NT7 Spread Charts

[MicroAl]

Wiil we be able to plot more than one instrument on a chart in NT7?

For example I would like to be able to plot spreads. Also will it be able to
plot instruments relative to one another ie Gold/Oil etc?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

You will be able to plot multiple instruments on a chart and calculate what you need based on multiple instruments for an indicator.

[MicroAl]

Spread Charts etc

Excellent news

[richa61416]

I just tried to run a market replay with 2 range, and 5 range chart, a 3 min chart, and a 50 tick chart. got the error message. the 2 range and 5 range had a strategy each to run, with 2 other time frames embedded.
Got the message unable to load selected amount of chart data. Please select smaller time frame. Exception out of memory.

Is this a problem also in Ninja 7. I hope not, cause I have yet to develop a tick strategy due to the time it takes to test, and the out of memory errors.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

richa61416, yes NinjaTrader 7 will enhance performance greatly in those areas according to our tests - http://www.ninjatrader.com/webnew/NT7/NinjaTrader7.html

Apart from internal benchmarking and performance profiling, we took several real-world cases from customers to see some of the gains made in performance.
Case 1
Many tick based charts (tick, volume and seconds) on high volume futures markets. On application start up/workspace recovery:
Version 6.5 - Blew up after five minutes with an out of memory exception and 1.2 GB RAM peak usage
Version 7 - Application loaded after 75 seconds with peak RAM usage never exceeding 100 MB

Case 2
Backtesting of a multi-series strategy on a basket of instruments
Version 6.5 - Peak RAM usage of 1.3 GB and crashed with an out of memory exception at around 6 minutes
Version 7 - Peak RAM usage never exceeding 430 MB with a completion time of approximately 80 seconds
Case 3
Backtesting of our SampleMACrossOver strategy on 50 tick ES series on approximately three months of historical data
Version 6.5 - Peak RAM usage of 1.2 GB, 550 MB retained in memory after backtest completion in about 4 minutes
Version 7 - Peak RAM usage never exceeded 110 MB and backtest completion in about 40 seconds
Case 4
Backtesting of our SampleMACrossOver strategy on 50 tick ES series on approximately 1 year of historical data
Version 6.5 - Failed with out of memory exception
Version 7 - Peak RAM usage of 140 MB with a completion time of less than 3 minutes
These performance tests were performed on a standard Dell Inspiron laptop.

[richa61416]

Hmmm looks like it should be a great time saver and less stressful since it should not explode. Only question is when NInja 7 is released? Also, would it be able to trade live using Ninja 7, if it appears to work smoothly after about a month? Setting strategies every day is a bit stress in that one wrong setting can cost me dollars.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

richa61416, NinjaTrader 7's schedule and development process can be tracked here - http://www.ninjatrader.com/webnew/NT7/NinjaTrader7.html

You can trade live with your 6.5 license key if you're aware of the inherent risks of using a beta version...historically our beta phase lasted for about 2-3 months before the first production release was made.