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Date/Time: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:47:11 +0000
Post From: Trade Simulation Data Not Clearing - Pretty sure it is a bug.
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| WickedTrader - Posts: 14 |
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Ok, so a few notes on what I have learned for anyone else with these concerns... As per SC documentation and advice above - "You can see the status of the completed queries in the Trade >> Trade Service Log. And there is also an indication in the log message of how many outstanding queries there are at the time of a completed query." Specifically, in the Trade Service logs, you can find entries saying... e.g. "TradeActivity files query time: 0.001217 seconds. Entries: 39. Current queries: 1 | 2021-11-11 08:01:18.131" If the last entry says "Current queries: 1"... I think what that actually means is that it has finished! - it reports this when finishing that last query. When doing scan based backtesting in particular, these queries accumulate and (on my system at least) can take 30 seconds or more. Multiply that by up to 13 queries (backtesting 7 stocks in my case) and it can take a while (usually only a few minutes total though). I'm not complaining about that, I still love SC... I'm still not 100% convinced that there isn't an even more fundamental bug here somewhere, ...especially since checking the video of the error that I sent you... ...at no point did the Query Count in the Trade Activity Logs window say anything other than zero. ...but if I find something that remains unexplained, I will add to this thread here: >>> Nothing yet, probably I was wrong! <<< P.S. By means of feedback for SC support - The most important thing I think I have learned is that there is a "Query Count" in the Trade Activity log. Unless this says "Query Count: 0" the results are not complete. You could perhaps make this more clear - making it Bold Red whenever it is not Zero perhaps. ...this would be a very sensible SAFETY measure to stop a lot of users from drawing false conclusions! ...would increase user confidence on the reproducibility of backtests (I have had my concerns and suspect this was it)! ...and would certainly save some time for your support team too! Date Time Of Last Edit: 2021-11-11 09:29:08
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