Ninjatrader 8 Beta Testing

[piyushc]

My opinion on the issue:
1. NT8 Beta is long overdue
2. That Beta Version can be introduced with - No Real-Time Trading function or rather, the limitation.
3. The Features introduced remain under Subject To Change Notice.
4. One instance each of NT7 & NT8 Beta can be run on the same computer simultaneously & may be drawing the same data-feed.

[Yandychang]

I understand that, I think the issue arises For example:
If I want stocks with the following characteristics:
Period Monthly. then I plan to look for signals in the daily and weekly periods.
Trigger to put them on My list is:
Close( Monthly) above Bollinger Bands higher.
A trend, momentum and volume indicators are also taken into consideration...

For the next month, one or two of these parameters may not apply. They may not apply because the market is on correction and the month's close was below Bollinger band upper limit( Maybe a bar down). Still, the overall trend of the instrument is bullish, the only thing that changed was one parameter, and if I do a scan next month, this instrument will not be there. This would actually be detrimental to the strategy because it would defeat the purpose of buy low, sell high.
I could do this manually, go to another website, do the scan and keep doing this every month adding the instrument with new signals. Then every month I would need to scan my list and take off those who have another set of parameter that correlate with the instrument changing bias.

Maybe It can be done and I don't know it yet, but every time I think of an idea, I search it to see how I could do it. Searching this idea, did not give me results...

[LTWCI]

Ninja Trader 8 request:

In the account performance section in control center--to have the ability to generate the performance data of individual strategies per instrument. It would save a lot of time. Correct me if I am wrong, but you can only compare ATM strategies under Templates. I currently save all the sim and live strategy results to Excel--which is great, but very time consuming when comparing strategy results over months.

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello LTWCI,

Thanks for your feature request.

I have sent this to development to take into consideration.

[egan857]

I agree with Sledge and Jeronymite that a buggy beta is a Bad Thing. Guys, you're never going to win the race against new feature requests. We traders will always come up with new ideas faster than you can code them, so please don't try to cram every last request into the beta. Major releases should include big-ticket items and features that aren't backward-compatible. Additional features that build on that framework should go into release 8.1. FWIW, I recommend you guys just draw a line in the sand; limit NT8 to what's working now, what is partially developed and can't be pulled out, and new feature requests that aren't backward-compatible. Then, communicate what items made the grade, what's being pushed to 8.1 or 8.2, and estimates (not commitments) on completion. If you decide to add a new last-minute feature later, communicate that and how much time it'll add to the deadline. Chances are that if you liked it that much, we will too and we'll be willing to wait for it. We're all excited about the new product. More communication adds to the excitement; no communication makes us anxious. Keep up the great work.

[BBilotta]

Sledge, Jeronymite,

You're both correct, which is why i said I'm not asking for an early release, i'm not asking for any release, i'm not even asking for a release date. What i am saying is that NT should be filling us in with something. Some guideline as to what we can expect and a "general" timeline as to what their plans are.

Do they do they, for instance, anticipate (NOTE "ANTICIPATE") another month to Beta? 6 months to Beta? A year to Beta???

If they were more transparent they could then issue updates whenever they think the schedule will change for whatever reason. most of us understand the intricacies of building a system and reasons for delay.

For me i think it's moot anyway. It looks like I'll be moving to IRT in the next couple of weeks or so. The more I trade the less "stuff" i need with which to trade. some volume profile, one very minor customer indicator and a particular bar type is all i really need.

VP is integral to IRT so no need for 3rd party indicators, at least for me. I do wish you all well with NT when it eventually comes out.

[RedDuke]

Sledge, Jeronymite,

.......The more I trade the less "stuff" i need with which to trade. some volume profile, one very minor customer indicator and a particular bar type is all i really need.

......

Hi,
Just curious, if that's all you need, why NT7 does not work for you?
Thanks,
redduke

[skann29]

NetChange % and price change

Not sure if this feature is available in NT8. Would like to have Netchange % and price change as a default feature in the chart screen. Now I am using a custom indicator, but dont really like and not precise like other charting packages. Thanks in advance.

[skann29]

External Connection and data timestamp

I have an utility streaming the quotes to .txt file. Using NT external connection to stream the charts from the .txt file. The .txt file contains the timestamp from a different timezone. Unless I change the system time to different timezone(GMT), the chart streaming and backfilling not taking please. I use the same kind of setup for another charting package which works fine. Can we expect this issue to be fixed in NT8.

[skann29]

Import Utility enhancement

This is a nightmare issue for me, whenever I import some indicator and if the import is not successful or screws up NT, we dont really know what indicator is causing the issue. After the fact, when I want to import or edit an indicator(Something else), it just throws a general message saying there is an error without pointing the bad indicator that is causing this issue. Couple of times, I happen to do a complete cleanup and reinstall of NT7 and restore with the backup.

Can we expect to fix this or atleast can we have some provision somewhere to see the details of the error, so we can delete the indicator that is causing the issue. Thanks in advance.

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I will submit your feature requests to development.

For compile errors please see the following forum topic.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=4678

[LTWCI]

I'm requesting that "tick" be a choice in the Price Data menu in the condition builder. I am working on exit conditions for my strategies. Also, I would like to be able to use an indicator on bar closed= True or False in a strategy independent of the strategy as a whole. In other words, same as we presently can do on a chart--set each indicator to be set to bar close= True or False singly. Would be a game changer if we could do that within a strategy.

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello LTWCI,

Thanks for your post.

To clarify are you saying that you would like to be able to add a second data series within the Strategy Wizard. For example you would run the strategy on a 1 minute chart however you may be placing your orders from SMA's that cross based off of a 150 tick data series?

[LTWCI]

I would like to be able to use an exit condition using an indicator with bar closed being False, but have every other condition involving entry in the strategy following bar close = True.

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello LTWCI,

Thanks for the clarification.

I will submit your feature request to development.