With all due respect to my friend blowinsky,
I think it's important to point out to anyone not aware of the fact that anyone who is Russian is extremely bent on multicharts, because Multicharts is developed by a Russian-only group (understandable) I wouldn't of commented on this other than blowinsky was condemning CQG, Zenfire AND Kinetik. I have no experience with Kinetik, however I am aware of firms that use CQG and Zenfire AND the historical data with them.
I have my negative opinions about ninja trader, related to support and strategy analyzer - however overall it is positive and definitely better than any other retail platform I have used (including esignal, sierracharts, multicharts, lightspeed). In fact the charting of N T is superior to others, considering the multitude of volume tick and time charts. There are also many add in charts by users who actually know what they are doing when programming (no offense to the younger NT developers and software managers).
I would recommend anyone into retail trading to try the Ninja download if they have not already - try the charts, the strategy analyzer, and then move on after a few minutes..... it is worth while to become familiar with as many platforms as possible so you can save yourself lots of pain and gain tools in the future. imo.
Bottom line.....cqg - zenfire are rock solid reliable. I dont know why B would say otherwise....sad to mislead others. If you want to use kinetik, fine, I have no reason to believe it's bad.
cheers