Optimization slower in MT4 Build 406?

Here. Rosh said they fix the issue.

Thanks Rosh.

There is known issue with 406 speed.

Hopefully future updates will fix.

I haven't used MT in a while and tinkered with some backtests today. I must say: MT became REALLY slow! Backtesting became around 10 times slower.

I used to use some 2xx Build for backtests and updated to 409 today, guess that was a mistake.

Are they working on this issue?

Does anyone know anything about this issue?

I'd try the new 415, available from beta-testing as described in https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/138261. Every build before 415 is supposedly going to get turned off on June 1st, so I wouldn't expend too much energy investigating the speed of 402, 406, 409 etc.

(EDIT: of course, you could probably continue to use any build you like for back-testing, but you won't be able to trade using anything before 415.)

I will soon have to hire someone solely for updating my metatrader terminals.

I wonder why no one else is complaining about this issue (backtests became slower). I can't be the only one having this problem, can I?

Looking back, MT4 strategy tester ten-folded it's run times pretty short after MT5 was launched. Isn't Mt5 bringing it's own paid cloud service? What a coincidence!

Why don't you use an old terminal for backtesting?

I for my point have no problems with the tester, even a 10 Year on tick test gets finnished after a max of 1 min.

Maybe you should boycott MT4 and stop using it ?

@zzueg: I will have to. Problem is, that I will then have to have two development platforms, one for backtesting, one for live-trading since at some point 4xx and 2xx became incompatible.

@RaptorUK: What are you trying to tell me?