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Okay, but then I suspect to benchmark in the way you are thinking you would need to have everyone with exactly the same number of charts, indicators, data feed, etc. as - the way I understand it - NT8 can be sensitive in terms of performance according to how much stuff you have loaded.
Performance is of interest, but round trip time to the brokerage can put a bottleneck in place that makes your workstation performance irrelevant.
Mine's about 17 ms. I use the Ninjatrader Brokerage and am about 100 miles from their servers in Chicago. If I set up a straddle when a report's about to come out, same strategy using Sim101 and using my live account, the Sim account almost always makes 10-20 ticks. Live account almost always doesn't get filled at all.
My computer uses 64-bit Win 10, has 32GB of RAM and a 3.8GHz Quad-core processor. I routinely have 13 NT windows open, with 9 having charts, usually with 3 instruments. Most have few indicators, but some have several on each instrument, including a relative volume indicator that's constantly averaging the current minute's volume over the last 60 days. All that going on and it is very responsive, even running backtesting in a Strategy Analyzer window. No slowing down, except if I load volume footprints, and even then only when the chart is first being drawn.
