[bug] redundant loop causing slowdown -> hang -> lockup

[hotmatrixx]

So i've been playing with a new strategy for a while, it's worked perfectly for a seek or so while testing. purchase every time, on point, no issues.

Today I added one of my Money Management Strategies to it, and it hung - identically to how my apps were recently.

So, I broke my bot down step by step, and I think I found the culprit, which I'll share here; I found a couple.

#1 nested mathematic operations. It hates them, venomously.
I just plugged some random values into this to make my point (this is NOT a valid strategy)

#2 BEDMAS. oh yes, it hangs on bedmas.
a= b(c+d) - (e-c)/d
has to be broken down into separate lines with extra variables to account for the intra steps:

f=c+d
g=e-c
h=g/d
i=b*f
j=g/d
a=i-j

else it will hang within 10 trades. When you're on 3 minute markets, I don't like taking 1/2 to find out something is wrong with my code.. when it's actually NOT my code.

#3 reticulated arguments;

I come from BASIC, so I have a habit of doing this:

(set) a=a+b
but it no likey.

I have to go

set c=a
set a=c+b

I had all those operations in my MM system. so it was hanging on each of those systems. it had to be stretched out and broken down into it's simplest, step by step form.

As a benefit, my bot uses 8% of my CPU instead of a steady 80%

[aaimio]

Hey @hotmatrixx,

That's pretty interesting, do you have examples of unoptimised vs optimised strategies that you could share with us? It would help us figure out where we could improve our performance.

Regards,
Aaron