Summary #1: Created synthetic symbol, ZES 12-07, to hold imported ES tick data and avoid conflicts with real-time ES 12-07 symbol. Tick data ranges from Jan 1st 2006 to Sept 30 2007. (Had to create 3 separate import files to import that much tick data to avoid "out of memory" errors during the import.)
Summary #2: Data was imported with no errors. Data exports with no errors. All the tick data exists in Ninja Trader database. Entire 19 months of data is stored in one synthetic symbol ZES 12-07. In the instrument manager, ZES is equivalent to ES except, the exchange is set to default and the mapping is set to a non-existing symbol. This prevents Ninja from attempting to download real-time data. Data was imported with the intention of using it for backtesting and optimization.
Summary #3: My guess is that charts work with 1 minute or greater intervals because 1 minute bars were greated during the import by Ninja. Perhaps, tick based chart intervals will not work because of the shear amount of data, 34 million ticks over 19 months.
Question: If tick data is imported into a synthetic symbol, can a chart display bars using tick data and not just 1-minute or greater intervals? Is this a known problem in Ninja or am I doing something wrong?
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