When in 2009 is NT7 expected? Re: Memory footprint

[bluelou]

Quote from NinjaTrader Ray:
"We wil be improving the memory footprint with NT7 due out in 09, but for now, you will have to see where you hit the wall."
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I'm wondering when the anticipated improvements to the memory footprint will be available that Ray mentioned would be included in NT7. 1Q09? 1H09? Later than that?

-BlueLou

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

The beta is slotted end of this year/early 09.

[bluelou]

Josh,
Whatever can be done to reduce the memory footprint will be greatly appreciated. I've never seen an application use more virtual memory.

Thank you for the info.

-Lou

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

We are on it for NT7. Thanks for voicing your concern.

[Elliott Wave]

WOW, over 400mb RAM used for 4 charts!

From what I understand, there should be noticeable gains simply by switching to .NET 3.x without changing a single line code. Combined with any other optimizations, NT7 should (hopefully) be much faster...

[Elliott Wave]

I never really paid attention to NT's ram usage before.

Here's a comparison between NinjaTrader running ONE chart, MetaTrader4 with multiple charts and more indicators during a backtest, explorer with 8 windows open, and Firefox 3 with 20 windows open.

[bluelou]

Elliott Wave,
Yes, it's a big concern of mine. I'm torn b/t using NT and OpenQuant after suffering under TradeStation for a year of live trading.

There's a lot to like about NT but the memory issue may force me to OpenQuant, at least as a backup. That's why I'm hedging my bets this time around by being prepared to run both platforms.

I haven't made a fair comparison just yet but I think OpenQuant is using far less than 1/2 the memory that NT is using for similar processes. FWIW, depending on the futures contract, I can require several weeks of tick data to run my trading algorithms. Given the memory issues with NT, I doubt I'll be able to run my strategy on more than 5-10 instruments simultaneously.

-Lou

[Elliott Wave]

I'd suggest getting more RAM and using NT

I have 2GB of RAM, and although thats enough for NinjaTrader, I also like to use my computer for other RAM intensive applications like VSTi's/sample libraries and having NT take a quarter of my RAM to display a chart is a real bummer...

Assuming NT7 takes full advantage of WPF this should help things, and I'm sure the developers will do everything they can in this area.

[bluelou]

E.W.,
I was told on another post here that Windows only allows 2GB per application. I have 6GB RAM. If you know of a way to allocate more RAM to an app then please let me know.

-Lou

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Originally Posted by bluelou

Another minus for NT:
Also, I read on the NT forum today that NT strategies post fills that are different from your actual account activity. That was a real mess in TradeStation and renders strategies to be nothing more than near-worthless MS Office-type macros that happen to have an order message attached.


-Lou

Completely inaccurate. NT strategies in real-time post the actual fills from strategy generated orders NOT virtual fills based on the backtest engine.

[bluelou]

Ray,
I apologize for the mistake. I've removed that portion of my post. After re-reading a post you made to Elliott Wave on 5/20 I now realize that you and E.W. were referring to simulation mode, not real-time trading.

-Lou

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

No problem at all, thanks for editing your post. Just want to make sure the information is accurate for future readers