Once you load Golden Pickaxe on your chart, pop-up box will appear showing the settings of your EA. Make sure that all the settings and alerts are correct before clicking OK.
Golden Pickaxe Perceptron training settings:
Perceptron Training Mode (Tester only) – if true, the EA will try to train Perceptron while backtesting and save results in the external configuration file Perceptron_Config.txt located in the common directory for all MT4/5 terminals
Dataset Max Size - maximum dataset size for raw data. Try increasing the value if you get an overflow error during training
Neuron in Hidden Layer [0=no hidden layer] - number of neurons in the hidden layer. If zero, then no hidden layer will be used. A very high value can reduce the learning speed and lead to over-training. The value cannot be changed if Perceptron is trained!
Training Algo - training algorithm:
– Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm (LMA or just LM), also known as the Damped least-squares (DLS) method, is used to solve non-linear least squares problems.
– L-BFGS is an optimization algorithm in the family of quasi-Newton methods that approximates the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm (BFGS) using a limited amount of computer memory. It is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in machine learning.
Number of Restarts – max. number of restarts to find the global optimum.