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Platform: Sierra Charts, Investor RT, Ninja Trader
Broker: VanKar
Trading: NQ
Posts: 520 since Sep 2009
Thanks Given: 583
Thanks Received: 1,248
Mike
This is exactly what I have experienced with ToS. It is a big concern (and when you are in a trade and it happens, it a huge concern). The fear I have, is how many times has it happened and I did not know about it?
Papa15
In fairness, I had never seen it happen before, and it is an Alpha release. From what I understand they are going to beta status soon, but lately my interest has been with SC as I like their chart trader.
Platform: Sierra Charts, Investor RT, Ninja Trader
Broker: VanKar
Trading: NQ
Posts: 520 since Sep 2009
Thanks Given: 583
Thanks Received: 1,248
I just opened an account at Optimus and plan on using Sierra Charts. I am going to be on sim for a few days to get used to it.
I have a couple of questions about trading through SC. Are bracket orders held on my PC, at SC on their server's, or at the broker's servers? How does how its handling of bracket orders differ from NinjaTrader?
I believe the only brokers/feeds (that work with Sierra) that offer server side OCO are IB and OEC. With all the others, the OCO is handled by Sierra on your computer.
I just started using SC ChartDOM. One thing I noticed for both IB and OEC is if you send a limit order with an attached bracket, it sends the limit order only. It sends the bracket after the limit order is filled. So there is a potential danger here if the connection dropped before the limit order is filled.
I am considering Sierra Chart for my charting. Looking through the services that it offers, the one that amazes me is Historical Intraday Futures Data (Backfill Data). Looking at the symbols, it looks like they offer it mostly for stock futures and currencies. What I find amazing is that they have tick by tick data going back to 2006. If I am trading E-Minis, and I want to use market replay with simulator, I have more than 4 1/2 years of tick by tick data.
I don't know of anyone who offers backfill that large. Tradestation tick data goes back 6 months to 1 year. IQFeed is now 4 months. Yet here, for $26 a month, we not only have a highly regarded charting package but a hell of a lot data.
I was looking for tick by tick historical data on CME website. They charge $75 per symbol per month!
This deal seems too good to be true. Can anyone give me feedback on the quality of the backfill data? How well does market replay work with it? I am also curious where it comes from, exchange or some other source (?).
they start collecting data after many users requested it, coming from whichever data feed users use.
ps. the first question a new system use wants to know is do they have any tick data.
The backfill is from Barchart.com, so not the greatest -- but if it's free then you can't argue with that. I think some comparisons of Barchart were made in the big thread here:
I wil try here to do an analysis and comparation on different data feeds and platforms to perfom studies involving bid/ask data, like comulative bid/ask difference or delta bars and footprint like.