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In the “EA Studio Professional Course” in the section called “The Pool” Petko talks about when he has collected too many strategies he further filters them in the Validator. Unfortunately, Petko skips over how he further filters strategies when there are too many to handle. It is the middle of the month of August and I have been running the Reactor twice every day on two laptops and I am already getting a very large amount of strategies. By the end of the month I will be over burdened with strategies. How is the best way to further filter all these strategies so I have a nice collection for August?
Today I ran a test of my two laptops. I ran the EA Studio Reactor for 60 minutes using my normal settings. The following is the results:
Main laptop
System: 4 core, CPU 2.80GHz, 16.0GB
60 minutes, Generator = 114358, Collected = 2
60 minutes, Generator = 116435, Collected = 5
60 minutes, Generator = 115576, Collected = 3
60 minutes, Generator = 114678, Collected = 3
60 minutes, Generator = 116109, Collected = 8
Average: 4 robots collected per hourSecond laptop
System: 4 core, CPU 1.6GHz, RAM 20.0GB
60 minutes, Generator = 57265, Collected = 3
60 minutes, Generator = 50597, Collected = 5
60 minutes, Generator = 48698, Collected = 3
60 minutes, Generator = 49929, Collected = 3
60 minutes, Generator = 48915, Collected = 2
Average: 3 robots collected per hourWhat I noticed is that the CPU speed is important in hour many robots are generated per hour. However, what was a surprise to me was that the only difference in how many robots actually pass all the filtering is 1 robot per hour (4 vs 3).
My next test will be to see how many robots (EA’s) are collected per hour when I run 2 Reactors on each laptop.
Hi Samuel,
Yes that was my thinking to run them all through the Validator at one time to remove correlations. I am also thinking that it puts the best strategies at the top of the list. And, it also allows me to further filter the complete collection so I can find the best 10 robots to use.
Do you normally use the Multmarket and Walkforward after you have selected the best robots to use before live trading or do you just use the Monte Carlo?
I have another question:
I have Reactor Collections for several days now. Should I further filter them by combining them together in the Validator? How do you handle Many days of Collecting robots?I have a question: When I run the Reactor and collect 40 robots and then run those 40 robots through the Validator is then collects something like 34 robots. The Validator is using the same filters as the Reactor. I would have expected all 40 robots to pass through the Validator. What is going on?
Hi Samuel,
I will answer your above questions.
First of all I took all 440 robots generated to date and ran them through the Validator with the normal settings and came up with a nice small pool of 42 robots. I will continue to generate more robots to add to this pool each day. I can now further filter this pool of robots to chose those to add to my portfolio of 10 MT4 accounts.In addition to generating my own robots I have a few courses from Petko where I get an assortment of robots he has generated each month.
Now that I have run the Reactor several times since all the issues have been resolved I will be adding more Reactors over the next several days to see how many Reactors I can run at one time without reducing the number of robots generated per minute.
Right now I am generating on average 1200 robots per minute. Also, I am collecting on average 8 robots per hour.
Hi Samuel,
The Reactor on my second laptop has completed it’s run and collected 15 strategies.
What is interesting is that after the Reactor has run for 4 hours it has already collected 14 strategies.
Samuel, how do you have several browsers running at one time? From what I am understanding is that if I put one browser in front of the other then the one behind will go inactive and the Reactor will not run.
Hi Samuel,
I not sure what is going on this morning. I started a Reactor on my main laptop about 3 hours ago and it has already collected 12 strategies. The only difference I know of is that I left the Reactor viewable on my screen instead of an MT4 terminal. Would that make the difference?
Thanks Petko. Windows based vps is a little expensive anyway, so I am not planning on using them unless I absolutely need too.
I have a one day free trial on a vps. I transferred a test file to it so I know it is working. However, I have no idea on how to run EA Studio on it.
Hi Samuel,
My main laptop has 4 cores with 8 logical cores and the screen is set to never turn off.
My second laptop also has 4 cores with 8 logical cores and the screen is set to never turn off.
My second laptop has now been running for 4 hours and has collected 8 strategies. So when the 10 hour run is complete I should have 20 strategies.
Hi Samuel,
Here is latest test on the same laptop. I just had one Reactor running. It does about 1000 generations per minute but collection is terrible.
10 minutes, 11000 strategies, 3 passed validation, 3 passed Normalization, 0 passed Monte Carlo
15 minutes, 17000 strategies, 3 passed validation, 3 passed Normalization, 0 passed Monte Carlo
20 minutes, 22000 strategies, 4 passed validation, 4 passed Normalization, 0 passed Monte Carlo
25 minutes, 27000 strategies, 4 passed validation, 4 passed Normalization, 0 passed Monte Carlo
30 minutes, 32000 strategies, 5 passed validation, 5 passed Normalization, 0 passed Monte Carlo
35 minutes, 36000 strategies, 6 passed validation, 6 passed Normalization, 0 passed Monte Carlo
40 minutes, 4100, strategies, 7 passed validation, 7 passed Normalization, 1 passed Monte Carlo
45 minutes, 46000 strategies, 9 passed validation, 9 passed Normalization, 1 passed Monte CarloSo number of strategies generated is about 1/2 of what you are getting, however, not nothing is passing Monte Carlo. So I am not sure we have discovered the problem.
I will set up my other laptop tonight!