Was hoping to get some input on the following issue. During the last few days my NT8 has been pretty much frozen/lagging during the first half of the day due to the high volatility and volumes.
I have had this issue before and was hoping for some ideas on the best way to deal with this problem or is it just a limitation in the architecture design of NT8. The freezing is due to screen
rendering where many times the charts are lagging 15 - 30 minutes behind the market. The DOM is always accurate reflecting correct prices, it is only the charts that lag.
Some background
My computer resources are never really taxed during these episodes. I am never using more then 50% of my available memory or CPU.
I only trade one instrument which is the NQ. so the vast majority of my screens (charts) are for a single instrument I use tabs for my charts and usually have 4 charts active and
visable for the NQ and 2 for the ES.
I trade orderflow so most of my charts are tick based but I am careful and other then footprint charts set updates to occur on Bar Close for the majority of my indicators.
The problem seems to be exasperated with the NQ, if I use my same workspace, charts and indicators but monitor the ES the problem usually does not surface
I have run the Ninjascript Utilization Monitor throughout the day and vast majority of time is being spent on the NT Orderflow Footprint and NT Orderflow Volume Profile
which I would expect.
Being a user of Ninja for many years I routinely rebuild my entire environment from scratch every 60 days, I have found this seems to help prevent lots of mysterious problems that seem
to happen with a install and DB that has been around for some time. I clear all my caches and logs every morning as part of my startup process.
I am hoping to get some ideas around the architecture of the system. Is there anything I can do from a setup or architecture perspective to address this. Am I using a worst case environment (tick charts, one instrument, order flow, etc) and this is what I should expect.? Do I need multiple instances of Ninja Trader (licenses) to distribute the work?
Any input or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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