Too Many Custom Studies Slows Down ThinkOrSwim

[Jman831]

It has taken me my whole ThinkScript "career" (don't take me too seriously) to finally figure out why my OnDemand feature for ThinkOrSwim would not perform well. I don't know if this has been talked about in other threads, but I couldn't find any threads on the subject. I'm going to do a little showing off here while at the same time making fun of myself for how many User-Defined ThinkScript indicators I've created. The image of the Bing/Copilot answer is the point that I'm trying to make. Remove unused User-Defined indicators that are no longer serving any purpose as they can slow down the OnDemand feature along with the use of ThinkOrSwim for real-time trading tremendously. As you can see, I have quite a bit of work cut out for me as I'll be going through all of my User-Defined indicators to determine what might be important to keep and what might not. I honestly think I have more (embarrassingly so) User-Defined indicators than I do indicators that actually came with the program. I honestly don't even remember what half of the indicators are. Lol. Maybe this is common sense to a lot of you, but for people like me I somehow missed this tidbit of information the entire time I've been using ThinkOrSwim.

Edit: I would also like to apologize to those I never bothered to answer questions or make a fix for. I suffer from mental illness and often times will go on long hiatus stretches where I stop practice trading/trading altogether. I would also like to mention that sometimes I don't always have an answer or a fix to all questions, so please bare with me. Thank you kindly for your understanding.

Second Edit: The same also goes for custom Strategies.

 

[MerryDay]

It is vital to maintain a minimal number of Custom Scripts
Keeping unused custom indicators in the ThinkorSwim app will slow it down.
Our custom studies are not indexed on Schwab's servers.
Therefore, the more you have, exponentially creates lag to access the ones that you use.
Copy unused custom studies to your computer then delete them from your app
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/how-to-backup-user-created-tos-chart-studies-strategies.14979/
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/best-way-to-save-lines-of-code.14973/#post-122479

I feel your pain. I, too, learned this the hard way.
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/transferring-thinkorswim-data-to-new-account.18002/#post-138268


PS: You are one of my favorite contributors! I find tidbits of genius in every code that you create.
Your insights have helped me grow as a trader and as a scripter.
Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

For anyone who has missed out on @Jman831's scripts. Here they are sorted by popularity:
https://usethinkscript.com/search/1...[title_only]=1&c[users]=Jman831&o=replies&g=1

 

[Jman831]

I feel your pain. I, too, learned this the hard way.
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/transferring-thinkorswim-data-to-new-account.18002/#post-138268


It is vital to maintain a minimal number of Custom Scripts
Keeping unused custom indicators in the ThinkorSwim app will slow it down.
Our custom studies are not indexed on Schwab's servers.
Therefore, the more you have, exponentially creates lag to access the ones that you use.
Copy unused custom studies to your computer then delete them from your app
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/best-way-to-save-lines-of-code.14973/#post-122479

At least now we can laugh about it. Good suggestion, by the way, I wasn't even thinking about that! Some that I posted on here strangely went missing from ThinkOrSwim, but I'm not worried about it since I have them posted on here.