How to monitor resources

[coolmoss]

I've been developing some strategies which started out very simply with perhaps a few dozen lines of actual executable code (not counting variable declarations, parameters and the like).

Over time, some of these strategies have ballooned to hundreds of lines. The vast majority is just assigning values to variables, and/or logic, and some basic indicator references (getting moving average values for example). My strategies tend to be run on Range bars and are COBC = FALSE.

My question is: is there a way to determine how much actual time Ninja takes to update a strategy for a tick? Or, some other performance metric(s) that tells me how much the strategy is impacting the available resources.

So far I haven't had any problems, but as I add more instruments and the strategies become ever more complex, I'd prefer to know, ahead of time, where I might get in trouble.

What is best way to monitor system performance and/or anticipate problems? Or is it really just a subjective and empirical thing, just need to wait and watch for any problems?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello,

The best way to ensure your functions are being called as you expected is to use Print statements and checking the System time they are being printed. More advanced method would be using .NET's Stopwatch Class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...stopwatch.aspx