Bulk Addition of Instruments

[RaddiFX]

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I made an addon to open a strategy automatically based on a scanner I made. One of the issues I recently noticed is that its not creating about 5% of the hits. I found the reason it's not hitting them is because the instruments don't exist in ninjatrader.

This brings me to my question, Is there(in order from least desirable, to most desirable) a way to:
1. add instruments in bulk?
2. add instruments through a ninjascript?
3. I had a 3rd but realized there's no way to do so without pasting the whole of the code here, and it's still confidential.

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello RaddiFX,

Thank you for your post.

Custom instruments cannot be added in bulk, they must be configured individually.

There are no supported NinjaScript methods or properties available for creating a custom instrument.

If you need to add a new instrument that exists to NinjaTrader 8, you could certainly do so.

Note that you would need to research which data provider will provide this instrument and information for charting and create a new instrument in the database.

See this help guide page for information about adding an instrument to the Tools > Instruments window:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/manage_database.htm

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

[RaddiFX]

I found another option, I used Tools->Import->StockSymbolList to import all of the ~10,000 tickers that currently exist on the market. However I wanted to go one step further and wanted to find out how bad of an idea it is first.

If I wanted to create a FULL list, I'd need to import 12,000,000(26x26x26x26x26) ticker symbols. How badly would that bog down the database?