I completely disagree with you. Ninja have outstanding support, credit where credit is due.

Having said that, I no longer use the platform, and on reflective moments when I am staring wistfully out the window marinating in past mistakes I admit to grinding irritation at having purchased the lifetime license which is no longer used.

Im not here to bash Ninja, I just wanted to point out that I disagreed with your sentiment about minimal support. When I was on their forums I always had prompt and helpful replies from members of the team.

Over the holidays I have been tooling around with NT8 looking to migrate to it for my normal trading. I have to say I really like the NT8 new features, fit and finish. Its a vast improvement over NT7.

Problem is for anything other than one simple chart of one intrument it seems to have a lot of issues ranging from graphics quirks to total crashes. There are strange results in scripting as well. My conclusion is that it is not really ready for heavy duty use which is too bad since I've become kind of hooked on it, its so much better than NT7.

What have other users experienced with NT8? Do you trust it well enough to trade with it? I am talking about more hard core use with custom scripts and such. Just wondering what other peoples experience is or if its just me having issues with it.

I will add my thoughts here. I purchased a lifetime license a few months back and am really disappointed. NT8 is slow and has a cumbersome feel to it. Compared to ThinkorSwim, it is like a tortoise and a hare comparison. I run 4 monitors on a very fast and robust system. ThinkorSwim functions in less than a blink of an eye and processes voluminous amounts of data in doing so. NT8 has lag and is very sluggish. I would not trust it for live trades. Support is minimal. This reminds me of software that you purchase that has a no refund policy and it simply becomes space on your hard drive because you can't bring yourself to delete it based on what you paid for it. I remember back in the 90's when Tradestation was selling their software. I purchased the full version at that time for around $2400. Several years later they changed their business model and no longer supported the paid versions that their customers had purchased. I believe NT is headed down that path. No one is going to trust this software in a few years and they will become irrelevant. The various forums related to trading are full of complaints about NT8 being sluggish and crashing and/or locking up. I see the same thing unfolding in the other forums that is unfolding here: support is not able to re-create what the requestor is complaining about and therefore, not able to resolve any matter. None of us want to beta test software when trading a live account and that is what NT8 is at this time. As traders, we have all spent thousands of dollars on software and vendors that we felt would help us to trade better. When that turns out not to be the case, we need to know when to discard the software or vendor and move on. Just like in a trade, we cut a loser lose and move on to the next trade. There are many robust trading platforms that are available to us traders. However, NT8 for me, is not one of them.

Hi,

I prefer to stick to NT7. I dont like NT8's crashes and the rest of it's operational problems. A friend of mine is also suspicious about NT8 and is wondreing IF the cause of these NT8's problems (crashes, etc) is any "spying" software (which obviously does not exist in NT7). I, myself, dont want to think about it, but I am very scepticist... We will see in the future... Until then I prefer to be conservative and stick to NT7 which is a very good and reliable software. This is my opinion. Thank you.

@NinjaTrader, how about an option to make this cleanout automatic?

Over the holidays I have been tooling around with NT8 looking to migrate to it for my normal trading. I have to say I really like the NT8 new features, fit and finish. Its a vast improvement over NT7.

Problem is for anything other than one simple chart of one intrument it seems to have a lot of issues ranging from graphics quirks to total crashes. There are strange results in scripting as well. My conclusion is that it is not really ready for heavy duty use which is too bad since I've become kind of hooked on it, its so much better than NT7.

What have other users experienced with NT8? Do you trust it well enough to trade with it? I am talking about more hard core use with custom scripts and such. Just wondering what other peoples experience is or if its just me having issues with it.

I have converted my trading to 8... SIM22 (really bright guy) and I developed some cleanup utilities that really make it run very reliable and responsive. There are still a few quirks, but Ninja is taking care of what is reports. SIM22 posted his file that cleans the cache only. My bat file deletes both cache data sets and deletes both sets of day, minute and tick data. I run the batch file every time I shut down, so a clean startup. It refreshes data on connect. My biggest concern is converting a few of my private indies over from 7.

Bob

just how successful
are you in your conversion
of private indis toward nt8?

am facing similar predicament at the moment.