Hi, trader friends and Multicharts team,
I've searched this topic but find nothing, if anyone tried 400+ auto-trade with PT please share your experience.
Anyway, I'm gonna use PT to auto-trade 400~500 symbols, what level of hardware I need? CPU? RAM? Network bandwidth?...
here is some information for you guys could give me some advise, highly appreciated.
if you need further information pls let me know.
Symbols: 400~500
bar interval: 5 min
Strategy: portfolio signal and money management signal (no intra-bar order)
data provider: IQfeed
brokers: IB
cloud service: AWS
Hardware recommendation for 500 symbols [SOLVED]
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Re: Hardware recommendation for 500 symbols [SOLVED]
Hi thomashck,
In general, multi-core CPU increases the optimization speed as this calculation can be divided into multiple flows using multi-core CPU. Multi-core CPU will not increase the backtesting speed as it is a linear calculation procedure and it cannot be divided into parts for calculation. We recommend to give preference to the machines with higher CPU frequency, than to the number of cores: e.g. 8 cores with 3600 base frequency is better than 16 cores with 2300 base frequency.
According to our experience, such number of symbols can be handled with the following setup:
Intel CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads, 3.6 GHz or higher; 32 GB RAM or higher; OS Windows 10 64 bit; multi-monitor solution.
Also we’d recommend to check with your broker if their software is able to handle this number of open positions.
In general, multi-core CPU increases the optimization speed as this calculation can be divided into multiple flows using multi-core CPU. Multi-core CPU will not increase the backtesting speed as it is a linear calculation procedure and it cannot be divided into parts for calculation. We recommend to give preference to the machines with higher CPU frequency, than to the number of cores: e.g. 8 cores with 3600 base frequency is better than 16 cores with 2300 base frequency.
According to our experience, such number of symbols can be handled with the following setup:
Intel CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads, 3.6 GHz or higher; 32 GB RAM or higher; OS Windows 10 64 bit; multi-monitor solution.
Also we’d recommend to check with your broker if their software is able to handle this number of open positions.