How to determine if Strategy is being Backtested or Optimized in Strategy Analyzer

[SapientTrader]

The reason I ask is that it works better to turn off plotting and drawing during Optimize but not Backtest.

Is there a way to distinguish between them?

Backtest type

Sets the backtest type. 1. Standard 2. Optimization

I pasted the two options you can see in the strategy analyzer.

Right now, I have all plotting and Drawing turned off when Account.Name == @"Backtest";

Is there a more precise way?

[NinjaTrader_JoshG]

Hello SapientTrader,
Thanks for your post.

I was able to check the number of Optimizer iterations in order to differentiate between backtest and optimization, but I also needed to access an undocumented variable in order to ensure I was in the Strategy Analyzer. IsInStrategyAnalyzer is not documented so I cannot make any guarantees on its usage or provide any support for it going forward. Something like the following snippet will print "true" if the optimizer is being used and "false" if in a backtest.

            if(Optimizer != null && IsInStrategyAnalyzer)
                Print("in optimization ?  " + (Optimizer.NumberOfIterations > 1 ? "true" : "false" ));

Please let me know if we can be of further assistance.

[MojoJojo]

Hi there,

after testing this code

Optimizer.NumberOfIterations

is greater than 0 only once on the what I believe to bet the initialization run, when the real testing starts it's 0.
While I find this useful for different reasons, here is another approach:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...eing-optimized