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Re: Multicharts optimization bug


  • Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:11:00 -0500
  • From: CC <i1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Multicharts optimization bug

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Mike,

What did MC (TSS) support have to say about your problem? They usually respond in a rapid manner.

SC: regarding your question about MultiCharts including the Power Editor - yes it is included in the less expensive version. The $10,000 ver is aimed at institutional firms, and includes custom programming,etc. MC is getting close to releasing it's final version which they call 'Gold'. After that, it appears that the 'Lifetime' license will start to include 'paid' updates if a trader wishes to buy. From the best of my recollection, the price structure was something like the following, keep in mind that until that so called Gold version is released, all of the upgrades have basically been betas and free.
2004 - $99
2005 thru June or July $199
then started an approximate doubling of prices as features increased, to the current $1497.
Why not try the free 30 day trial if interested.?


Mike Symth wrote:
For those who use multicharts I have found the following optimization
bug when an outside DLL is loaded.

If you have a strategy that uses an outside DLL for computation and
that DLL is large...say 1meg then if you do an optimization with 5000
cases then you will get a memory overflow.

I get an out of memory error which means the DLL is not being detached
or unloaded at each optimization case and a new copy is being loaded
at each new optimization case.   The  DLL is approximately 1meg.
Total optimization cases is 5000.  thus the total memory that will be
used is 5gig. Once the memory used reaches 2gig I get an out of memory
error and crash.  when I tried the optimization with a 100K size DLL,
only 500meg of memory was addressed and no crash.