Forward testing beyond the 90 days? is this possible?

[tullips]

Hello guys. The strategy (robot) I have developed is based on an indicator that fires signals to buy and sell. So, I cannot use the regular back tester or (I wish) optimizer.

But what I was reading, NT is limited to 90 days of playback only, where I would like to run it for the whole last year (for example, ES 03-24, 06-24 etc)

I do not mind running it from rollover until rollover; that is fine. This would give a more honest result. I do have a Kinetic account, but this is only good for backtesting.

When I download the data using the Historical data tool, it still will not allow a playback before December 12th (90 days)
I would even be happy with playback on historical data as my robot is not tick sensitive (it is on price, but I did see the difference between a 1 minute or 1 hour was not that it would make a huge difference)

So, my questions to the forum:

• Can I download the data, import it, and forward the test? (this would be awesome)
• Do I still need Kinetick? (it did work fine just using the data I have from NT)
• Other tricks I can use to get similar results?

ps: I did program the same as a strategy, and it somehow is working the same. But this way I need to maintain 2 different programs, where a strategy does not work the same as my robot based on an indicator base. My robot fires on price, so it does not pre-define the orders like in a strategy (not really sure if I wrote this so it can be understood)​

[NinjaTrader_Erick]

Hello tullips

Thank you for reaching out.

First, you would need to note which Playback you are using.

Market Replay - Can only play back up to 90 days from current date, and days need to be downloaded manually/individually.

Historical - Can only actually "playback" 1 year from current date, and data needs to be TICK and has to be downloaded based on active contract (Download 3 months of 03-24 / 12-23 / 09-23 etc)

Basically, the only way to "replay" more than 90 days, would be to download more than 90 days worth of Historical Tick data using your Market Data Provider connection.


The available historical data that populates within NT8 will depend on what data provider you connect to.

Connections that use the NinjaTrader Historical Data Servers are Rithmic, CQG based connections, and certain Forex connections when selected within the connection settings.

*The amount of historical data available for connections that do not use the NinjaTrader Historical Data Servers would be dependent on the provider and you may reach out to them for more information.

The amount of data stored on the NinjaTrader Historical Data Servers:

• historical tick data - 1 year
• historical minute/day data - usually 10+ years
• playback data - 90 days - Futures and Forex instruments only

Note this amount may vary slightly depending on the specific instrument.The only other way would be for you to find some other source to download a large amount of Tick data, and then import it to NT8.

You can research providers by Google searching "historical tick data download or download more historical data for NT8"

Note that the data has to be in specific format to be imported onto NT8.

• Guide: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...AndDataFormats
• Article: https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/ar...language=en_US

Let us know if we may be of further assistance.

[tullips]

Hello Erick

Thanks for responding. I did tried the market replay using historical data, and I was almost telling it does not work, but when I pasted the screenshot...I was hitting myself for my head....it defaults to this month...duhhh

Thanks again