Chart data

TradeScope draws its price charts from the 1-minute data NinjaTrader has already downloaded to your PC. It keeps its own copy, so a chart stays available even after NinjaTrader or your data provider removes the old data.

What the charts show

• Candles are built from 1-minute data. The 5m, 15m and 1h buttons combine those minutes into bigger bars.
• Tick, range, Renko and volume charts aren’t available. If you trade those, attach your own screenshots.
• Around a contract roll, a trade is charted on the contract it was actually traded on.
• If a micro has no data but its full-size sibling does, TradeScope uses the sibling, for example NQ for MNQ. The prices are the same.

When a chart is empty

You’ll see No minute data for this trade’s day, naming the exact contract, such as MGC 02-26. That means NinjaTrader never downloaded minute data for that day. The Execution Timeline still replays from your fills, just without candles.

Finding every gap

Go to Settings → Diagnostics → Chart data coverage. It lists each contract that has missing days, how many days are chartable and missing, and how far back NinjaTrader needs to load. When everything is covered, it says Every trading day in your history has chart data.

Every empty chart also has an Open chart data coverage button that takes you there.

Filling a gap in NinjaTrader

1. In NinjaTrader, open a chart with New → Chart.
2. Click the chart and type the contract name shown in TradeScope, for example MGC 02-26.
3. Right-click and open Data Series. Set Type to Minute, the value to 1, and Days to load to the number shown in TradeScope.
4. Let the chart finish loading, then click Refresh in TradeScope’s coverage screen.

TradeScope keeps the data permanently from then on. If the chart won’t load the old days, try Reload All Historical Data on the chart, or Control Center → Tools → Historical Data → Download.

Some data providers only keep a limited history, so very old days may not be available anywhere.