Market Analyzer Resource Usage

[nicbizz]

Hi,

I've read before that the real-time functions of NT (charting, MA, etc) uses only a single thread as opposed to backtesting/optimization which uses all available CPU power.

So, does that mean that if I use NT solely for Market Analyzer (albeit, with loads of loads of stock), I only need a single core CPU, and a dual/quad core would just be a waste?

I'm trying to decide which instance on Amazon EC2 to use, and if only a single core is utilized, then I can probably just go with an M1 Medium Instance (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/).

Thanks!

Regards,
Nick

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Using the market analyzer, a single core will only be used, however the next major release we're looking to add multi-threaded support. While we do not have an ETA on this version, it is something you should consider having support for in the future.

There are also other areas of the platform that are multi-threaded in NT7 such as in startup.