Data usage during backtest

• 11/07/2017 at 12:24 AM #51753
  Vonasi

  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?

  

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  11/07/2017 at 1:07 AM #51755
  Despair

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

  

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  11/09/2017 at 11:42 AM #52095
  Nicolas

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

  

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  11/12/2017 at 10:46 PM #52482
  Vonasi

  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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