Speen up screen updating during fast markets.

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Speen up screen updating during fast markets.

Postby johnromeronc » 27 Mar 2020

I found this on a broker site, and confirmed with MC support today and they approve my repost.

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We’ve reached out to Multicharts support. You can find their response below:

MultiCharts is efficiently using your CPU cores wherever that is technically possible.
The studies calculations are multi-threaded - all studies from each chart are calculated in an individual thread, utilizing your multi core CPU. Auto trading for each chart is also handled by a separate thread in a different process.

Multi-core CPU affects the optimization speed, as this calculation is divided into multiple flows that run in parallel. But each MultiCharts main window is running in a single thread. All visualization of one main MultiCharts window (disregard the number of workspaces/charts/windows in it) is done by a single thread calculated by just one core.

To make the visualization use multiple cores and improve the performance of the platform – you need to run multiple instances of MultiCharts64.exe (multiple instances of the main MC window).

You can place each main window on its own screen and save its settings as a Desktop file:

https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... g_Desktops 5

If you still think that it has any negative effect on the resource usage – you can detach the windows from each instance of the platform and place them on your screens the way you like it:

https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... ng_Windows 3

We hope you found this response helpful.

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