Rithmic with Ninja slow down the PC performance during the high volatility hour

[Ray11]

Has anyone found a good solution to help the performance of the PC during the highly volatile hours (around 9-11 am EST)? I'm using rithmic as my data source and its is clear that the highly active market hours adds a lot of load on the computer. Its probably because there are a lot of data (ticks/ask/bid/last/volume) that rithmic sends to Ninjatrader. Does anyone have a good solution? I need the bid/ask/last data and I dont care about the volume and the dom but even aggregated data on rithmic doesn't seems to help.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Ray11,

The 'Calculate' setting for indicators and strategies is important. If set to 'On each tick' or 'On price change', the indicator/strategy will be calculated on each incoming tick or each price change. During high volatility this can be very CPU intensive especially if the indicator/strategy makes complicated calculations. If you set it to 'On bar close', the indicator/strategy will only be calculated at the end of each price bar.

Could it be you have workspaces opened in the background? Please go to Control Center-->Workspaces. If you see a green icon in front of the workspace, it indicates the workspace is opened and displayed on your monitor. If you see a grey icon, the workspace is opened in the background. Meaning you don't see its windows, but it will use PC resources. You can only have 1 workspace display on your monitor at a time. Please close the workspaces running in the background and check if the unresponsive behavior persists.

You can find more tips and suggestions to improve performance at the link below.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/performance_tips2.htm