Hey RedDuke: Do you think NinjaTrader (NT) with a Trading Technology (TT) feed is as fast as your zen-fire feed? I am considering signing up with NT but am wondering if it can handle 50 - 100 ES contracts per trade? X-trader, I know can handle this volume but is it the platform or the data feed provider that handles the volume. If I can get NT with a TT feed, wouldn't that be the same as X-Trader with a TT feed. With NT, you can setup different strategies without having to pay the $ 1250/ month for X-Trader pro ? Any thoughts ? Thanx !!
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Anything better than TT?
- Thread starter Whizo
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Hey RedDuke: Do you think NinjaTrader (NT) with a Trading Technology (TT) feed is as fast as your zen-fire feed? I am considering signing up with NT but am wondering if it can handle 50 - 100 ES contracts per trade? X-trader, I know can handle this volume but is it the platform or the data feed provider that handles the volume. If I can get NT with a TT feed, wouldn't that be the same as X-Trader with a TT feed. With NT, you can setup different strategies without having to pay the $ 1250/ month for X-Trader pro ? Any thoughts ? Thanx !!
Quote from tallpaw:
Hey RedDuke: Do you think NinjaTrader (NT) with a Trading Technology (TT) feed is as fast as your zen-fire feed? I am considering signing up with NT but am wondering if it can handle 50 - 100 ES contracts per trade? X-trader, I know can handle this volume but is it the platform or the data feed provider that handles the volume. If I can get NT with a TT feed, wouldn't that be the same as X-Trader with a TT feed. With NT, you can setup different strategies without having to pay the $ 1250/ month for X-Trader pro ? Any thoughts ? Thanx !!
X-trader and TT are developed by the same company, and in my exprience they work just a fraction (miliseconds) faster that Ninja on TT feed. I have not used zen-fire myself, but people who did say that it is a bit faster then TT.
As far as volume, 50-100 contract no problem on either.
Just keep in mind that the broker who hosts these things is very important. If it is not set up correctly, neither would help in speed.
Regards,
redduke
Chect out http://www.ghco.com as clearing firm.
From my extensive research in this area heres the final results or the best platforms by category:
Spreads- Eccoware Vs X_Trader
Futures scalping - Pats systems PRomark Vs JTRADER Vs X_Trader
Stocks too many to mention, but Thinkorswim for platform beauty, IB (with button trader) for generic stocks and wide range of access to various markets but ask yourself do ou really need such a broad range of markets?
Options: ThinkorSwim (hands down for me the best platform in the world..if only they produced a scalping tool and had access to more exchanges)
Automation and charts Tradestation (limited markets bad cust service)
Charts DTN/IQ (forget e-signals ridiculous prices)
Spreads- Eccoware Vs X_Trader
Futures scalping - Pats systems PRomark Vs JTRADER Vs X_Trader
Stocks too many to mention, but Thinkorswim for platform beauty, IB (with button trader) for generic stocks and wide range of access to various markets but ask yourself do ou really need such a broad range of markets?
Options: ThinkorSwim (hands down for me the best platform in the world..if only they produced a scalping tool and had access to more exchanges)
Automation and charts Tradestation (limited markets bad cust service)
Charts DTN/IQ (forget e-signals ridiculous prices)
Quote from JangoFolly:
Note that in order to use Ninjatrader's static dome you have to pay $0.10 per side for each contract executed through the static dome (TT settlement).
The application defaults to their dynamic dome, which doubles as a headache machine. You contact technical support to get switched over to the static. It's a great interface otherwise.
what is static dome mean ? meaning price will stay in middle and not move off screen and the price levels adjust?
Quote from Paulds11:
From my extensive research in this area heres the final results or the best platforms by category:
Spreads- Eccoware Vs X_Trader
Futures scalping - Pats systems PRomark Vs JTRADER Vs X_Trader
Stocks too many to mention, but Thinkorswim for platform beauty, IB (with button trader) for generic stocks and wide range of access to various markets but ask yourself do ou really need such a broad range of markets?
Options: ThinkorSwim (hands down for me the best platform in the world..if only they produced a scalping tool and had access to more exchanges)
Automation and charts Tradestation (limited markets bad cust service)
Charts DTN/IQ (forget e-signals ridiculous prices)
I've been using Patsystems Promark for 6 months now and having used Eccoware and TT I found this software more to my liking.
Eccoware is a good platform but most clearers stay away from it for some reason, TT is not for me it has an over rated reputation based on what? support is nigh on non-existent and the spreader is a joke.
I moved to GNI Touch and started to use the Promark from Patsystems and I haven't looked back it's very realible and it's Prism(auto-spreader) is very well designed allowing all sorts of protection.
I've just started to use their charts and although I'm quite happy with it, I'm still a bit unsure......it's good for me Momentum, on balance volume, moving average crossovers,Fib's and trendlines, etc but to the real hardcore chartists it may not be what you wish for. It has great hot key functionality and most areas are configurable not to mention the exchange connectivity.
I suggest you try it most companies offer free trials of software including Ecco,CQG, etc. You just have to remember there are good suppliers of trading software other than TT(never stay married to a software)
Spread_Monkey
Quote from Whizo:
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The customizability of the Hammer was great. (I love using hot keys as opposed to point and click trading).
While TT does offer some hot key options, one must use keys as defaulted by TT--hence you cant customize.
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If this is your only gripe with TT this is easy to fix with a either free software or inxepsnive hardware. The software solution is to run a macro on top of the software which will reasign the keys for you the other is to get a customizable keyboard which will let you customize the keyboard, and there are some fancy keyboard out there to do this well.
TP
Is there any broker that offers Ecco paying 'per trade basis' as it happens with Velocity Futures on TT?