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Date/Time: Mon, 20 May 2024 15:42:28 +0000

Post From: spreadsheet conversion problem

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joer - Posts: 41
I did have Sierra Chart running on my old computer when I was trying to install on the new computer. So I exited that and then the install of 1307 with old spreadsheets was successful on the new pc. I followed instructions in the documentation about copying over certain files, then copied over one of the chartbooks and spreadsheet I am working on. Then I ran the same backtest on both computers and got significantly different results. For just one month the total profits differed by more than 50% between the 2 computers. Looking thru the trade activity logs, I see this was caused by just a few ticks here or there. For example, one trade had a difference of 3 ticks between the entry point for the exact same trade which caused one to be stopped out and the other to be profitable. While most trades are exactly the same, these small differences snowball into making complete trades that followed to not be triggered or extra trades to be taken. Over the month this turned into a large variance. My question is, does the processor speed or hard disk speed affect the results of your back testing software or is there something I missed when setting up my new computer?