Historical intraday futures data

[joolean]

Hi,

I have two years of historical tick data for the asx SFE SPI 200 and cannot get it into NT as a futures contract.

When I import it, it comes in as imported stock data.

I have a text file called SPI.txt with two years of continuous contract data in the following format
20060103 095000;4749;10

I can export the data in any format if continuous is a problem.

I've tried creating the futures contract first before importing the data but it makes no difference. I was able to view it as stock data in version 6, but since moving to 6.5, I can't even see that.

Regards,
Julian.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

The name of the file needs to match an existing (!) NT instrument.

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

[joolean]

Thanks for the prompt reply Dierk but I've read that help and tried that already. The name of the future is SPI and the filename is SPI.txt.

What am I missing?

I read another thread where they used the name with a contract extension so I've also tried SPI ##-##.txt for a continuous contract.

I don't have any live data feed. Does that make a difference?

Regards,
Julian.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Please make sure you have "SPI ##-##" e.g. in your default instrument list.

[joolean]

Huzzah!

Thanks for your help and patience Dierk. I'm not sure what I did differently this time but it's finally working.

Cheers,
Julian.