Starting with version 4.9.7
(to be released early 2008), APS will be able to read directly the ascii text format used by NinjaTrader to export historical data. You can use the ascii text files exported from NinjaTrader with APS v4.9.3
but you must replace the semicolon used as a data delimiter with a comma. One way of doing that is by opening the data file in Wordpad (do not use Notepad as it takes very long to replace
characters) and replace all ";" with ",". The complete steps are outlined below:Step1: Data export from NinjaTrader:
(1) Click Tools, select Historical data
and then click Export.
(2) Select the Instrument to export historical data for and the Data series starting and ending date
(3) Click OK and then select the data directory and file name
(4) Click Save to export the historical data
Step 2: Change the historical data format to APS format (starting with APS v4.9.7 this step will not be required)
(1) Run Wordpad
(2) Open the NinJaTrader text file you saved. Make sure you select Text Document as the "File or type"
(3) Click Edit and select Replace
(4) In the Find
what field type ;
(5) In the Replace with field type ,
(6) Click Replace All followed by OK and Cancel
(7) Click File and select
Save to save the file.
Now you can use the text file in APS to search or scan for patterns.
