Historical

Definition

Indicates if the NinjaScript object is running on historical data. With a strategy, when running a backtest, this property will always return true. When running a live strategy, this property will be true until the strategy starts processing real-time data. The property can be of value for many different applications.

1. Filtering out historical data for real-time strategies that does not require any historical data to initialize.

Property Value

This property returns true if the strategy is running on historical data; otherwise, false.

Syntax

Historical

Property Of

Custom Indicator, Custom Strategy

Examples

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
    // Only run on real-time data
    if (Historical)
       return;
}