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Has anyone experienced Ninjatrader slowing down their PC clock? Mine runs slow whenever the market is busy. I replaced the battery but that didn't help. This computer is only used for trading. I use a different one for charting.
After suffering for months of having my trade markers be 1-2 bars off, I finally found the cause (thanks to Ninjatrader support who analyzed my log files).
My PC clock runs slow. Very slow.
Windows vista will update the clock once a day, that's …
I've coded up a Strategy that (in theory) checks the timestamps from the exchange and compares it to your PC time. If they are out of whack more then 3 seconds, you get an alert.
This comes from some ideas I've been reading about regarding …
Have a look at the news indicators of @roonius and @j0hnth0m. I think one of them has an alarm feature integrated.
Market open and close could be easily coded, if you use an appropriate session template. It takes less than five minutes to code an indicator, which catches the session breaks and alerts you some minutes earlier, so you won't miss them.
and a time sync program called Dimension 4 to ensure time is correct. You can set it to sync as often as you want and choose the time server. Thinking Man Software - Dimension 4 v5.0
This seems to be working well and does exactly what I want.
Hope this helps someone looking for the same thing.
