Information or an example?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Correct EV, the reset will reload instrument definitions from the instruments.txt in the install folder - it would reset NT's default instruments and not affect your custom created ones (see disclaimer if you choose to do so).

[ETFVoyageur]

Thanks for all the help so far.

Now my next question -- I just added a list with about 480 stocks. So far, so good. Now I want to remove those stocks (I am going to replace them with a revised version of the list). How do I remove those stocks? All I can find is removing them one at a time.

--EV

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

You're welcome, correct the remove would be one at a time in the instrument manager unfortunately. The other option would be reloading the complete updated list via the instruments txt file...but I agree not a real dynamic workflow...

[ETFVoyageur]

You're welcome, correct the remove would be one at a time in the instrument manager unfortunately. The other option would be reloading the complete updated list via the instruments txt file...but I agree not a real dynamic workflow...

I do not understand about "reloading the complete updated list via the instruments txt file" Does the Market analyzer remember that I loaded a list, and track it? I presumed that once the list was loaded all that MA knew about was the stock symbols. If MA does track changes I make to the list itself, that would be workable.

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> I agree not a real dynamic workflow

That seems to be the point. I gather that I am trying to use it a lot more dynamically than was intended. Could you please figure out how to word it and put in a suggestion that it be upgraded to support dynamic use -- easy Instrument list maintenance (adding and removing hundreds of symbols), easy Market Analyzer dealing with adding and removing hundreds of symbols, etc?

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My next question -- I notice that you do not have descriptions for any of the ETFs. Is there any way that I can add them, if I wish to take the time? However I do it will have to survive a reset, because it looks as if I'll be doing a lot of resets. I did not see the ETFs in instruments.txt, so cannot just edit that. Whatever I do has to also survive a product upgrade. I don't want to lose all my work when moving to the next version (soon, I gather).

Thanks,
EV

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks for the feedback, we've added to our list for future consideration and will review it - for updating the list you would load your newly 'resetted' list fresh then in the MA. You can certainly add custom instruments such as ETF's, the instrument will not influence your custom ones...to save / backup I would suggest doing regular database copies.

[koganam]

... Is there any way to just add symbols in bulk to an instrument list and not get tied up in things that are only related to adding new instruments to the system?

Yes. Create a file with a list of the symbols and import the file.

[ETFVoyageur]

Yes. Create a file with a list of the symbols and import the file.

I do not understand -- that is the operation I was referring to. It sounds as if it is intended for adding new instruments to the system, complete with exchange and other information. Adding them to an instrument list is just a sideline.

What I need to do is just add the symbols to an instrument list, not add new symbols to the system. I could be wrong, but it did not look to me as if the operation you refer to is intended for that purpose.

--EV

[ETFVoyageur]

Thanks for the feedback, we've added to our list for future consideration and will review it - for updating the list you would load your newly 'resetted' list fresh then in the MA. You can certainly add custom instruments such as ETF's, the instrument will not influence your custom ones...to save / backup I would suggest doing regular database copies.

I'm having trouble parsing that. I'll think about it.

--EV

[koganam]

I do not know what the intent was.

But that is how I add a new instrument list to the Market Analyzer when I decide that the market has changed significantly, and I do a new scan in thinkorswim to find my new tracking list.

I do the scan in thinkorswim, export the symbols to a list, and import the list into a new instrument list, then populate the Market Analyzer. Because of my "volume" screening criteria, so far, all the symbols that I find in my screen, are already in the instrument Manager anyway. Maybe that Is why I have not yet come a cropper?

[ETFVoyageur]

nm -- I forgot that I have to go explicitly set daily data

[ETFVoyageur]

I do not know what the intent was.

But that is how I add a new instrument list to the Market Analyzer when I decide that the market has changed significantly, and I do a new scan in thinkorswim to find my new tracking list.

I do the scan in thinkorswim, export the symbols to a list, and import the list into a new instrument list, then populate the Market Analyzer. Because of my "volume" screening criteria, so far, all the symbols that I find in my screen, are already in the instrument Manager anyway. Maybe that Is why I have not yet come a cropper?

I tried your way and it does not work for me. Importing the symbol list goes without complaint. I can insert the symbols into the Market Analyzer. However some of the symbols get their indicator columns filled in, and some do not. I tried it several times, checking everything I can think of -- same problem every time. I went back to putting the list at the end of instruments.txt and it works perfectly. Guaranteed same symbols -- I cut-and-pasted the contents of the file that I had imported.

I also have a smaller list (about 80 symbols) that I created using the arrow button. That list works fine, too. The only one that does not is the one I created using the import operation.

I have no hypothesis for what is happening -- just the observation that one way reproducibly works, and the other way equally reproducibly does not.

--EV

[ETFVoyageur]

None of the ETF have a description. Is there a way I can add that? I note that when you import a list, it is symbols only.

--EV

[ETFVoyageur]

I guess this is just a comment on this user's expectations in the Market Analyzer.

Labels are a sort of a section delimiter, in that sorting does not extend across a label -- each "section" sorts within itself.

I have a simple setup consisting of label, rows of data, label , more rows of data -- i.e. 2 sections. I just deleted the data rows in the first section, in preparation for replacing them. Sure enough, the section shrank as I deleted rows -- just what I would expect.

Then I inserted a blank row, and right-moused on it and inserted a list. I was most surprised to discover that the first element of my list went to that blank row, and the whole rest of the list went to the end of the OTHER section. I had expected it to go into the first section -- automatically expanding it as needed.

Unless I am missing something, there is no sane way to replace any section but the last. You can delete the rows in the first section, but then you have to add 400+ rows back, one at a time. Not good.

I guess the moral is that you should not have more than one section in a single market analyzer window, because updates to the stocks list are much too clumsy. That's too bad.

Am I missing something? Is there a good way to get the first section filled with the replacement list?

--EV

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks for the feedback EV, this would be expected unfortunately - I'll note it down as feedback / enhancement suggestion for future consideration though.

[ETFVoyageur]

I understand that it is as intended, not a bug.

I am just suggesting that you consider making the sections more completely sections instead of having them just affect sorting. The way they are is quite impractical for my case, where I have a lot of entries in each, and I expect to be able to replace the entries regularly.

Thanks for noting that and submitting the suggestion.

I presume that since on one else has remarked on this, my usage is unusual, though.

--EV