How many Multichart chart can you run in one computer

With strategy on each chart? I tried running 30 and it seems fine.

Was thinking whether it can take 300?

Hello maisatomai,

If you are using 64 bit MultiCharts then you are only limited by the amount of RAM you have on your PC.

I have 16GB here. Realistically how many MC charts can I run? Have anyone run a test on it?

Does drawing the ticks consume a lot of resources? If we make the bars invisible, will it help?

It depends on the amount of bars, indicators, signals you are using. Each setup is individual. Hiding the data series will reduce the amount of GDI objects used by MultiCharts, but it will not reduce the amount of memory utilized by the application as the data is still loaded.

My live trading setup has 20 windows. I've stripped everything down to barebones (minimum bars, no indicators, and clean code) and it works okay. Starting up and shutting down consumes a lot of ram. A news announcement takes over the cpu.

all in all, I feel okay with ~20 windows.

I have 16GB here. Realistically how many MC charts can I run? Have anyone run a test on it? Does drawing the ticks consume a lot of resources? If we make the bars invisible, will it help?

If you are looking to run 300 symbols and you are willing to make bars invisible, perhaps you should consider the portfolio trader instead of charts. My tests show that PT consumes ~100 bytes/bar and that is memory for bars only and does not include memory for indicators, trades, reports, etc.