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I currently have a manual strategy that I use where every day I pick a different stock and day trade that. I've had some good success and I would like to implement this in NinjaTrader / MultiCharts / whatever with code.
In the simplest form, it would be great if I could just have a text file with a ticker symbols next to the date to trade it on. And the platform would trade that symbol on that date.
What I would love, is if I could backtest this text file against all the different symbols.
Is this possible? What would be the best platform?
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I'm an experienced engineer, but new to NJ/MC/TS. And NinjaTrader seems to want all the symbols pre-defined up front in the initialize() function. And even if I pre-defined them there, I'd imagine it would take up a bit more CPU as it's going to send me data for each symbol on each tick, right?
I want to write a strategy that I can easily backtest against a large number of symbols on different days. So I have a text file / db like this:
12/01 TSLA
12/02 AMD
12/03 V
12/04 Z
etc... Possibly with hundreds of items.
Then I can manipulate my strategy and run it against my long list of dates and symbols and it will come out with my profits/loss. Is there a platform that best supports this kind of thing?
