Newbie questions

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1- Simulated Trading - is it possible to apply and enable numerous strategies in separate chart windows to the same symbol & demo account or will the entries/exits be set off against each other?

2- Why is it necessary to close all open scripts before importing another?

3- After setting the commissions NUMEROUS TIMES according to instructions in strategy development why do performance reports NOT SHOW the commissions despite the commission definitions being saved and APPLY COMMISSIONS TO Pnl calculations being selected - why is this so difficult? Is there a method that actually works or do commissions only show up in the non demo version?

4- How is it possible to set SLIPPAGE on a global basis other than on applying each strategy? Can slippage and commissions be set programatically in Ninjascript code? If so, how?

5- Why does the Strategy Performance report always default to PERCENT? Is there a way to set it so the default is Currency?

6-Inability to COPY and PASTE a chart with a strategy and all chart settings doubles the time to manage workspaces - any idea when this will be implemented?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the questions.

1. This is possible to enable multiple strategies on multiple charts. You can also do this for the same instrument, although this would not necessarily be recommended. Strategies can not see each other to know what the other is doing when it submits orders. If there is any logic that submits an order that would generate a problem in the other strategy this could be an issue. Instead it is generally recommended to combine multiple strategies into a single one to run one instance on the instrument.

2. This is likely to prevent you from creating errors after the import. Think of this situation, you have a item downloaded from the forum and open and edit the file in the platform. You have that file open in the editor and then import a different zip that contains the same file that is currently open in the editor. If the safe guard was not there, after the import happens and you go back to that script and compile, you have saved over the newly imported file with an old copy instead of working with the version that was just imported.

3. This depends, are you referring to a backtest, replay or just in general when you enable the strategy? In general, the commission needs set up in the options menu for the Connection and Type of instrument. So for the Sim101 account and MSFT I would choose the Stocks - Simulator if I wanted commission applied to my strategies trades in Sim. Can you provide more details on where you are not seeing commissions?

4. Slippage can be set in a strategy using NinjaScript or in the backtest properties: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...htsub=slippage

5. The performance reports were designed this way, percent is first in the list so it is default. Unfortunately there is no setting for this in NinjaTrader currently so you would need to select the other setting that is relevant to your needs.

6. This is an item that has come up a lot, this is resolved in NinjaTrader 8 as it uses a tab and window system now. Unfortunately there is no way around this in 7 currently. The closest to this in 7 would be a chart template, that can take indicators and chart settings over but strategies are held in the control center so those can not be duplicated with a template.

I look forward to being of further assistance.