MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

Hi Everyone, I am using TS as my data feed for futures backtesting. When I set up a backtest in Portfolio Trader the symbols that I trade on a daily bar download almost instantly, but the hourly, two hour, and four hour bars are very slow to download. I am using five years of data for my backtests. Can you provide any tips on how I can speed up the data downloads for one, two, and four hour bars? Do I need a different data provider? Also, is there any way to cache the data so that I don't have to re-download an entire data set every time I run a backtest? Any advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

1. Save historical data from TS in ASCII format. Open TS > Charts> Data window > save > txt format
2. Then load it MC QuoteManager





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