Trading STW or K200 thru IB? what chart software?

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pkts

I'm looking to start trading the STW or K200 thru IB. I was wondering what chart setup guys are using. I use Tradestation for my charting when trading the ES etc but that won't work for STW or K200. Looking into using quotetracker but it seems I can't see more than 2 days worth of intra day (the chart period doesn't go past 2 days on the drop down box)

I imagine I'll have to pay for a chart program but wanted to do bare bones until I see whether I like how the instruments trade.

Thanks!
 
You can use NinjaTrader for free to do your charting. That's what I did when I traded STW. The only limitations will be on IB's data feed (which sucks rocks in my eyes now that I'm used to ZenFire... alas, ZenFire is not available for Asian exchanges.)
 
Thanks filter,

I'm looking into Ninja. I noticed that the STW is not in their instrument list and I'm having to add it in and now it's asking for the symbol map attributes. Do you remember having to write all this in?

Thanks!
 
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Thanks filter,

I'm looking into Ninja. I noticed that the STW is not in their instrument list and I'm having to add it in and now it's asking for the symbol map attributes. Do you remember having to write all this in?

Thanks!
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Yep, you get used to it. Just take a look at some of the instruments you already know well (like ES perhaps) to figure out what data goes where. When filling out the symbol map section, you only need to fill out the Interactive Brokers line.
 
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