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Re[2]: Multicharts optimization bug


  • Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:27:43 -0700
  • From: SC <secaseba@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Multicharts optimization bug

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

Thanks I will have a look at it, I don't know how they can use
easylanguage without tradestation sicking their lawyers onto them, but
if multicharts has been around since 2004 then that has probably been
resolved.
SC

C> 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.
>>