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Personally, I find the IB margins a tad too high for futures. When the ES/S&P500 was 2000 points lower, their day trading margins were more appropriate.

Feel free to disagree regarding that, although you have to admit that it's hard to disagree with something you have 'no idea' about according to yourself. Point is - I'm not overly afraid of intellectual theft with this particular company at the moment, but yes, I wouldn't be comfortable...

Well, for me, what I'm developing isn't an automated strategy, but rather a set of tools that helps me read the market and I already feel I've divulged too much by saying that. It does require discretion, skill, knowledge and brains to use. There's no way a programmer without any market...

I'm just opening up my charts being busy yesterday and wow, that's finally some volatility in the ES. That 44 point downleg even had a 'minor retracement' of 16 points in a few minutes. More than most whole days recently. Was this news related, i.e., Trump?

There's been some development. I got a reply from the CEO with an apology for not answering sooner and telling me he would help out with support during the next project. In fact, I was pissed because I've gotten the impression of being ignored as a not-so-important (i.e., small) customer and...

Understand. Thanks! :) I'll say that for my current application, 90% + is already accomplished. At this point, it's more about optimizing it (it's slow) and possibly creating a better layout/front end. There shouldn't be any major changes with regards to logic or functionality.

Hi, I probably will later tonight as I'm late for work now. Now, budgetary concerns is one thing, but my largest concern is probably sharing my work with others, especially on a forum with traders. I do believe I have some unique ideas and perspectives. Maybe I'm slow, but it's taken me...

Seems like there's mixed opinions on this (i.e., coding being expensive or not). Do you have any experiences using people on Upwork? The thing is that when I first designed this using programmers from Guru, I didn't have a clear vision, but actually got massive help from this company just...

Hi, Thanks. Are you a programmer yourself? You mentioned using a programmer on Upwork...? I prefer not to discuss details publicly, but in summary it's an application which calculates various statistics and metrics according to my discretion and code. It's written in C# and uses Excel.

It's not an indicator in Ninjatrader or anything. The mathematics involved aren't complex, but it's a rather large set of calculations which in sum are complex. You're right that it's complex in my eyes, but that's simply because I'm not a programmer. The time I'd spend learning programming now...

It's not an automated program or algorithm, but merely a set of tools that help me automate cumbersome processes I already do manually. The logic is written for me and it's easy for me to check if things are accurate, although it is of course time consuming initially to make sure things are correct.

So, my programmer is currently completing my upgrade on this project. It's not horrible, but I'm not really satisfied either. I feel the main problem is language barrier and miscommunication. It's hard to communicate the finer points with someone who had to use Google Translate to translate the...

Thanks, @speedo. :)

I'm not aware of the Mirus solution. Does this mean a phone call? I don't feel that's sufficient for day trading. I'd prefer an online alternative to NT where I could quickly liquidate or manage my open positions.

Thanks! Something I find important: The ability to manage trades outside Ninja. As we both know, a software freeze may happen. When I traded through IB, I could manage my trades in TWS if something happened in Ninja (actually, it never did). Do something like that exist for this solution? I...

I find it provoking that NT basically won't allow you to use their platform other than through their own brokerage. I would even pay for a full license if I could use it elsewhere, but obviously that's not an option. That said, I am considering NT/Dorman. But, I'd prefer to hear some more...

Nobody? I was surprised to find that you have virtually no other option than NT Brokerage if you want to use Ninja. Sad. But, I like Ninja and don't like the idea of learning a new platform right now... Can anyone share some experiences here? I read a thread at some other forum and there...

I will later today.

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I'm hearing mixed things about that brokerage... Alternatively, I could chart in Ninja and execute from some other platform. It's just an inconvenience I'd rather avoid. Or maybe it's not as bad as I think...