My problem is simple, I backtest a stategy that use hundreds of symbols. Unfortunatly, from what I read and experiments, Ninjatrader have a "feature" that prevent the backtest from computing itself if only one symbol is missing. Furthermore, it seem that, if all symbol do have some data, the backtest will only work from the newest starting point.
For example: I want to back test from 2001 to 2009 (using Daily/Months bars) I only get result starting form 2008 to 2009 because some symbol(s) somewhere do not have 2001->2008 data (which is perfectly understandable)
This is all fine and good, I can understand the reasons behind this, however, I failed to discover where I could get the information on which symbol(s) has missing data. (So I can remove them and backtest with the other at least)
Last weeks I have checked every single symbol using the chart windows and noted all the symbols who didn't had data to 2001. I then removed them from my lists and obviously, since I'm human, I missed some it seem.
I failed to figure out a way to automatise something that would tell me the oldest day of each symbols on my list (since NT trunk valid data). So if there is somewhere I can get which symbol(s) are the bottleneck or an idea to automatise the retrieval of the oldest dates of each symbol I'd be grateful.
Thank you in advance.
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