I'm sorry for the long response I never intended to do that, there is no rush at all in getting back to me and a short response with a general direction is fine, I don't need every question explicitly answered the came to me as i was writing this. This data recording, processing, back testing etc is not a simple concept with many subtleties. But for those of us who need to make a living doing this you really need to understand it thoroughly.
Thank you for the informative response. I always learn something new f along with getting my issue resolved which is awesome.
I had a OneDrive calamity yesterday and had to reinstall NT8 with the help of Zachary and others, and manually copy over all the customizable components and there may be one of two settings I was running with that I have to reenable/disable.
I have to admit this I am a little confused about the relationship between the Chart Tick Replay you mentioned, the Tools - Option Box "Show tick replay" , Tools Options "Enable market recording for playback" and Tools Options "Record Live data as historical" . Playback101 mode for tick or historical.
Her are my settings (attached) now. I noticed after the reinstall Enable market recording for for playback' is not checked. It was previously checked because every time I wanted to connect and download a days tick data to test a strategy on Playback101 I had uncheck that box, and usually check it back when I download the data.
If I can download the tick data anytime do I need to "enable market recording for playback" all the time?
Does having that checked actually record all the ticks for that instruments and why would someone need to do that?
What does "Record data as Historical" do" NT servers can supply all the historical data you need by setting the Data Series Days parameter?
What would be the point of running Playback101 testing a strategy using the rebuild Historical data?
I'm trying to get as close to real market fills as possible so isn't it more accurate to replay the tick data?
I did try to find the answers myself it's not fair to ask questions that are easily found in the doc, but this is confusing to me after reading the doc. I saw some code on how to process tick data within a strategy but the strategy would need to be coded for that purpose. Is that a way of getting a more accurate back test without doing a Playback101 session. The doc said that processing the data as historical didn't seem to provide more accuracy then tick by tick, and market fill resolution is a better option then what the purpose of processing by historical.
My understanding is that to run Playback I have to download the tick data one day at a time from the server.
Before I can do that I believe I have to disable the "enable Market for playback" box?
What I want to accomplish is have some means of doing the most accurate back test possible without bogging down my computer in the process.as accurate.
I am fine with manually downloading tick data one day at a time for the symbols I want to trade. Does this suggest turning off "enable market recording for playback?
Yesterday when I reinstalled and copy over everything manually, this biggest files looked like tick data for many symbols. If I'm not coding my strategy for processing ticks and the strategy analyzer does not yet have that capability, and the data is available on NT servers then what should my settings be?
Manfred I'm sorry for asking too many questions. Since COVID this is how I support my family and not doing such as good job at it or else I would never burden all you guys with questions that I probably should have gotten answers from the doc. The doc is for the most part beyond excellent. I was in IT for 30 years and wrote tons of doc and NT is the best I've seen for any product. I usually "get it" but can't quite put the pieces of this data recording set in my head. So I appreciate your help and apologize for all the questions.
Thank you
glen
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