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What is Optimax?

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What is Optimax?

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Optimax is a stand-alone program that runs on your PC and works with TradeStation 7 during a strategy optimization to super-charge its’ back-testing and optimization capabilities. Optimax presents you with a set of intuitive views of your strategy’s behavior that quickly show you how it responds as the inputs and price series changes. The biggest Optimax advantage comes from using our powerful genetic algorithms that slash your optimization times by factors of thousands, and our extremely popular built-in price modulator that modifies the price series dynamically during optimization to drastically reduce the probability of curve-fitting the results. What is a Genetic Optimization? A genetic optimization is like running a TradeStation back testing optimization on 1,000 Cray computers. You could call it a smart search. TradeStation’s current algorithm, the exhaustive search, evaluates every possible combination of strategy inputs and determines the best of them all. It is thorough, and t