CustomSymbols : slower that base symbols ?

[Jean Francois Le Bas]

Hi

I tried to create a custom symbol with only the necessary ticks for my strategy.

of course I cannot modifiy the parameters of the input signals, but I wanted to see if putting the minimum amount of ticks in the custom symbol would speed backtest time

and it is quite the opposite : the backtests are much slower with custom symbols with far less ticks that the original symbol

is it normal (maybe accessing the base tick data is faster a a way) ? or am i doing something wrong ?

thanks so much

EDIT : ok I was using the custom symbol within the code instead of switching the pair to the custom one in the settings. now it is very fast

Jeff