Positive First Impressions

[Aussie2]

Hello,

VERY POSITIVE FIRST IMPRESSIONS

I have been testing NTv7B2 for several days now, and commend Ray and the team for their outstanding efforts.

Testing including loading NT onto 32 and 64 bit machines, and porting NTv6.5 data etc generally occurred without difficulty. Modifying strategy signatures went well using Intellisense, except that a faulty signature in a user defined method statement compiled without error, and instead a run time error for the faulty signature appeared in the Control Centre Log tab! (Other instances of this have already been reported.)

After fully testing the Strategy Analyser, and the Optimiser, I can say that the speed enhancements are a stand out winner and greatly appreciated. Inspection of CPU Usage & Performance with Windows Task Manager shows full use of all cores on quod core machines, and particularly low RAM consumption. (I tested a lengthy strategy on 2 years of 24/5 1 minute data) I also especially appreciated the improvements to the Strategy Analyser>Settings tab so that optimised settings can now be easily read and saved to Excel. Similarly changes to the Splash screen when loading NT, and database storage changes to dramatically improved performance are greatly appreciated. Thanks for these Ray.

BUGS
The only identified and yet unreported bug relates to faulty Graphics in the Control Centre>Strategies tab. The layout is different from other tabs such as for example the Executions, Positions and Accounts tabs. (There appears to be additional blank space on the LHS, and the blank area below titles is not in a different colour.) Is this intentional? Similarly when a strategy is loaded the left side of the table appears faulty. Are others experiencing this?

SUGGESTIONS
Additional suggestions:

1. Automatic loading of the default chart template into the Optimiser chart window, would greatly assist in strategy development. At the moment when trade results are printed to the Optimiser chart, and you wish to compare results to indicator values you have to manually add each indicator along with its settings for each optimisation run. If the default template was applied to the optimiser chart window then this could occur automatically.

2. When using the Strategy Analyser with the Optimise tab pinned to the window, a mouse wheel scroll alternates through the available strategies list, and this results in the loss of any currently optimised settings. Surely it should scroll through Optimiser settings by moving the vertical scroll bar?

3. Sort assets like futures by year then month, rather than month then year, so that the most recent future drops to the bottom of the list.
Once again well done.

Aussie2

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Thanks for the feedback. Someone will comment on the bugs and suggestions on Monday.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Bug: This was intentional since through our own internal testing showed, the alternative view looked much worse than the newly implemented multi-grid.

Suggestions:
1. You could program your strategy to automatically draw the indicators you want via Add() in Initialize().

2. The mouse wheel depends on where you have focus. If you have focus on the strategy selector that is what will be scrolled. If you had focus in the optimizer results, it would scroll that.

3. Thank you for the suggestion.

[Aussie2]

Suggestions

Bug: This was intentional since through our own internal testing showed, the alternative view looked much worse than the newly implemented multi-grid.

Suggestions:
1. You could program your strategy to automatically draw the indicators you want via Add() in Initialize().

2. The mouse wheel depends on where you have focus. If you have focus on the strategy selector that is what will be scrolled. If you had focus in the optimizer results, it would scroll that.

3. Thank you for the suggestion.

Hi Josh

Refering to above points

1. Prior to version 7 I have been unable to get my strategies to add indicators to lower chart panels. Is there a way of getting a strategy to add a lower panel to a chart in NT7B2 and draw an indicator in it?

2. Noted

3. I liked this suggestion to sort assets differently !! Would help when up late and tired !

Thanks again.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

1. You need to assign the panel you want it to draw onto as per this tip: http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=3228

[Aussie2]

Indicator loaded by a strategy to assist when optimising

1. You need to assign the panel you want it to draw onto as per this tip: http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=3228

Thanks Josh. Much appreciated.

For the information of others who may be interested I got it working with the following code. (Note in Strategy ForceMaximumBarsLookBack256 must be false, and in indicator Initialise must include Overlay also set to false)

protected override void Initialize()
{
ForceMaximumBarsLookBack256=false;
mySMA(10).Plots[0].Pen.Color = Color.Orange;
mySMA(10).PanelUI = 3;
mySMA(20).Plots[0].Pen.Color = Color.Green;
mySMA(20).PanelUI = 4;
Add(mySMA(10));
Add(mySMA(20));

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Note: ForceMaximumBarsLookBack256 is false by default. No need to set is explicitly or worry about it if it's not needed.