I want to be able to optimize for a year using Ascent optimizer for instance and then WFO for 2 weeks on +- 10% of the values that are written to the .par file.

Do I need to read in the value from the par file after the original optimize cycle or are those values available with a function call on the next cycle.

It seems like if I set the NumTrainCycles to 2 then on the second go around I would not have to read the parameters from the .par file but I can't figure out if that is possible or not.

I'm not sure if the NumTrainCycles is used like this though -- like optimize the first cycle then WFO the second with parameters from the first. Does this make sense?

Thanks!