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 Thank you TJ - Would you mind answering one more 
question about the results?  Suppose I am optimizing on CAR. And when the 
CMAE opt is done, the first line shows 200%, followed by a bunch of lines 
at 100% with closely related params.  In exhaustive opt, I would 
ignore the 200% in favor of all the 100%'s.  In CMAE opt, does the fact 
that it returned one 200% line mean that it has found some sort of a plateau 
around those param values - i.e., would you consider trying those param values 
going forward? Thanks very much! 
  
Steve 
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  Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:24 
  PM 
  Subject: Re: [amibroker] CMAE 
  question 
  
  
  Hello, 
    
  Zero as default is good. In that case internally it is set 
  to 900 * square of ( number of params + 3 ).  
    
  As for Runs you should never go beyond 10 because of 
  exponential growth of search space. 
    
  Runs 31 means 2^31 (=2147483648 ) times larger search. Makes 
  no sense. 
   Best regards, Tomasz 
  Janeczko amibroker.com 
  
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    Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:52 
    PM 
    Subject: Re: [amibroker] CMAE 
    question 
    
  
    Hi TJ - I read in the ReadMe that the default 
    for MaxEval is 0, and it is advised not to change it. If I define it myself 
    as 0, is that different from not defining it at all and just accepting the 
    default? 
      
    Yes, I read that it is advised not to go over 
    10 runs, but in experimenting, Runs = 31 and MaxEval = 0 seems to 
    return quite good and consistant results whereas 5 or 10 runs seems 
    hit-or-miss and results can vary quite a bit. But maybe I am screwing things 
    up by defining Runs as 0? 
      
    Steve  
    
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      Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:29 
      PM 
      Subject: Re: [amibroker] CMAE 
      question 
      
  
      Hello, 
        
      This is entirely wrong combination of 
      params.  
      MaxEval should be AT LEAST 2000. Runs should NEVER be 
      set to anything greater than 10, with 5 being resonable max. 
       Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com 
      
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        Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 
        8:03 PM 
        Subject: [amibroker] CMAE 
        question 
        
  
        Hi - I am playing around with the CMAE opt 
        engine. MaxEval is set to 0 by me (instead of just accepting 
        default). For Runs, if I enter any number up to 31, it will warn me 
        about taking lots of time, and at 31 runs it says I have about 1.5B 
        opt steps. If I enter any any number > 31, it may or may not warn me, 
        and when it doesn't warn me, behavior of the progress box appears 
        different. Am I overflowing the max allowed opt steps? Is there some 
        limit to this algorithm? Any other thoughts why things are different 
        sometimes? Thanks very much! 
          
        Steve      
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