Different cAlgo\Sources folder by profile

jimibt

Apologies if this has been discussed before. I know that I can setup my cTrader app so as to allow multiple profiles to login and use different accounts (live/test). However, whilst this adds nice separation, there is a small niggle that I've observed.

In short, both profiles SHARE the same source folder. Whilst this might not be an issue in the large majority of cases, for my use case, it would be very useful. I have a test and a live setup locally (and a live setup on a vps). This all works great, except when I wish to make changes to the source code of a cbot and compare the differences on local test vs live. As you know, both target the same source folder and therefore any changes and recompilation affect both profiles simultaneously. I know I could use a source control package but this would still not mitigate my live profile from using the newly compiled code generated from test/dev.

Is there an approach to point each profile to different folders for the cAlgo\Sourcce??

Hope you can help
jim

Mike

Hi, Jim; if you want to run the same cBot with different brokers on the same computer, copy/paste the cBot and rename it; this will create two identical cBots in your sources folder.

It is impossible to have multiple cBot and indicator source folders on the same computer when using cTrader.

jimibt

thanks for the update mike. i think i'll have to keep them on separate machines (physically) much as I'm doing with the vps vs my local. I have stripped out all the example bots/indicators and only have my own small collection now that I use on live markets. My main issue was due to live vs demo on my local machine.

For now, I will (for safety) only run my demo profile locally and make the code changes there and then promote to the vps if everything tests out as required.

Shame one can't extend the different profiles to point to user defined source locations..

anyway...