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I think the tradable parts of what mzpack offers can be found free online, for example Google TC_BarProfiler. There's other free indicators that further show most if not all that you would get with NT8s volumetric bars.
Thanks for all the comments and chart images for MZpack. They are now running a Black Friday (30% off) sale from Nov 16th to Nov 29th. I have been looking at their products recently along with some other vendors. Still on the fence, but from what I have seen and the price, it is very hard to beat.
The MZpack is great value. I've purchased the footprint and BigTrade only because the NT8 license gives me usable market depth and delta tools.
I will shoot out and thank mk77ch member for his very good Footprint Chart for NT8. I sometimes use it in combination with mzFootprint. Find his indicators here
This will probably sound like I am a salesman for Mzpack, but I assure you ,I am not affiliated with them in any way except as a purchaser/customer.
I have only been using Mzpack for about 1 month at the time that I am responding to this thread.
I found Mzpack when I was shopping around for a heatmap. I was amazed at the number of indicators they have packaged together, at very affordable price:
Heatmap, footprints, volume profile, and market delta. Their heatmap does not compare to Bookmap, but it is great for the $$ paid.
Regarding the tick replay issue - yes, you must use tick replay to use their indicators. This is not an issue with me because I do not need historical data. I use my heatmap to tell me where support & resistance are currently located. I care more about where support & resistance are at now, and don't really care about where it was at in the past.
So I enable tick replay in the data series gui, and I use 1 bar of historical data. This satisfies what the indicators want to see but speeds up the initial time to load.
The initial setup of the indicators have been a bit of an obstacle for me. The defaults are, of course, part of the initial program download, but you will most probably need to tweek them to make them match your particular taste. There is so much versatility built into these indicators that it makes the setup a bit time consuming, but part of the attributes of indicators with a lot of user defined functionality.
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The biggest negative for me is the data required. They recommend using unfiltered data, which I have purchased, but it is costing me $165/mo.
Also, you need a fast computer with adequate RAM to run their tools.
The remainder of my input is the system requirements to run their indicators.
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The performance of NinjaTrader 8 and MZpack indicators depends mainly on the complexity of your charts and intensity of the order flow of your instrument, but not the CPU performance. Note, 1 instrument and 10 instances of indicators will create significantly bigger load on your CPU than 2 instruments and 5 instances of indicators per each instrument.
The minimal system requirements are Intel Core i3/4Gb for 3-5 instances of indicators.
We recommend AMD Ryzen/Intel Core i7 (3.0+ GHz) with 16+ Gb of RAM for up to 8-10 instances of indicators. Note, that other 3rd party or built-in indicators that you might use will create additional load on your machine.
The recommended minimum number of cores is 4. Note, in NinjaTrader 8 single-core performance is more important than the number of cores. So, 4 cores/3.8GHz CPU will have better performance than 8 cores/2.8GHz CPU.
Mz is one of my core go-to indicators. It is amazing for the price. Regarding bookmap I have seen the stop run indicator. Looks like it could be very valuable. Mz has an iceberg indicator as well though. Not sure if it's going to function differently than the stop run indicator or if it's essentially the same thing. Are you using Rithmic for your raw data?