Tag Archives: NinjaTrader

255 times faster then NinjaTrader strategy optimization

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

After investigating a number of alternatives (one, two, three) to NinjaTrader, I ended up implementing my strategy as a COM plug-in to DTLink’s Personal Stock Screener, and found that I can run through the equivalent strategy optimization, as in NinjaTrader, … Continue reading →

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CoolTrade, QuoteTracker, Personal Stock Streamer, and Sierra Chart

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

Since opentick isn’t currently accepting new users I’ve been looking into other free and easy ways of getting historical and real-time data to feed a strategy written in C++ against TA-Lib. CoolTrade CoolTrade is another trading platform. This one carries … Continue reading →

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NinjaTrader hangs and crashes

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

After installing NinjaTrader on my secondary machine, which isn’t as beefy as my primary machine, the first optimization run hung, and the second two attempts both silently crashed (i.e. NinjaTrader just disappeared). I had the task manager up for all … Continue reading →

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NinjaTrader excessive memory usage

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

Yesterday I started running into problems with NinjaTrader not completing optimization runs. After several tries, including after closing down re-opening the app, I started monitoring the app more closely and the first thing I noticed was that it was consuming … Continue reading →

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NinjaTrader Strategy Backtesting and Optimization

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

NinjaTrader’s support for strategies is definitely superior to that of StrategyDesk. NinjaTrader allows strategies to control the number of shares bought and sold, so it can be setup to roll profits into the next trade for backtesting (you could do … Continue reading →

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Resolver One and NinjaTrader integration

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

On my last post, it was commented that “If NinjaTrader could be used with Resolver One… now that would be awesome…”. I had never heard of Resolver One previously, so I took a quick look to see what it was. … Continue reading →

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StrategyDesk, QuoteTracker, NinjaTrader, and opentick

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

A week ago I took an interest in the technical analysis of stock price movement trends. On Wednesday I started thinking I should take the profits from the gold and uranium mining shares bought a few weeks earlier, but I … Continue reading →

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