About importing and transforming historical data

["CJS"]

Hi,

My broker offers me historical data in the following formats: ASCII text, CSV, Pipe-delimited and XML.

I am new in programming, and i would like to know what these type of data are, and averall the required procedure to transform in the type of data than can be used in NT for back tests. I am really interested in back testing the EUR with bid and ask prices.

I would appreciate information or a good source about this topic.

Thanks in davance.

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi "CJS",

Unfortunately, I am not deeply familiar with the details of each of those data types.

NinjaTrader supports data formatted in the following way:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/helpguide.html?Import

You may be able to easily convert the data by first opening it in MS Excel, which does some delimiting conversion, then copy/paste as necessary to be compatible with NinjaTrader.