Playback to a specific TIME as well as date

[grzltn]

Hi team,

When testing an indicator or strategy it would be clutch to EASILY be able to forward to an exact TIME, not just the date. You can try this using the slider but it is just painful to try and get close. Say an event of interest is at say 15:32:20 and to test you need to start at this point some 10 or 20 times to understand the behavior of an indicator and strategy and test code changes.

An implementation could work simply as if no time is set, it works as is but if set each time the [Start] is clicked it will start at the specified time?

I know this would make my existence so much more enjoyable and I hope others would too? (so please up-vote folks!).

Warmest, Grzltn

[marcus2300]

This option exists already.
You should go to CONNECTIONS, change the connection and use PLAYBACK
In PLAYBACK mode you see this screen

Put your cursor on the START date and right click.
You will see a new screen opening:

Select now GO TO and you will see the next screen opening:

Now you can change the date and time like you wish.
The charts will start to run from that time and date on.
You can each time start again from that date, or from another date if you wish.
You can also change the speed of going forward (in the first screen)

To use PLAYBACK you should export your data to use that data as source. I use HISTORICAL as it is easier to download and data is good.
I did in past a lot of simulations, re-running all the time to see the behavior of my indicators. If you don't work with CLOSE of each bar, this testing is essential to have have correct results as values of indicators change all the time till the CLOSE.

[marcus2300]

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/NT%20HelpGuide%20English.html?tick_replay.htm

[grzltn]

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ick_replay.htm

Thank you Marcus - that was well disguised. Have used NT for years and never saw it. Perfect outcome