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I have been using NT8 daily now for 8 months. It has been a bit rough along the way, no doubt. Once I discovered clearing the cache and data sets before startup part of my daily routine before startup, life has been good. It now runs very stable and has no perceivable lag even in the fastest times in the market (CL Inventory report for instance). I find support to be very good. I am hopeful that they will continue to make advancements so that we do not have to do as much maintenance.
I wrote a small batch file to automatically clear the data and cache sets so it takes about a second to clear the data sets.
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If I'm going to respond honestly I am forced to say this: Ninjatrader is only $1000 a bit more for multi broker, peanuts in this business. I've deleted indicators I bought that cost more than this (crapola) as well as an entire platform. Count it as a business deal that did not work out, your risk, and move on... if NT is not for you. It can't be for everyone, nothing is.
"You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time."
A.L.
I remember this procedure used to make TradeStation much less likely to crash..
So, assuming one has backed up NT8, am I correct in thinking that this is a simple procedure (with the program closed) of going Documents>NinjaTrader 8>db>cache>delete the folders therein (as opposed to only the contents of the folders?) ?
I presently have the following folders in the cache :
Hi JTrade
There are two cache folders as well as day, minute and tick.... I clear them all.... I made the bat file for the entire year so I dont have to worry about the monthly roll of CL. Here is my bat file as a txt file... you can use it as an example for your files... My file structure may be(probably is) different than yours. I use "I" drive rather than C or D....so be careful !!!! It must be run out of the Ninjatrader 8 directory. There are methods to make the bat file more simple. If someone wants to show me how to simplify it, then I am appreciative.
To be clear, by "clear them all", you mean you delete the folders within the cache folders, eg. in my screenshot, I'd simply delete the 4 folders shown (thereby deleting the data contained within them) ? I'd then repeat for the other folders you mention.
I remember this is more or less what I did years ago with TradeStation and it recreated any required sub-folders on startup.
... but the trouble is that it seems this needs to be done every morning before the trading sessions starts
I have set up Metatrader MT4 for my H4 FX charts - frankly, it gives me everything I need - & have just also set up tick charts within MT4. This coming week I am going to see if intraday trading using the (simple) MT4 DOM is workable... (no futures, so will use the Ger30 DAX CFD, a sensible alternative to the DAX Mini Futures contract, FDXM; not available to US traders, I'm afraid).
Dude, you completely missed the point of what I was saying. But thanks. It's about running multiple instances of various algos on a leased VPS server....not running one discretionary trading platform instance on a local machine...which I have full physical control over. But I fully get your point, and you're right about NT8 taking a fair amount of resources.
