BloodHound can analyze other timeframes, and other instruments, besides the chart it runs on. For example, your rules might use a larger timeframe for the overall trend.
Each extra Data Series is called a Chart in BloodHound, and any solver can be assigned to any Chart. Here, timeframe and Chart mean the same thing.
Adding timeframes (Charts)
In the Solvers panel, click Chart, then set it up in the Property Inspector.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Instrument List | Which NinjaTrader instrument list the Instrument menu offers. |
| Instrument | Optional. Leave it empty for a second timeframe of the same instrument as the Default Timeframe. Only choose an instrument to use a different one. For futures left empty, the contract month always follows the Default Timeframe’s, so rolling the chart over rolls this too; a different futures instrument you choose won’t roll over by itself. |
| Period | The same settings as NinjaTrader’s Data Series window (bar type and period). |
Using Charts
Move a solver to a Chart with the Up and Down buttons in the Solvers panel, or choose the Chart when you create the solver. A solver under a Chart reads that Chart’s data: its indicators run on it, and its prices come from it.
Default Timeframe, always at the top of the Solvers panel, is the chart BloodHound is running on. For example, with BloodHound on a 1000 Tick chart, a Bar Length solver under Default Timeframe measures the 1000 Tick bars; under a 5 Minute Chart it measures the 5 minute bars, and solvers there that use an indicator get it calculated on 5 minute data.
Charts load internally when BloodHound starts or reloads, once NinjaTrader has loaded the data. No new chart window opens (NinjaTrader doesn’t allow that); open one yourself to see the data. Most custom (non-NinjaTrader) bar types work, but some may not.
Comparing one timeframe with another
A solver with two inputs, such as Comparison or Crossover, runs both inputs on its Chart: Input A and Input B can’t be on different timeframes. To compare a 1 minute SMA with a 15 minute SMA while BloodHound runs on a 1 minute chart, use the regular SMA for Input A and, for Input B, a custom indicator that always calculates the 15 minute SMA whatever chart it is on.
Tick Replay
BloodHound itself follows NinjaTrader’s Tick Replay guidelines.
Systems using standard NinjaTrader indicators (such as Order Flow Cumulative Delta, VWAP, ATR, CCI, Current Day OHL, Darvas, Fisher Transform and Parabolic SAR) have been tested on different bar types and Calculate settings and calculate correctly. Third-party indicators are less certain: their authors may have tested them with Tick Replay on a chart, but probably not running inside another indicator, as they do in BloodHound.
Video
From the Getting Started video series.