I am just starting to try and play with NinjaTrader. eing a software engineer for 25 years I really appreciate platforms where I can see/write the code for what my strategies/backtests are doing. So, I'm excited about trying this out.
However, before I spend a lot of time investing in learning NT I wanted to double-check that the platorm can meet my requirements. Can I use NinjaTrader to backtest complex option trades like Butterflies, Iron Condors and the like? I don't want to have to enter the market for each contract for a Butterfly or Condor individually. I need to be able to enter the position as I do on ThinkOrSwim and have the whole position as a single limit price order.
Can I use it to backtest some of my strategies (finding entries for butterflies, making adjustements based on delta and theta, etc) on NT treating a series of mulitiple contracts as "one butterfly" or "one iron condor" position and have the greeks available for the position as a whole and make adjustments to the position as a whole?
And, if so, great!!!! I'm presuming then that it'd be easy enough to turn into a live automated trading strategy?
Thanks,
theTed
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