// Continually create new random chromosomes and evaluate until all chromosomes are profitable for generation 1.
private List <Chromosome> PrelimChromosomes(FitnessEvaluator evaluator)
{
List <Chromosome> finalChromosomes = new List <Chromosome>(); // New empty list, keep adding chromosomes rule by rule into list (if they are above the profit threshold).
while (finalChromosomes.Count < settings.PopulationSize)
{
List <Chromosome> preChromosomes = CreateRandomChromosomes(); // Preliminary chromosomes generated randomly.
AflMaker.MakeAflFiles(preChromosomes, settings.ProgramFolderPath, settings.TradeType);
preChromosomes = evaluator.EvaluateProfits(preChromosomes); // Evaluator returns preChromosomes sorted by fitness.
finalChromosomes = TestPrelimChromosomes(finalChromosomes, preChromosomes);
}
// Boetticher: At this point all preliminary processing is done
return(finalChromosomes);
}
// Main genetic algorithm.
public void DoAlgorithm()
{
MainWindow.display.Results = "Starting Automation.";
// Boetticher: The following line generates chromosomes that will be used in the first generation
List <Chromosome> chromosomes = PrelimChromosomes(evaluator);
for (int i = 0; i < settings.Generations; i++)
{
// Boetticher: Right now the program makes a call to AflMaker.
// Boetticher: Instead the should be a call to some procedure that breeds the chromosomes (Cross over and mutate)
AflMaker.MakeAflFiles(chromosomes, settings.ProgramFolderPath, settings.TradeType);
MainWindow.display.Results = "Backtesting Generation " + (i + 1).ToString() + ".";
evaluator.GenerationNum = (i + 1);
chromosomes = evaluator.EvaluateProfits(chromosomes);
MainWindow.display.Results = "Completed.";
}
}