market replay in NT7 - need help

[toddaclark]

Just started working with NT7. I see that market replay has changed a little from NT6.5. I've heard good things about NT7 market replay. I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong so I can get it to work for me.

I wanted to run market replay on CL for Friday's price action. I see with NT7 it has a replay "play" box which includes a calendar range of dates in addition to the pause/play, speed up buttons".

I selected friday for the begin data and friday for the end date. Nothing happened...I couldn't get NT7 to replay the price action from Friday. I then selected Thursday and Friday but nothing happened.

I've got my own data that I collected with 6.5 last week on CL but I want to know how to get the data from the NT servers as my data has gaps when I didn't have NT6.5 turned on. One of the things I like about NT7 is that you can supposedly pull data from NT servers so you don't have to record the data yourself and be subjected to gaps in data when you didn't have NT turned on, etc. Is that correct?

Please help.

Thanks,
Todd

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Todd,

Sounds like you simple don't have any replay data in NT7 so that is why the replay does not play anything. To get replay data please connect to a data provider and then go to File>Utilities>Download Replay Data. Select the instrument and the date and then it will download it from the server.

[toddaclark]

Josh,

NT asks me if I want to load L1 data or L2 and L2 data? L1 box is checked and L2 box is default as unchecked.

Is L1 usually enough for most users? When would someone need to download the L2 data?

Todd

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Todd,

L1 is enough for most people. L2 data would be market depth data in terms of Level II. If you have a specific need for this then you will want to download it as well, otherwise leaving it unchecked will save you download time and hard drive space.

[toddaclark]

Thanks, Josh!