Chart Freeze

[Faspomy]

I am attaching a pic of a chart. It ran for approximately 40 minutes. The chart ceased upon displaying the incorrect time (notice 12:44, instead of 11:44). The chart has not refreshed or drawn a new bar in over 20 minutes (it is a 1 minute chart).

Is there any method for alleviating chart freeze ? (more ram, etc. ?)

[Faspomy]

pic attached :)

[NinjaTrader_RJ]

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

What data feed provider are you connected to?

Does the data appear when you right click and select "Reload historical data?"

[Faspomy]

Thank you.

GAIN with NT servers. I'm using NT on a MacPro with Parallels.

I closed the window and opened another, and it shows the new data correctly. However, it disabled my Strategy from buying/selling further.

I will start a new window with the strategy again and try the technique you mentioned if/when it freezes again.

[Faspomy]

Is there any way to ensure that my strategy will continue to run, uninterrupted, until manually canceled ?

[NinjaTrader_RJ]

Your strategy should not be cancelled until you cancell it.

Please tell me what happens to canclell your strategy.

[Faspomy]

RJ,

When the chart froze (as shown earlier), buys and sells also were frozen. The strategy was still running in the strategies tab, but when I opened another chart, it did not appear to have bought and sold at the proper times. I removed the strategy--- possibly prematurely, and restarted it again in another chart.

Parallels is running Windows XP SP2 with less than 1 gig of RAM, so that may have caused the freeze. I have minimized other windows and other applications to maximize RAM resources for NT. I am also installing Windows XP on another drive, without Parallels, to use >1 gig of RAM.

[Faspomy]

RJ,

it happened again.

The chart was running a strategy.
I closed the chart, and the strategy was closed automatically when the chart was closed.

when I tried to reload historical data, NT prompted me and said it would need to close the strategy.

how do I avoid closing/reloading the strategy if the chart freezes ?


thanks.

[NinjaTrader_RJ]

You must leave your chart open. Strategies will stop if you close the chart. You can run the strategy from the strategies tab if you don't wish to use a chart.

Your issue is the 1 gig of RAM. This is not nearly enough as the minimum requirement is 2gigs.

[Faspomy]

RJ,

thank you.
I just ordered 4 gigs of ram for this Mac Pro.

Is NinjaTrader a 64 bit application ?

[NinjaTrader_RJ]

Hello,

Unfortunately a 64 bit OS is NOT supported.


Minimum PC Requirements
Windows XP or Windows Vista Operating System *
Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768
Minimum P4 Processor or higher
1GB RAM or higher on XP and 2GB or higher on Vista
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (pre-installed on most PCs or can
be downloaded below)* 64 Bit OS is not currently supported