AI Generation- How to get results faster

[ecmazii]

Hello I have been running the AI Generation and tried different CPU configurations including 96 vCPU through Amazon AWS but I am still getting 8+ hours to process for an 8 month span of results. Is there a CPU configuration that is recommended to run a faster scan or is it the software that is slowing down the results?

Thank you,

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello ecmazii,

Thanks for your post.

AI Generate is an experimental backtester to test out different strategy ideas using a genetic algorithm. Strategies that are generated are not generated with code that is compliant with IsInstantiatedOnEachOptimizationIteration = false so they will be re-instantiated with each iteration that they are tested. These strategies will take longer to backtest/optimize than strategies that are written to be compliant setting this property to false.

To use this property in a strategy you have programmed yourself, the strategy must reset all of its class level variables in State.DataLoaded.

IsInstantiatedOnEachOptimizatonIteration documentation — http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...niteration.htm

State Management Best Practices (please see Resetting class level variables for Strategy Analyzer Optimization) - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...urceManagement

Another tip for fast backtesting performance is to eliminate the use of Drawing Tools by checking IsInStrategyAnalyzer is false before draw objects are made.

Unfortunately, these performance improvement techniques would be applied only to hand written strategies and are not applied with AI Generate.

Please let us know if you have any additional questions.