Strategy without historical data

[guillembm]

Hello,

I have a strategy that only requires real time data to be processed. To optimize the memory usage I would like to avoid loading historical data when starting the strategy but it seems at least one day has to be loaded.

Is there a way to avoid loading any historical data?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello guillembm,

You can limit the amount of historical data that is downloaded in the Data Series window on a chart, or the Data Series section of the Strategy window from the Strategies tab of the Control Center. In the Data Series window of a chart the Load data based on can be set to bars, and Bars to load can be set to 1. On the Strategy window from the Strategies tab, the least data you can add is 1 day.

You can also prevent your script from processing any historical data by adding if (!Historical) return; to the top of OnBarUpdate() in the script.