I'm doing a trial of NinjaTrader with DTN:IQFeed data. So far I'm liking it and this would save me about $600/year over eSignal pricing. If anyone has anything they don't like about Ninja or IQFeed, I'd love to hear it.
Net breakdown (contracts traded):
ZS $1559(8)
ZS $1559(8)
| RESULTS FOR DAY | |
|---|---|
| Contracts: | 8 |
| Net $P/L: | 1559 |
| Wins: | 1 |
| Losses: | 0 |
| Win%: | 100 |
| Avg$Win: | 1559 |
| Avg$Loss: | 0 |
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The whole data feed and platform issue has been beat to death at Big Mike's. You'll find plenty of Ninja haters over there (most legitimate) and plenty of DTN lovers (most legitimate).
ReplyDeleteThanks for executive summary Sandy. lol
ReplyDeleteI guess everyone has an opinion...here's mine.
ReplyDeleteI use the Ninja and IQFeed combo and I love it.
For being free (the way I use it), my experience with Ninja and the support on the forum has been exceptional. And if I want to modify an indicator or do something a little unusual, it's pretty easy to find someone who's already done it, or modify something that's close.
As far as DTN.IQ goes, their sales, support, and data service are second to none (again, in my experience).
If you have any problems with this combination, let me know before becoming a hater of it. ;)
BTW, make sure you take advantage of the CME fee waiver through DTN if you're not already.
-AT
Thanks for opinion AT (and I do have the CME fee waiver in place). Yeah so far I agree with you. I don't see any downside, yet, to using Ninja. And IQFeed having a couple more months of tick data than eSignal is a big plus too!
ReplyDeleteIQFeed is really good for retail, but the data is latent because I think their data goes through Nebraska over a long haul line and then spit back to wherever you may be. So whatever comes out of NY, you're looking at, what, maybe ~30milliseconds before it even gets out of their Nebraska data center. I don't know about Chicago data, but for your purposes it's probably fast enough.
ReplyDeleteAs for NinjaTrader, I think for you it's a good place to start to branch out and start automating and back-testing. C# is a very friendly programming language. I don't use it because I find the API clunkier than just programming to broker APIs directly.