speeding up ninjatrader?

[NinjaCustomer]

Is the slowness after closing the indicators dialog when the chart is redrawing caused mostly by the speed of the computer or the speed of the internet connection?

i.e. if I get the latest computer, would that help speed this part of ninjatrader up?

[Elliott Wave]

A question many are wondering, from lowly single cores with a gig of RAM, to quad cores with 3-4 gigs of RAM...

Before shelling out for a new computer I would personally recommend waiting to see what performance enhancements NT7 will bring, whatever computer you'd buy now would be much cheaper in the spring anyway .

[ctrlbrk]

In my experience it is not the internet connection. I use a network monitor that shows kb/s and the pause/delay when it shows the loading box before displaying the chart shows no internet activity on my end.

But then again that box usually only lasts about 1 second on my system. So I would be inclined to believe it is the speed of your system.

But NT7 will likely improve speed across the board.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

After you clicked Ok or Apply in the Indicator menu, the indicators you added will be calculated. This would consume PC resources.

[NinjaCustomer]

NT is a great piece of software, but if they multi-thread it, that would be awesome. I mean basically all my charts are inaccessible during this time when it is closing that dialog. Not just the chart in question. For a time critical piece of software like live trading software, this is a perplexing design decision.

[ctrlbrk]

They've already said NT7 will be multi-threaded.

[NinjaCustomer]

cool, where can I find info about what will be in NT7?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

We will make announcements regarding NT7 functionality as appropriate.