backtesting a strategy does nothing

[shaulgr]

Hello,

I am new to NinjaTrader. I connected to Kinetic (I also tried simulated data feed). I created a basic strategy following instruction in Youtube. The strategy code is attached. When I try to backtest it, the backtesting finishes immediately and returns a summary with zeros everywhere. No error message is issued. The NinjaTrader log is also attached.
What can be the reason for this? Please help.

Thanks,
Shaul

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Welcome to our forums, have replied this morning to your support inquiry as well.

Which chart and instrument are you testing on here please?

[shaulgr]

From your question I understand my problem. The Type parameter of the backtest pane has a default of Minute, and I must use Day because of Kinetic.
So I used the sample MA crossover with a Type of Day, and it worked. Thanks!

One other question: the summary gave a gross profit of $20000 for only 5 trades during the year. Does this make sense ?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

If you're using the free Kinetick End of Day connection, you will need to run the test on a Daily interval.

If you cannot get any results with your strategy using AAPL on a Daily interval, can you please run a test on the SampleMACrossOver strategy using a Daily interval while connected to Kinetick.

[shaulgr]

I edited my previous reply (to which you replied with incredible speed!). Can you please look at the edited reply?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Glad to hear you were able to get it to work.

Yes, it would be possible to get a PnL of that size depending on how many points were obtained in the position.