However, when I try to replay this data, the chart does not start shifting (ticking). The replay mode is, of course, set to Historical.
When I change the date or time using the replay tool, the chart always shifts to the place I want, but playback never starts.
I’m using tick data, so I have no idea where the problem could be. During import, I also created minute and daily data from it. Therefore, NT should have everything it needs for playback.
Do you have any ideas where I might be going wrong?
Did you download this data from somewhere else, or did you download the data from Ninjatrader?
If you downloaded this data from somewhere else, playback will not work. At least that is my personal experience. I downloaded data from another website to import. I can make charts and apply any indicator. Everything works, but replay does not work. Replay seems to work only with data downloaded by NT. Replay does apparently not recognize data that is not imported by Ninjatrader.
You can download EUR/USD from the futures contracts M6E, and then it will work.
There is somewhere a compatibility problem. When you take “external data”, everything works except the playback option. When NT8 has not enough data in its original data files, you need to “reload all historical data” to solve the problem of lack of data. I think that the “reload all historical data” does not work on the data you added from an external source. That’s why you have to find original data from NT8 and import that data.
The only option is to take the futures data M6E and used it. Your imported data will never work with playback.
Maybe check in NinjaTrader8/db/tick if you see a file with your tick data.
Hey mark, thankyou so much for replying. I did that, uploaded 1 min data , but I am unable to replay it. Can you please help ?
I am attaching few pics.
I gave the symbol name “GOLDONDA” .
Now when I try to run playback from connection (while selecting Historical data) the chart vanishes.
But when I switch it to Market Replay , I can see the charts.
and when I click on start date I can see only 2 recent dates, which I havent uploaded data of , I only uploaded 1 min data from 2 Jan 2026 to 17 Jan 2026, but in that start date it is showing 26 Jan and 27 Jan.
The first thing I would do is not change the name of the item, but use the name that NT uses.
GOLDONDA does not exist in the default list of NT8.
Download again with the original name and see what happens.
If you use a non existing name you should first add it to the instrument list. If not NT8 does not know where to put/link the data to.
Using a google drive is maybe a problem. I only use the default locations that NT uses for installing anything. And I can replay with historical data as well as with market replay data without any problem.
You can paste this screenshot into Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude and they will answer your questions and help you learn what you’re doing wrong. You’re working on an esoteric path, and while there are a lot of nice people that could help you on here, realize that you’re asking for their time away from family and their own lives.
I took your screenshot and and your question and put it into Gemini and it gave me a very good response in understanding the problem, you can do the same.
