Registered: Dec 2006
Posts: 1141

Ok. I'll check it out....

Registered: Sep 2006
Posts: 36

just wondering if MC has the time and sales function>

Registered: Not Yet
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I am testing a lot of charting programs last time (AmiBroker, NeoTicker, SierraCharts, NinjaTrader, MultiCharts and other) and imho MultiCharts looks better from other. Many people say that it is slow, but I'm testing MC 2.1 with eSignal data feed and it works really fast! Any problem yet..... price is reasonable too.

The only rival is AmiBroker. Seems to be faster than MC but charting is rude.

NeoTicker is extremally slow!

Sierra not suits my needs at all.

Ninja is intresting for trading but charting is not as good as in MC.

Remember it's just my subiective opinion :-)

Registered: Dec 2006
Posts: 1141

I wonder how the new 5.0.1.1 AMibroker Beta will fare in this test?

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 111

I don't need to use old backtester. Let's use new (slower) one: Here is a task for you:
Perform portfolio-level backtest including symbol scoring and ranking by RSI value, over 10000 symbols 15 years of EOD data.
Ten simultaneously open positions.
That's backtesting of roughly 40000000 (40 million) data points.
AmiBroker time on SINGLE core CPU (2GHz) v5.01, local database:
59 seconds.

Oh... I seem to forgot that you can not do that with your current version of Multicharts (no portfolio testing at all!)

Frankly I am sick and tired with this discussion. It does not lead anywhere. Those who tried both softwares can choose the software that is better for THEM easily. Just give them a chance
to evaluate ON THEIR OWN.

It is a pity that you don't just devote your time on serving YOUR CUSTOMERS instead of wasting time on stupid benchmarks. As several customers of YOURS said - they are NOT concerned about speed of benchmark. They are concerned about every day use speed and you should simply listen to your customers instead of spending days on childish benchmarks. Just go sit down and improve Multicharts IB interface, improve responsivity of Multicharts. That's what your customers are complaing about in this thread.
Don't waste time on stupid things that won't grow your business.

This is a friendly advice from someone who is serving customers for 7+ years.

Registered: May 2006
Posts: 4036

this is getting more exciting by the minute

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