When comes to Automated Trading speed of execution plays a dominant role in executing at better prices. Here I would like to list three important settings in Amibroker that could improve your speed of order execution.
1)Enable Multi-threaded charts execution + GDI(rendering) feature
Goto Tools -> Preferences -> AFL tab and check the box Multi-threaded charts execution + GDI(rendering)
From AmiBroker 5.50 version onwards, Amibroker started supported multithreading (parallel execution on all CPU cores) in both charting and New Analysis window. This greatly enhances speed of operation and improves the responsivity of the application. This could be helpful if you are really working with multiple charting tabs
2)Change the Chart Refresh Interval to Zero
Goto Tools -> Preferences -> Intraday and set the value of Realtime chart refresh interval to 0 instead of the default value 1 as shown below
If the frequency of the real-time updates is set in the preferences to zero then without using RequestTimedRefresh function every tick will get updated instantaneously without any delay. so no RequestTimedRefresh is needed for Realtime data vendors provided they coded their Amibroker data plugin according to the Amibroker Standard. Hence it is highly recommended to use authentic vendors who supports.
Point to be noted: By default Real-time chart refresh interval is set to 1 sec. That limits the chart refresh rate to 1 second. Reducing the Rate to 0 improves the quality of Algo Trade Execution
3)Enable Subsecond Auto-refresh Interval to speed up the execution
Im recently surprised to know that Amibroker supports sub-second chart auto-refresh interval via the function i.e the function RequestTimedRefresh(0.1,false) refreshes the chart every 0.1 second or 100 milli second provided if the registry settings are enabled.
RequestTimedRefresh function supports sub-second (down to 0.1 sec) resolution, when enabled via registry setting (HKCU/Software/TJP/Broker/Settings/EnableHiresRTR, DWORD value = 1 )
How to Enable the Registry Settings
1)Press Windows + R Key together and type Regedit and open the windows registry
2)Goto the registry path HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/TJP/Broker/Settings/ and right-click on the right-hand plane and select New and select DWORD(32-bit value) as shown below
3)Enter the Registry Value Name as EnableHiresRTR and the Hexadecimal value as 1 as shown below.
Once All the Settings are enabled restart the PC to check the improved speed of execution.
All the above three settings definitely improve Algov#xecution speed in Amibroker compared to the previous settings. Let me know in the comments how your speed of execution impacted post the settings mentioned above,
