While M/C does an accurate job of using Tick Data to create RENKO Bars, It seems that M/C counts each individual tick as a separate bar when calculating its 5 million allowable bars per chart. Unfortunately, 5 million ticks may be only several days worth of RENKO bar data, depending on selected "brick" size chosen.
How do I overcome this limitation? Obviously, backtesting strategies involve more than days or weeks of data. I created a simple ES Chart, using 4 points as the RENKO brick size. The Chart stops at 200+ bars, or less than 1 month.
Can I overide the 5 million limit? This is a deal breaker for RENKO chart users.
Charting RENKO Bars
- Dave Masalov
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Re: Charting RENKO Bars
Dear CRC,
To increase max number of bars on the chart, you should modify the following registry settings (Start --> Run --> Regedit):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TS Support\MultiCharts\Shaper
MaxBarsCount
Normally, we do not recommecnd to increase this value. However, if you will use only one chart, you can increase it to 15000000.
To increase max number of bars on the chart, you should modify the following registry settings (Start --> Run --> Regedit):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TS Support\MultiCharts\Shaper
MaxBarsCount
Normally, we do not recommecnd to increase this value. However, if you will use only one chart, you can increase it to 15000000.
Re: Charting RENKO Bars
Version 8 or around then I could adjust the max bars and get around 2 years of renko forex data on tick bars, the Version 9 seems to not work as good now. Only uses about 60 % of ram while loading and then stalls and does not load up more quotes, previously MC would run up to 95 % then pause and wait for ram usage to drop and then continue loading. I realize this is not advised, but I run only one chart to cut resources , any way to get more tick renko bars loaded up ?
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Re: Charting RENKO Bars
Hello chilli,Version 8 or around then I could adjust the max bars and get around 2 years of renko forex data on tick bars, the Version 9 seems to not work as good now. Only uses about 60 % of ram while loading and then stalls and does not load up more quotes, previously MC would run up to 95 % then pause and wait for ram usage to drop and then continue loading. I realize this is not advised, but I run only one chart to cut resources , any way to get more tick renko bars loaded up ?
Please continue the conversation on this case with Dave directly.