OK. Thanks for clarifying that Eugene.

Also, I'm thinking of modifying JBT to support running multiple
strategies at the time...
have you ever thought about this? I will appreciate you thoughts about
this
as I'm not yet very confortable with your system architecture...

Is it possible in the first place?


Thanks


On Aug 6, 2:04 am, Eugene Kononov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My bad. I wasn't clear enough. I was refering to
>
> > positionsHistory.add(new Position(openOrder.getDate(), position,
> > avgFillPrice));
>
> > in PositionManager class
>
> > which is bypased for all other modes but backtesting
>
> Optimizer can run millions of strategies. If it saved the position history
> for each of these strategies, it would be a lot of wasted space and CPU
> cycles.
>
> Position history is saved with the only purpose to show it on the strategy
> performance chart, which is only available after running a back test. Note
> that forward test modes and optimizer modes are results-compatible with the
> backtest. That is, if you run JBT in forward test, and then run the backtest
> on the recorded data, the results will be identical. Same thing with the
> optimizer. So, in effect, you are not losing any position history
> information.
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