dclayw » Thu May 22, 2014 2:38 pm wrote:Yes that tip from Alorente is a good one and probably the best way to go with Empty4. I come from the Amibroker world where the implementation of "multiple charts" is a very good one. The drag/drop method in Empty4 seems to be the only way to implement "multiple charts" and it's a very cumbersome implementation.
What would be nice in Empty4 is to have your customised symbols in a tree type structure (fx/stocks/futures etc) in the Market Watch Window, with just a single chart on screen. Then, clicking on any symbol in the Market Watch Window (or just very quickly cycling through the symbols with up/down arrow keys) loads that symbol on the chart. None of this drag/drop business which is just slow and cumbersome. Then again, we need to work with what we have, and Empty4 is heavily supported on the indi front. I have thought about porting some of these indis like CSS to Amibroker, but that's very time consuming for me, I'm a trader mainly, not a coder.
But the real issue here I think is why the W_D_MN_open_line indicator seems to hog resources where the other indis (CSS/dashboard/10.7 indis etc) don't. I expect these indis (CSS in particular) are much more resource intensive then this line indicator.
I did some modification now it should need less resources..
W_D_MN_open_lineA.mq4
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Tommaso
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This may sound funny but Empty4 seems to run better on single core computers than multiple core computers. I never had trouble with 10.2 and 10.4 until I started running them on a 4 core computer. It was explained to me that the program runs on one core better than being divided into 4 cores. So I solved the problem by running multiple MT4s. One I use to get my signals from and the other to set my trades on. Dividing up the indis using separate MT4s allows the different cores to run different programs thereby speeding up the whole process. So one Empty4 gives me my trade signals and the other I set my trades to get the fastest action. Kind of crazy but that is the work around I am doing now to get around some of these issues. Bottom line for me is I hate the Empty4 6xx update and how much slower Empty4 has been since then. So I divided up the workload.
nanningbob » Thu May 22, 2014 10:50 am wrote:This may sound funny but Empty4 seems to run better on single core computers than multiple core computers. I never had trouble with 10.2 and 10.4 until I started running them on a 4 core computer. It was explained to me that the program runs on one core better than being divided into 4 cores. So I solved the problem by running multiple MT4s. One I use to get my signals from and the other to set my trades on. Dividing up the indis using separate MT4s allows the different cores to run different programs thereby speeding up the whole process. So one Empty4 gives me my trade signals and the other I set my trades to get the fastest action. Kind of crazy but that is the work around I am doing now to get around some of these issues. Bottom line for me is I hate the Empty4 6xx update and how much slower Empty4 has been since then. So I divided up the workload.
Hi Bob.. I do a similar setup.. using CSS on 1 Instance so I can monitor. I have signals on another instance,Testing on a a 3rd instance and manual trading on a 4th. It does seem seem to be better.
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boldtrader » Thu May 22, 2014 10:55 pm wrote:
Hi Bob.. I do a similar setup.. using CSS on 1 Instance so I can monitor. I have signals on another instance,Testing on a a 3rd instance and manual trading on a 4th. It does seem seem to be better.
The other nice thing is my signals are not all bunched together in one pop up screen. I get all my CSS popups one one and my STO7 on another. This helps me find those CSS crosses I like looking for easier. Once you get all these popups going it can drive you crazy trying to pick out what you are looking for. Now they all come on separate pop ups and I can filter through them easier.
nanningbob » Thu May 22, 2014 3:50 pm wrote:This may sound funny but Empty4 seems to run better on single core computers than multiple core computers. I never had trouble with 10.2 and 10.4 until I started running them on a 4 core computer. It was explained to me that the program runs on one core better than being divided into 4 cores. So I solved the problem by running multiple MT4s. One I use to get my signals from and the other to set my trades on. Dividing up the indis using separate MT4s allows the different cores to run different programs thereby speeding up the whole process. So one Empty4 gives me my trade signals and the other I set my trades to get the fastest action. Kind of crazy but that is the work around I am doing now to get around some of these issues. Bottom line for me is I hate the Empty4 6xx update and how much slower Empty4 has been since then. So I divided up the workload.
Empty4 can only use one core - it isn't clever enough to take advantage of multiple cores. As a result you may have 4 cores but one core may not be as powerful as the single core you had previously - even though all 4 cores combined may be far superior. Hence the situation you have found. I split my charts across multiple Empty4's for that reason too.
PS A note about Empty4:
Empty4 can only use one core - it isn't clever enough to take advantage of multiple cores. As a result you may have a 2 or 4 or more core computer but one core of a 4 core computer may not be as powerful as the single core of a single core computer you had previously - even though all 4 cores combined may be far superior to a single core computer. So running multiple MT4s like one for your CSS and one for other indies and a third for placing trades probably will make the indicators and Empty4 work faster and better than trying to run everything on one Empty4.
Thanks everyone for the input in regards to the issue I was having. I'm back to using 2 Empty4's to see if it helps.
Thanks Tommaso for the revised W_D_MN indi.
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Tommaso to the rescue again. This new version has made quite a difference. My Empty4 is now responsive immediately after loading. Many thanks for the new version :hi:
dclayw » Fri May 23, 2014 12:02 am wrote:
Tommaso to the rescue again. This new version has made quite a difference. My Empty4 is now responsive immediately after loading. Many thanks for the new version :hi:
Yes I agree! I've been able to change line thickness etc. now also without a problem!
I've also taken off the CSS and put it on another platform so probably this is helping too.
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