Charting Bug

[Maxlobster]

You are only allowed to enter letters, digits, and the underscore in the Master Instrument Field within the Instrument Manger. The problem, BRK B is a valid ticker symbol using the IB data feed and can be entered into the Market Analyzer and will work just fine; however, if you use the "Send to --> Chart" menu command it will crash NT7.

You can , of course, enter the ticker into the Instrument Manger by renaming the ticker and dropping the space and then using the renamed instrument but this is a hassle and still leaves users susceptible to a crash if they manually enter tickers in the Market Analyzer that have a space or some other forbidden character.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Please provide full settings you are using with this instrument including exchanges, etc. Thank you.

[Maxlobster]

I just repeated the crash:
1) Connect to the IB feed
2) Select the open row in the Market Analyzer
3) Choose Add Instrument from the right-click menu
4) Choose Type: Stock, Name:BRK B, Exchange: Default
5) BRK B appears in the the row and works fine.
6) Choose "Send to --> Chart" and kapow a warning window comes up stating that NT7 has to shut down.
When NT7 comes back up the chart is frozen with "loading data" in the top left corner and BRK B is gone from the Market Analyzer row. I do believe the Market Analyzer is allowing characters (a space in this case) in the Master Instrument field that is causing NT7 to crash.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Maxlobster,

Thanks for the steps for the Market Analyzer part. Can you also please provide how exactly the instrument is setup and listed in the Instrument Manager too? Thanks.

[Maxlobster]

In the Instrument Manager the ticker is listed as follows:
Name: BRK B, Type: Stock, Description: (none), Tick Size: 0.01, Point Value 1

In the Instrument Edit window:
Master Instrument: BRK B
Exchanges: Arca, Default, Ise, Island, Nyse

Once you hit "Edit" you are stuck in the Instrument Edit window. If you select "OK" a warning box comes up "The 'Master Instrument' field only can hold letters and digits and underscore." Here's the the problem: the Market Analyzer is allowing the entry of forbidden characters in the Instrument Manager.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Thanks. I have forwarded it to development. In the meantime, please create a Master Instrument listing for your instrument without the space and just add the "BRK B" into the symbol mapping instead of in the Master Instrument name.