity curves and I Quit and clicked Yes to save Template.
I logged back in and 2 Systems / 2 equity curves showing.
The System / equity curve that did not show after logging back in was the System I had been optimising. This system had been saved okay in the Backtesting & Autotrading.
Does above help?
In my opinion, it is logical for Systems under active backtest / optimise to not appear after Quit and Login?
Reason: Systems are prevented from going straight into optimise backtest and needlessly wasting PRT server power?
I had entered / saved my variable values (from opti-results) but for the Platform backend to know … which active optimised systems results had been saved and which not saved … would be a big ask??
lost more code, It has happened to me again 🙁
I have been control s saving when using the “Backtesting & Automatic Trading – Trade system creation” but code lost for no apparent reason. There is no ‘save as’ function and no list of past items of saved code and I can see no way to retrieve it.
I have taken to copying my code to a word document every now and then. I can’t help think I’m missing something?
best wishes.
I’ve been doing the same since I first used PRT, I use NotePad++ to accomplish the job PLUS I export the .ITF file as well, as an additional safety measure. I do this multiple times a day.
This seems to be a very common problem, lost many programs in past. Now, as a rule of thumb, I export any code I write to my local machine. If it disappears from PRT, it is just a click away.
However, PRT team need to look into this seriously, as saving Template also means whatever has been added to already saved template also gets saved. eg, I may have a perfectly tuned a template but it will be overwritten with new changes if saved, and PRT code still not getting saved many times.
Right … I had 3 Systems producing 3 separate equity curves and I Quit and clicked Yes to save Template. I logged back in and 2 Systems / 2 equity curves showing. The System / equity curve that did not show after logging back in was the System I had been optimising. This system had been saved okay in the Backtesting & Autotrading. Does above help?
2 Equity curves still showing – thats like winning the lottery! 🙂
For me it isn´t systems I have been optimizing that doesn´t stay in the saved template. I haven´t lost any code, the systems get saved as they should, I Always perform a backtest after any Changes in the code.
The problem for me is that I want to save different systems equity curves on a instrument to later on easily click that template and know what i´ve been working on and see performance.
How are you trying to save the equity curves?
Maybe you are not doing it correct?
If I can save equity curves and you cant save equity curves then you must not be doing same as I am doing??
I want to save different systems equity curves on a instrument
You could only do this if the Systems are stored in the Backtest & AutoTrading window … so are they??
You could only do this if the Systems are stored in the Backtest & AutoTrading window … so are they??
I haven´t lost any code, the systems get saved as they should in the Backtest & AutoTrading window. My problem is that I can´t save templates. Well I can save teplates but not with the Equity curves still there.
I´m now looking at some of the templates i´ve made on my new account in the past 3 Days. Many of them are saved with the wrong instrument also, and without or missing Equity curves. I Think this is a basic function that should work…
