I have a workspace which contains the strategies I want to run every day. I arrange them in a cascading order which makes it easier for me to use, with each strategy partially overlapping the previous strategy.

If I add a new strategy, modify the layout and then save the workspace, the layout is not the same when I reopen the workspace. Specifically, the most recently added strategy opens on top of the other strategies, even though it was partially covered by other strategies in the cascade when I saved the workspace.

If I go into the *.ws file and reorder the entries based on the first value in Bounds, the workspace opens as intended. Is there an easier way to do this?

Who knows. You can try to experiment with reordering your chart windows before saving.

Thanks Eugene. I tried that initially.

After looking at the *.ws file, I believe when a new strategy is added and the workspace is saved, Wealth-Lab simply appends the information for the new strategy (including its location within the Wealth-Lab window) to the existing strategy information. When Wealth-Lab opens a workspace, I'm guessing it reads the *.ws file sequentially and opens each strategy in the saved location.

If that's all true, I didn't expect there would be a simple solution. I'll continue using my workaround.

I've tried it out and you're right. The new windows always appear on top. Reordering the new entry succeeds by manually moving its section in the *.ws file to the right position. Clumsy but it works.

In case anyone wants to modify their *.ws file to change the order that the strategies open, the first two entries

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should not be moved and should always be at the beginning of the file.

The entry for each strategy begins with

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and ends with the blank line after

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Happy hacking!