Bar data loading issue

[bboyle1234]

Why does this indicator load bar sets with conflicting data?

The indicator makes two requests for bar data. The requests are identical except for the start date.

Once both bar sets are loaded, the indicator extracts all bars from a particular day that both bar sets have in common, and dumps them to file. From a visual inspection of the file, we can see that while timestamp and volume information agrees, the close values conflict.

The data differences are screenshotted below with red boxes indicating different data areas.

The code is screenshotted below and also attached as a file below.

The output shown is from a test on NQ 09-18 on 22 August 2018.
The bar requests are for 1-tick bars.
My NT7 data options are set to "Merge Back Adjust"
Data provider is CQG.

The conflicting results are duplicable regardless of whether the data source is connected or not, and are identical after a complete restart of NT7 including a flush of the /db/ data folders.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello bboyle1234,

Thank you for your post.

The Bars.GetBars() functions is not supported and should not be used to compare data loading sets.

What were you attempting to achieve that led you to Bars.GetBars()?

I look forward to your response.

[bboyle1234]

Hi Patrick,
I was attempting to load historical tick data in order to fill in volume profile information.
Loading the tick data as a secondary data series for the indicator is not an option.
Thank you,
Ben

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello bboyle1234,

Thank you for your response.

May I ask why loading the Tick data as a secondary series is not desired? Loading a secondary series for 1 Tick is what is used in the Order Flow + tools for NinjaTrader 8 and serves what I suspect is your purpose as well.

I look forward to your response.

[bboyle1234]

Hi Patrick, it's too slow. Here's why.
For live trading, our users only need to show a few days back on their charts. With each chart loading only ten days back, for example, workspace loading can be very quick. However, our indicators require data aggregated from months of historical tick data. If the historical tick data is only available as a secondary chart series, then we are forcing the users to load charts with months of data back instead of just a few days.
When you apply this requirement to several indicators on many charts, as we have done, we have users with workspaces taking over half an hour to load, with NT7 unresponsive the entire time.
Therefore I aim to download the historical tick data separately, process it and provide results to the indicators.
Thank you for taking the time to understand, and I appreciate your help in obtaining an accurate supply of historical tick data information.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello bboyle1234,

Thank you for your response.

There would not be a supported means to work around the loading of data as intended for the NinjaTrader 7 platform.

BarsRequests are supported in NinjaTrader 8 for Add On development. This could be an option to allow for your custom data load and then supply that to your indicators. You can find more details at the following link: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...arsrequest.htm

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[bboyle1234]

I managed to obtain consistent data by using calls to bars.GetClose(i), bars.GetVolume(i), bars.GetTime(i) etc instead of Bars.GetBar(i)

[Denis399]

Hello bboyle1234,

Thank you for your response.

There would not be a supported means to work around the loading of data as intended for the NinjaTrader 7 platform.

BarsRequests are supported in NinjaTrader 8 for Add On development. This could be mycfavisit an option to allow for your custom data load and then supply that to your indicators. You can find more details at the following link: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...arsrequest.htm

Please let me know if you have any questions.

However, our indicators require data aggregated from months of historical tick data. If the historical tick data is only available as a secondary chart series, then we are forcing the users to load charts with months of data back instead of just a few days.

When you apply this requirement to several indicators on many charts, as we have done, we have users with workspaces taking over half an hour to load, with NT7 unresponsive the entire time.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello Denis399, thanks for your post, and welcome to the forums.

NinjaTrader 7 is out of the development cycle. NinjaTrader 8 now fully supports bars requests. See here for documentation:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/?barsrequest.htm

There is a full example of a full featured addon here:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/?addon_development_overview.htm

Please let me know if I can assist any further.