Wow -- the new MultiCharts beta is GREAT

[Andrew Kirillov]

Quote from WD40:

you call it detachable windows? anyway you can see an example with QuoteTracker. This is the standard way to go now a days. Especially useful if you have multiple monitors, you can move the chart windows anywhere you want. With MC, if I want to move the chart to another monitor, I have to first close the chart in the first monitor, then open the chart again in another monitor. Of course you know what would happen with MC -- I get a pacing violation and MultiCharts hangs up for 15 minutes.

Yes. We understand each other. The detachable windows will be available in MultiCharts 2.2.

 

[WD40]

this looks pretty good. I haven't tried it though. Don't know where to begin. The MultiChart documentation is very limited.

http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=4011

Quote from Marina Pashkova

PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:15 pm
Post subject: Genetic Optimization vs. Exhaustive (Brute Force) Optimization.

1. Genetic Optimization is hundreds of times faster. Calculations that might take years and even centuries in exhaustive search would only take days in genetic. Exhaustive optimization goes through all the possible combinations which usually takes a lot of time (especially if you are adapting many rules and parameters). Genetic optimization, on the other hand, only focuses on improtant areas of solutions space. It quickly narrows the number of combinations to be calculated by focusing on the areas that are most profitable and most stable.

2. Genetic optimization helps to avoid the curve-fitting trap. Exhaustive search yield the optimum results under very specific conditions which might not necessarily occur again. Genetic optimization provides more universally applicable solutions.

Genetic algorithm is a widely used search technique and there are a lot of sources covering the technique. You could research this issue further using the multitude of sources.

As for the best parameters for genetic research in MultiCharts - reading the relevent section of MultiCharts Help could be a good start.

 

[Andrew Kirillov]

Quote from WD40:

this looks pretty good. I haven't tried it though. Don't know where to begin. The MultiChart documentation is very limited.

http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=4011

For further information please see:
GALib : http://lancet.mit.edu/ga/

http://lancet.mit.edu/galib-2.4/References.html

The most useful book on the list:
Genetic Algorithms in Search and Optimization
David Edward Goldberg, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1989
ISBN 0-201-15767-5

 

[WD40]

Andrew:

Thanks for the detachable window update and the link to genetic optimization.

 

[dgloba]

Quote from WD40:

Andrew:

Thanks for the detachable window update and the link to genetic optimization.

My pleasure!