I have noticed an error in the reporting of the MarketScope backtester.
Approximately twice the number of simulated ticks are reported. This occurs both in the current production version 01.14.112415 and the development version 01.15.041816.
For example when testing over a year, as ticks are simulated at 8 a minute (7 with 8 second intervals, one with 4 second interval) the expected number of ticks should of the order 52*5*1440*8 = 2995200, about 3 million. I confirmed this by writing out a trace file at every tick.
However in the statistics panel, the number of ticks for both versions is given as about 6 million.
It may just be that the counter is being updated at entry and exit but it may be something deeper in the coding.
In the real world, ticks are not simulated so the results are always different anyway but can you check this please?