Adding all NASDQ Instruments automatically

[freewind]

Hi,

I'm developing an indicator that scan all NASDQ stocks.
The indicator use the ADD() to load each instrument data series.
NT7 comes with a default instruments already configured in the Instrument Manager but I need many more instruments and loading each instrument manually is a problem.

I found this thread

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?p=196272#poststop

and tried the method described there but it didn't work.

Is there another way to do it?

Your help is deeply appreciated!

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

Thanks for the note.

Unfortunately this is not possible.

Also, you may want to tread carefully on this if you choose to do it manually. As NinjaTrader has to open live feeds and charts for each instrument you Add(). Think of requesting the software to open 1000 plus charts all the same time. This will tax even super computers. I would not recommend that you do this.


Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[freewind]

I only plan to do it on historical daily data for 5-10 years back.

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

In this case you may be ok.

However it would still be a manual process however.

If this is any advantageous to you, you could have a txt file with all the nasdaq symbols in it and then add this in by using a loop and reading in the symbols from the text file. Let me know if you want more information on how to do this if you have a txt file with these symbols in it.


Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[freewind]

Hi Brett,

Yes I'm reading the symbols from a file but as I wrote before the problem is with symbols that are not already configured in the Instrument Manager, for them I get errors.
If there could be a way to load them automatically it could be great.

Thanks again!

[freewind]

OK I found the way to do it in NT7 documentation here.
I also downloaded and edit the symbols list for NYSE and NASDQ.
I'm attaching the files so whoever need it can do it also.

BTW it could be great if it will come as default in NT7 release!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks for sharing here freewind, we've noted your suggestion to add those per default.