Measuring lenght of historic data in an instrument

[TakisTakis]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone around here know how to measure the length of historic data in an instrument ?

I have integrated many histories but I do not remember their periods and I would like to be able to test that: get an answer of how many bars I have, which periods or something similar.

Thanks an advance

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherJ]

Hello Takis Takis,

Thank you for your post.

Are you referring to measuring the number of bars within your chart window? If so within NinjaTrader 7 you may use the Measuring Tool which can be found within the Drawing Object drop down window. To use this tool please select-->Left mouse click where you would like the measurement to begin-->Left mouse click where you would like it to end-->move your mouse to a spot where you would like the information box and left mouse click again.

I have provided a link below to our Help Guide that goes over Drawing Tools and Objects.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/working_with_drawing_tools__ob.htm

Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.

[TakisTakis]

Well

Thanks Christopher,

I have said it before but I will say it again and again that the speed of your responses just rocks!

While your answer learned me something I didnt know, my question was more aimed at learning how to confirm whether a given instrument has historic data or not.

I downloaded quite many but I do not remember which ones are !

Within the sttrategy analyzer at the left i have a long list of instruments. However, among them there are some that I have not downloaded history and I do not aim at doing either.

All I want to know is which of my instruments do have historic data and if possible to know how long their history is , PRIOR attempting a strategy backtesting.

I hope I managed to explain my thoughs better this time

Kind Regards and again thanks for answering so fast the previous one!

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherJ]

Thank you for the kind words. The only way to really check how much historical data you have manually is to either open a chart of the instrument to verify or if you are running NinjaTrader 7 you can go to Tools-->Historical Data Manager-->Edit tab and view all data that is available.

[TakisTakis]

Awesome, that was exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks!