Historical Playback Selection

[Austiner87]

Hi NT8,

In the playback remote window, there is a Market Reply option and a Historical option. The strategies I am testing don't use tick data or order flow, only bid/ask/close prices for minute bars, so I was hoping the historical selection could possibly replay my strategies faster. but when I select the Historical selection and hit the play button, the bar chart doesn't move. I have downloaded both Market Replay data and Historical data (trying EURUSD as a first test), but nothing happens, but I the bars do progress when I have the Market Replay selected. Can you please first confirm if the historical selection is meant to function the way I want (only giving bid/ask/close to make playback faster) and second how I can use it? Thank you!

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello Austiner87,

Thanks for your post.

Yes, when using Playback it is possible to use Historical Data that has been downloaded. To use Historical Data with Playback you would need to download historical tick and minute data for the instrument that you are wanting to use in Playback.

See the following from the Historical Data section of the Playback help guide page: When using Historical data for playback NinjaTrader will use historical tick data for playback. If the tick data from your provider is stamped with ask and bid data then NinjaTrader will use that to simulate the ask and bid price during playback.

Playback: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ePlaybackWorks

Let us know if we may assist further.