I've taken some historic data from NinjaTrader/IB and created a contract that spans over a longer period.
The data does import, but the problem that I have is this.
If I load the historic data first, then it autocreates definitions for the instrument - says its a "stock" and the tick value and point price cant be changed.
Besides that I was able to load the instrument onto an instrument list and use it for backtesting.
If I create the instrument first, and then load the data for it, the instrument then has the correct values,
but if I try and add it to an instrument list it keeps throwing the exception
"Unhandled exception: Instrument not found, there is likely a problem with how the instrument is defined in the database".
I am also unable to select the instrument in backtesting.
Any ideas how I can load the backtesting data and set the values?
Its historic data of CL that has a point value of 100, so with a default point value of 1 and adding commissions my testing results with commissions can be quite out.
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