Hi,
When using genetic optimisation of strategy parameters, it's very often the case that a quite good candidate (or even the best one) is found early in the search. Since backtesting with large datasets (e.g. the 6 month m1 EURUSD prices) takes a long time, it's a waste of time if we find an excellent solution in pass 25 but keep evaluating 2000 more solutions (maybe an hour!).
Could I suggest that during the search, the quality of the best solution so far (and the number of the pass when it was found) be shown in either the search alert box or the "OptimiseResults" tab?
Then we could quickly cancel the search when we see a "pretty good" solution? This is especially useful when doing very rough exploration of parameters and e.g. timeframes.
Also, strategy time frame can't be optimised - this seems like a critical variable whose appropriate setting is not always obvious. Could it be added to the optimisable variables?