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Poor Man's Guide to Historical Tick Data for NinjaTrader
This guide covers how to import historical tick data from Sierra Chart into NinjaTrader for cheap.
A 1-month subscription to Sierra Chart, which is sufficient for the purpose of this guide, is ~$40.
Services such as Portara CQG cost ~$800 per instrument (e.g., S&P 500 E-Mini Futures).
Depending on how much data you require, this could save you thousands of dollars.
Exporting Data from Sierra Chart
- Go to Global Settings > Data / Trade Service Settings.
- Make sure Intraday Data Storage Time Unit is set to 1 Tick and that the Maximum Historical Intraday Days to Download for 1-Tick Data is set to a period long enough to download all the data in the contract (doesn't have to be 730 days as shown in the screenshot, 45-60 days should be more than enough).
- Apply All changes.
- Connect to the data feed if not already.
- Go to File > Find Symbol.
- Enter the symbol for the contract you want to download data for.
- Open Intraday Chart, then Close.
- Wait for historical data to download / chart to finish loading.
- Disconnect from the data feed.
- Go to Edit > Export to Intraday Text File.
- Click save and wait on the export to complete.
- Repeat this process for as many contracts as you desire.
Converting Data to NinjaTrader's Expected Format
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Refer to NinjaTrader's documentation on importing tick data for more information about the expected format.
Importing Data into NinjaTrader
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