Computer Power

Several functions in Optimal Trader require a huge amount of computer power which raises high demands on how the program is written.

The computing kernel of Optimal Trader i written in a high speed low-level programming language and emphasis has been put to handle computationally intensive algorithms of the program as efficiently as possible.

We still recommend using a powerful processor to keep optimization at high speed. The speed of the CPU and the number of computing kernels of the processor are the most important factors to the speed of Optimal Trader.

A normal optimization only takes a couple of seconds on a Pentium4 2.0 GHz processor. Without question the most computationally intensive function in Optimal Trader is step-by-step Back Testing. It may take a whole night to simulate 1000 days for a stock if you perform the function on all models of Optimal Trader on a Pentium4 2.0 GHz processor!