Zen Fire data feed in fast market

Quote from slacker:

Given the same internet connection, only trading 4 instruments, how much better is ZenFire over InteractiveBrokers? Is the difference between ZenFire and IB noticable if trading only a few markets? Or, is the difference only hype?
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Depends.

* If you want reliable T&S - IB is out.
* If you do tick charts, IB is out.

Otherwise it is fine.
 
Quote from slapshot:

My personal experience with trading both of them live is that they are very comparable. The supposed Zen 'advantage' is unbundled ticks, you see the actual individual prints a little better. It SEEMS faster. IB groups them up slightly so you see bigger block prints. It SEEMS slower.


slapshot has it exactly right - it SEEMs slower but it is not. It is an optical illusion. Because they are unbundled ticks the data appears faster. Unless you are some black box trader that needs every tick bundled data is just as good and maybe faster (i.e. less to process). The retail traders on Ninja Zen-Fire most likely do not need the unbundled data. Save yourself some money and go with IB or OEC.
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Use common sense.

The previous poster is right...


EXCEPT when you have ANY analysis running that relies on per tick resolution.

Note that this not necessarily is uncommon - Range charts (rare), but mostly Tick charts or Volume charts simply NEED per tick data input or they are screwed.

Not that important when you have large ones (4000 ticks), but if you run 89 tick charts, the aggregation CAN skew the charts.

Btw., you guys wont believe how much data runs through an exchange ;) I am starting recording complete exchange feeds and it is tremendous.
 
i've been sim trading the 6E - Euro fx and in the listed thread made a comparison
between trading the fx eurusd vs 6E during the previous NFP release, often having
the most volatile trading release reactions

'news trading' is very attractive to some since there can be large price moves if
you can get your trade on, something that's very difficult trading via an fx broker

filtered ticks not only have a visual difference and apparent slow/fast difference
there's also a real difference when trading and i wonder if IB's feed and order entry
sw would result in differences in fills vs NTZF

10 tick chart from thread attached
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=172655
 

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Quote from Truff:

$3.85 per round turn all in for all contracts, not just after my first 500.
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That is pretty darn close to what I pay with Zen/Ninja for all contracts as well - so there apparently isn't any significant cost difference between the two setups.
 
Today has seemed particularly bad with the zf/nt set-up (between the 10am news and 10:30a).

Lots of pauses, although I did get filled on some standing orders, while the pauses were happening.

I'm thinking it is a combination of my CPU and video cards?
 
Video hard hardly. Ninja does not a lot that requires video power those days. VIdeo cards are really fast.

CPU most likely, plus RAM maybe.
 
Quote from NetTecture:

Video hard hardly. Ninja does not a lot that requires video power those days. VIdeo cards are really fast.

CPU most likely, plus RAM maybe.
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It is the CPU then, spiked into the 90% area while memory usage stayed at around half of max.
 
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