Suggesting a button on Optimization to copy all (100+) Parameter values from Backtesting and untick most or all

Created at 10 Sep 2024, 01:52
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martins

Joined 22.10.2019

Suggesting a button on Optimization to copy all (100+) Parameter values from Backtesting and untick most or all
10 Sep 2024, 01:52


During development oc cBots for cTrader Automate on Windows, after a cBot has been rebuilt, currently Optimization seems to start with parameter values based completely on the program defaults & steps or ranges. 

I would find it very useful to be able to copy to Optimization the values already manually set in Backtesting, and also to turn off all the range ticks (or perhaps all but the few I used for the last optimization run). Possibly to copy the date range too.

My testing cBot has over 100 parameters and although some may well still have default values in a Backtest, it can be tedious checking if I've missed one when the Optimize result set does not include an exact match with the Backtest it was supposed to be optimising. Thanks for reading.

 

Update: I've just realised that since I'm already using C#'s System.Reflection in the cBot to find the parameters that were supplied so they can be logged, I could have the cBot also write them to a file in the text format used for .optset files and then manually load that file into the Optimization.

It seems I'm already logging ALL the fields needed (Property name, value, type, & the CustomAttributeData where I can see some have DefaultValue, MinValue, & Step. 
The copy button would be nice but I'll try this anyway, hopefully there'll be no pressing reason for you to change the format of .optset data (or .cbotset) too drastically in the near future.


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