Own seperators in Backtest-Wizard

[DarthTraderson]

Hi,

I want to seperate some group of variables in the backtest wizard. I want to have an own part for my money-management-variables an own part for indicator-variables and so on ... should look like this:

===========
var1 = x
var2 = y
...
===========
period1 = z
....
===========

How can I achieve this?

Thx,
DT

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

DT, unfortunately not supported for NinjaTrader 6.5 - however you could structure all parameters with alphabetic prefixes for example to streamline the 'parameters'.

[DarthTraderson]

Hi, thx for the answer. I know that it is not supported ... but thought something could give me some hints how to achieve this ... because this is a user forum and other users maybe have some experiences with it ...

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

You're welcome, for sure everybody is invited to share their tweaks on our forums.

[Anagoge]

You can create new categories in the NT 6.5 (it may not work in 7.0) backtest property inspector like this:

        [Category("Stop")]
        public int StopATRDays
        {
           ....
        }

Expand the Properties folded code area in your strategy to edit the category attribute.

[DarthTraderson]

Thx Anagoge. I'll give it a try at the weekend ...

[DarthTraderson]

It works ... but after setting the category to Money-Management it is shown under the "Fill Processing" part.

How can I show it directly beneath "Parameters"?

[DarthTraderson]

Ok, I found it. I can use \t\t\t to arrange the sections. It behaves like inside each section with \t in front of the param-names.

[DarthTraderson]

Thought it worked ... but only in backtesting.

When using the strategies on a chart no parameter or stop section is shown, only when I use "parameters" for the category-name ....

[Ralph]

...When using the strategies on a chart no parameter or stop section is shown, only when I use "parameters" for the category-name ....

That's correct, category names others than parameters works for indicators only.

Regards
Ralph

[DarthTraderson]

Thank you for clarifying this. Thats curious. In backtesting mode it seems to work, but when I switch to live trading ... no parameters ... maybe it will change with NT7, because if you have a lot of parameters the wizard is looking very confusing ...