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Optimizing Strategy Tester Backtest Performance

I am running a large amount of back tests. I have been keeping a few laptops busy most of the time day in and day out. I have found a few issues that hopefully someone here can help me with. I run a EA test with M5 charts for 1 year timeframe and the tests are taking about 20 minutes per setting

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Trade interface to net positions and create a virtual foreign account for those abused by USA NFA Hedging and FIFO rules

Perhaps a large portion of the negative aspects of the NFA hedge and FIFO rules could be mitigated with Back Office record keeping. (or somewhat mitigated with a good dashboard and a reliable VPS. There would not need to be any creative bookkeeping just strict protocols for interpreting orders. If