Excessive Indicator Window Delay

[NinjaTrader_EricB]

Hello aligator,

Thank you for your post. Calonious is on the right path (thank you!), this is usually caused by an indicator, or add-on in your current chart or workspace; finding the cause by removing indicators / add-ons until you're able to determine what is causing this behavior.

I also suggest having NinjaTrader launch without your saved workspace. This will help determine if the issue is indeed isolated to the workspace, or your NinjaTrader installation in general.

Note this will not remove any settings or data.


1. Shut down NinjaTrader
2. Navigate to the folder (My) Documents\NinjaTrader 7\workspaces
3. Delete the file named "_Workspaces.XML".
4. Right click on "Untitled1.xml"
5. Select Rename
6. Rename it to "Untitiled1 Old.xml"
7. After deleting and renaming the files above, restart NinjaTrader which should startup without any workspaces.
8. Once NinjaTrader has started on just the control center, please open a new chart and test for issue by opening the Indicators window, and adding indciators from your original charts to see which is causing the Indicator window to react slowly.

[Calonious]

This is usually due to having a lot of indicators (sometimes just one), typically custom/third party, as when you bring up the menu. There is a method that is called for all indicators so that it loads their properties properly in the window. Depending on the script/indicator and what it is doing in this method it can cause a delay like this to occur.

You can test by removing some of the extra scripts/indicators you have try the menu. This would give you a better idea of what indicator is causing the delay for loading the menu.

[aligator]

Dear NT Support,

For some reason when trying to bring up the Indicator window in NT7 in an open chart (any chart regardless of how simple or complex the chart is) , it takes a very long time (over 30 seconds) before the window appears. I load only 5 days of data for a 5M chart. There is no error generated.

Any reason or fix for this unusual delay for indicators window to appear?

Thanks.