The browsers reduces the performance on the inactive tabs in order to safe resources for the active one. This is valid for all browsers. They even reduces the performance of the minimized tabs.

To have the full potential of EA Studio, you can open it in different copies of the browser.

Please note that, when you use multiple application copies, the last closed overrides the local settings and Collections. You have to export the Collections before closing the tabs.

Hi, I will add my grain of salt. Hope it's useful.

I'm currently running 20 simultaneous instances of EAS. I have a dual-processor Xeon Workstation and decided to use no more than 20 because that keeps the cpu usage around 75%. Didn't want to stress the machine beyond that.

What I do is open the 20 Chrome windows and then rename them with numbers using a nice Chrome app called 'Simple Tab Renamer' (very recommendable).

Then I input the settings for every window (normally the same ones for all) and let them run.

After having the EAS instances ready, I right click the Windows task bar and choose 'Show windows stacked' or 'Show windows side by side'. That creates a nice arrangement that keeps them active. I have an ultra-wide 34 inches monitor, that has enough real state for that. For smaller screens maybe 20 instances is probably too many, but that can be solved with the virtual desktop mentioned before.

Once they are arranged, I click EAS menu on each window and scroll down a little bit, so I can see how many strategies have been added to each collection.

Just a note. If you want windows to arrange numerically your windows, you have to click each window in reverse order before arranging them. You can repeat it anytime in case they are not correctly arranged.

This method has helped me to increase a lot the strategies generation rate.

Hope it helps.

Best regards,

mw

PS: I'm attaching a screenshot of my setup for you to see what I mean.

Hi,

Exactly. I do it in order to generate the biggest number of strategies and then proceed to pick the best ones. If I had a more powerful computer I would use 30 or 40, no doubt.

Currently I'm only working with EURUSD cause it has the lowest spreads and it's the most liquid pair. About the timeframe, I'm using H4 for the sake of speed. Not really my favorite, but it gives me a reasonable generation rate. I've tried smaller timeframes, but things go much slower -I'm using 15 years of history data-

Hope it helps,

Best regards,

mw

Hi there,

Actually I got my workstation for 1000 dollars -plus import taxes- in Amazon -with 96GB of RAM- (second hand), so it's probably cheaper that your own computer . There are amazing deals in Amazon, worth taking a look.

What I do is download the entire collection from each instance. As you know, there is a 100 strategies limit in every collection, so they keep changing once they reach this limit.

I do some "harvesting" each 24 hrs. That is, I download the collections again every morning and rename them using a version nomenclature (1, 1.2, 1.3, etc)

Then, in a new instance of EAS, I upload all the collections that I've collected using the Validator and apply different acceptance criteria and robustness tests, trying to get a nice, smooth Portfolio balance / equity curve. When I see something that I like, I save the collection and create the Portfolio Expert Advisor. (Important here is to write down of all the parameters of your created collections / portfolios somewhere, otherwise you end up with a mess not knowing which is what)

Normally, I ask for a single criterium in the collection generation -in order to maintain the generation rate as fast as possible- but I get stricter when it comes to validation, because here is where you want to put stress into your strategies.

This is a workflow I developed in order to achieve both speed and have things organized. Guess some fellow traders have different approaches, but for me this is working well so far.

Cheers,

mw