loading instruments list INSIDE script

[Protis]

Hi,

I would like to load a whole instruments list INSIDE my script, rather than hardcoding adding hundreds or thousands of stocks line by line in my code. I need to use the data from all of them at once to construct my strategy. To be clear, I am not just trying to run a single-instrument strategy on a whole list of instruments (this I know how to do).

Do you have some sample code that can demonstrate this?
Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Protis, there would be unfortunately nothing supported for loading a complete instrument list in, however we have this on our list of feedback collected. I will make sure to add a vote on your behalf in to this item as well, for now an Add() line in Initializer() for your instruments desired would be needed as shown in our SampleMultiInstrument strategy shipped with NT.

[Protis]

Thanks Bertrand.

Perhaps if I loaded a file that contained the ticker names, I could code a loop which would call Add() on each ticker? This way I wouldn't need to hardcode a massive list of Add() calls..

Is this possible? And if so, is there any sample code available that might help me?

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Protis, you could be looking into this snippet here, although this is not a technique we officially could support -

NinjaTrader.Cbi.InstrumentList list1 = NinjaTrader.Cbi.InstrumentList.GetObject("your instrument list string");

foreach (Instrument i in list1.Instruments)
{
Add(i.FullName, PeriodType.Minute, 1); // add your type and period here
}

[Protis]

thank you very much!!