any recommendation for free real-time charting software that work with IB???

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Quote from LeeD:

It's because Ninja honestly loads the charct every time. On the other hand, MC saves the loaded history and keeps tracking the symbol so that when you want to see the chart again it already has the data.

To clarify..

- NinjaTrader caches data locally thus future recall is quick
- While connected, NinjaTrader does load the current day's historical data to ensure that there is no missing data --> Likely the delay the OP was referring to
- If you wish to keep tracking a symbol like MC does, what one can do is open a Market Analyzer window, add a single indicator column (like a SMA for a 60 minute series) add the symbols that need to be tracked.
- Then even if a chart is closed for a symbol, the chart will load instantly in the future since the symbol tracking is maintained by the Market Analyzer

 

[fullautotrading]

Quote from adamchubb:

i'm looking for some free charting software that can work with IB data feed. is there any recommendation????

Check out also mine:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3193288#post3193288

Tom

 

[tomahawk]

Quote from tomahawk:

Not to totally hijack this thread (apologies), but I just opened up my IB charts and the grid problem has been fixed for the moment. The true test will be tomorrow morning, but if things hold up, I will definitely give kudos to IB for fixing this problem so quickly, even though it shouldn't have cropped up in the first place.

Charts worked correctly today. Thanks IB for the 1-day fix.

 

[stock777]

Quote from uexkuell:

No.

This is because NinjaTrader refuses to make an effort to include the feature in the program.

E.g. 1 sec backfill (which is supplied by IB) can very well be used to reconstruct constant volume bars.
This can be seen in QuoteTracker which does it for ages.

The problem is just that NinjaTrader is obviously not prepared to satisfy needs of IB customers.

I recall saying this before. There is no excuse to not to provide Volume bars with IB's data. At worst it would be 99.999% accurate vs single tick data.

totally bogus and ridiculous.

The problem seems to be not enough NT traders have demanded it. Their excuse seems quite lame, maybe the code they use is not flexible enough to handle 1 minute bars on back fill to create vol charts. QT gets 1 minute data from them, and the charts are good enough. If you grabbed 15 sec data, the chart would be indistinguishable from a full tick chart

They should write a new module for IB users in that case. A real deal breaker not having volume charts.