I am going a bit crazy trying to get multiple months of data to back test with.
I have been on a path of trying various things but nothing seems to work consistantly. I have been using Ninja for over a year and am on the lastest release with Zen-Fire and as of today eSignal for historical data to backtest with.
First, I tried to merge contracts as time went on like YM 03-08 into YM 06-08 and built my data that way never really worked right.
I also tried to load multiple years of data from a Tradestation file, that did not work, Ninja would not see past my merged contracts.
Today, I purchased an esignal feed so that I could get a continous contract.
However, I can't seem to get Ninja to pull up more than a couple of months of data from the esignal feed. (I have the symbol mapped as YM #F) in the instrument mapping.
It seems that Ninja thinks it should use the data that I previously merged or recorded instead of using the eSignal data.
So then I deleted historical data from the YM 12-08 instrument to 9/16/08 figuring that if I asked for a 2 year chart Ninja would look to esignal for the data before 9/16/08.
I also repaired the database.
No luck.
All I want to do is have Ninja pull up a chart (using the YM #F) continuious esignal contract so that I can backtest a year or 2. This is the whole reason I got the eSignal data feed today.
Can you tell me how I can get Ninja to pull up a multi-year 5 minute chart for the YM #F continuous contract?
Thanks.....
Mark
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